Open Recommendations

Develop, implement, and monitor training for the contract management personnel on completing contract closeout completion statements for all contract files.

Develop a process to ensure that all closeout modifications are signed on the same date that the contract action is released in the contract writing system.

Update NRC Form 176A to include the required anti-gag language.

Treasury OIG should confirm if the transactions noted as unsupported expenditures within Aggregate Reporting less than $50,000 can be supported. If support is not provided, Treasury OIG should recoup the funds or request that Bergen County management provide support for replacement expenses, not previously charged, that were eligible during the CRF period of performance. Further, based on Bergen County's responsiveness to Treasury OIG's requests and its ability to provide sufficient documentation and/or replace unsupported transactions charged to the CRF with valid expenditures, we recommend Treasury OIG determine the feasibility of conducting an audit for the Aggregate Reporting less than $50,000…

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We recommend that USAID's Chief Information Officer develop and
implement procedures to document deviations from Agency policy on security control assessments, including acceptance of the risk of such deviations.

We recommend that USAID's Chief Information Officer implement accurate automated dashboards to provide enterprise-wide metrics to inform top management of its information technology risks.

We recommend that USAID's Chief Information Officer establish and implement a process to track the progress of conducting annual reviews and related lessons learned from the implementation of its Information Security Continuous Monitoring Strategy.

We recommend that USAID's Chief Information Officer update the
event logging checklist to include details of event logging level 3 (advanced) applicability and implement requirements as specified by Office of Management and Budget Memorandum M-21-31.

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(U) Rec. 1.b: The DoD OIG recommended that the Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research, Development, and Acquisition) direct PMA-231 to evaluate all unresolved operational test deficiencies, determine whether action was taken to correct the deficiencies, and if not, determine if the deficiencies should stay unresolved. If the deficiencies should be resolved, develop and implement a plan to correct the deficiencies that impact mission accomplishment. PMA-231 should request that the Operational Test and Evaluation Force, confirm the correction of deficiencies.

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CMS should implement additional safeguards to ensure that remote patient monitoring is used and billed appropriately in Medicare.

CMS should require that remote patient monitoring be ordered and that information about the ordering provider be included on claims and encounter data for remote patient monitoring.

CMS should develop methods to identify what health data are being monitored.

CMS should conduct provider education about billing of remote patient monitoring.

CMS should identify and monitor companies that bill for remote patient monitoring.

1. We recommend that the Department's Senior Agency Official for Geospatial Information coordinate with NOAA and Census to review our test results, determine which missing metadata content is most significant for current users of geospatial data, and develop a plan (with goals and timeframes) to ensure more consistent completion of those fields.