Open Recommendations

Embassy Bucharest, in coordination with the Office of the Legal Adviser, should determine whether the reimbursement of the employee association’s concierge fees as official residence expenses is allowable according to Department guidelines and regulations.

Embassy Bucharest should obtain approval for its OpenNet extensions or implement the use of Department enterprise laptops to access OpenNet from the official residences.

We recommend the FAMS Executive Assistant Administrator/Director conduct a risk assessment to quantify and measure the operational impacts when deploying air marshals to the Southwest border.

Rec. 1: The DoD OIG recommended that the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment revise DoD Instruction 4715.19, "Use of Open-Air Burn Pits in Contingency Operations," and Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment Memorandum, "Interim Policy on Solid Waste Disposal Outside the United States," to require operational commanders to report to the appropriate Combatant Commander all open-air burn pits up to 4,000 meters from U.S. personnel living, dining, or work areas, including non-DoD-controlled burn pits disposing of non-DoD-generated waste.

Validating the completion of the Pantex NORESCO ESPC contract termination process.

Enhancing controls to ensure NNSA contract oversight reviews M&V reports and takes appropriate action.

Monitoring when guaranteed savings are not being achieved and correcting any deficiencies.

Implementing an active contract continuity plan for NNSA Contracting Office personnel who have oversight of ESPCs.

Establishing onsite representation from NNSA’s Contracting Office for future ESPCs.

Direct the NNSA’s Office of Partnership and Acquisition Services to exercise necessary oversight over the Contracting Office’s verification and award practices for future ESPCs.

We recommend that Coast Guard’s Cyber Command and Office of Port and Facility Compliance develop and implement a plan of action with established benchmarks for the Cyber Protection Team and the Maritime Cyber Readiness Branch to work with Marine Transportation Security Specialists–Cyber to enhance coordination and to build working relationships with private industry stakeholders.

We recommend that Coast Guard’s Office of Port and Facility Compliance establish standardized cybersecurity training on enforceable authorities.

We recommend that Coast Guard’s Office of Port and Facility Compliance review and determine whether the Marine Transportation Security Specialist–Cyber position description and job series is the correct designation based on the needs of the position.

We recommend that Coast Guard’s Assistant Commandant for Prevention Policy complete and publish cybersecurity-specific regulations providing enforcement authority for facility and vessel inspections.

Assess the administrative impact of the Appropriation Act earmarks and determine and implement all necessary response actions.

Coordinate with the Office of the Chief Financial Officer to ensure that LRP funds are properly accounted for and tracked separately from other McGovern-Dole Program funds for agreements issued in FYs 2021 and 2022. As applicable, remediate or consult with OGC on any potential Antideficiency Act violations noted and, if applicable, include any nonconformance in the agency’s Federal Managers’ Financial Integrity Act Annual Certification Statement.

Analyze whether recipients expended LRP funds exactly as budgeted since FY 2020. If they did not, determine whether the recipients exceeded their LRP budgets, and if so, take appropriate action as needed.

Revise policies and procedures to: (a) review recipients’ advance payment requests and independently identify, calculate, and document whether the requests include rollover amounts; and (b) assess rollover funds by considering and documenting the requests’ merits in accordance with the regulatory requirements.

Analyze the advance payment requests FAS received from FY 2023 to the date of implementation of advance payment review policies and procedures in Recommendation 5, to determine whether the recipients included rollover funds, and follow up as needed.

Review and update FAS’ reimbursement and advance payment tracking system to accurately track recipients’ advance payment requests, including rollover funds.

Revise current agreement closeout policies and procedures to reflect regulatory requirements.

Establish and implement a formalized plan to resolve the historical backlog and close out these agreements.

Analyze whether FAS’ existing closeout process (including the agency’s existing resources and distribution of responsibilities) is effective to meet its objectives, and implement closeout process revisions, if needed, based on the results.

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