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Rec. 2: The DoD OIG recommended that the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness update DoD Directive 1344.10 to include a requirement for the Services and the National Guard Bureau to provide guidance and training on partisan and nonpartisan political activities to all Service members at least each presidential election year.

Review the two loans in our sample that did not receive appropriate servicing and take administrative actions if appropriate.

(U) Rec. A.1: The DoD OIG recommended that the Commander of the U.S. Army Sustainment Command revalidate the Care of Supplies in Storage requirements in Army Technical Manual 38-470 to determine whether the requirements are operationally realistic and cost effective for Army Prepositioned Stock and revise Army Technical Manual 38-470, as appropriate.

(U) Rec. A.2.a: The DoD OIG recommended that the Executive Director for the Army Contracting Command-Rock Island direct the Procuring Contracting Officer for the Army Prepositioned Stock-5 contract to take action to enforce or relieve the Army Prepositioned Stock-5 contractor of Care of Supplies in Storage requirements based on guidance from the Commander of the Army Sustainment Command's implementation of Recommendation A.1 to revalidate Army Technical Manual 38-470 requirements.

(U) Rec. A.2.b: The DoD OIG recommended that the Executive Director for the Army Contracting Command-Rock Island direct the Procuring Contracting Officer for the Army Prepositioned Stock-5 contract to coordinate with the Army Prepositioned Stock-5 Administrative Contracting Officer and Contracting Officer's Representatives to update surveillance procedures to require Contracting Officer's Representatives to conduct periodic checks of the Global Combat Support System-Army to provide reasonable assurance that all pieces of Army Prepositioned Stock-5 equipment have a correct maintenance service plan listed in the system.

(U) Rec. B.2: The DoD OIG recommended that the Executive Director of the Army Contracting Command-Rock Island request the Defense Contract Audit Agency perform a review of the 50 invoices totaling $133,401,705.89 to verify whether contractor-reported direct and indirect costs were allowable, allocable, and reasonable.

We recommend that the Chief Financial Officer for the Department develop and implement procedures to ensure that thesampling populations of drawdowns are complete for the basis of calculating the improper payment and unknown paymentestimates.

We recommend that the Chief Financial Officer for the Department ensure changes made for the query design concerningthe use of three filters, are implemented in subsequent years for programs that are required to produce an improper paymentestimate.

We recommend that the Chief Financial Officer for the Department, for programs that require them, design and implementimproper payment and unknown payment sampling and estimation plans that are appropriate for the sampling of paymentsbased on accurate sampling populations and result in reliable estimates. The improper payment and unknown paymentsampling and estimation plans should also include language stating why sampling populations in Stage 1 may not matchsampling population in Stage 2 and explain the statistical impact on the estimates.

We recommend that the Chief Financial Officer for the Department implement its quality assurance checklist to ensure theproper details from the drawdown population are accurately included on the extrapolation sheet.

We recommend that the Chief Financial Officer for the Department, in conjunction with the acting Chief Financial Officer forFSA, develop sampling and estimation plans for the Pell and Direct Loan programs that will produce reliable estimates.Specifically, the plan should (a) produce appropriate and accurate confidence intervals around a statistically valid pointestimate; (b) consistent with 31 U.S.C. section 3352(c)(1)(A), produce an estimate that is otherwise appropriate using amethodology approved by the Director of OMB; or (c) consistent with OMB Circular A-123 Appendix C, Part II, B(2), include adetailed explanation as to why it is not possible to produce a statistically-valid point…

(U) Rec. 1.a: The DoD OIG recommended that the DoD Chief Information Officer develop, in coordination with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering and the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, a DoD?wide Supply Chain Risk Management strategy as required by the National Institute of Standards and Technology guidance.

(U) Rec. 1.b: The DoD OIG recommended that the DoD Chief Information Officer develop, in coordination with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering and the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, policies and procedures implementing the DoD-wide Supply Chain Risk Management strategy as required by the National Institute of Standards and Technology guidance, including organizational-wide tools and techniques that allow DoD Components to consistently and effectively manage risks associated with using external providers.

(U) Rec. 1.c: The DoD OIG recommended that the DoD Chief Information Officer determine when DoD Components should complete a privacy impact assessment for information systems and ensure that all DoD guidance, including DoD Instruction 5400.16, "DoD Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) Guidance," July 14, 2015, Incorporating Change 1, August 11, 2017, and the DoD Risk Management Framework Knowledge Service guidance, aligns with that determination.

(U) Rec. 1.d: The DoD OIG recommended that the DoD Chief Information Officer direct DoD Components, in coordination with the Chief Information Security Officers, Chief Information Officers, and Authorizing Officials, to require that officials conduct privacy impact assessments for all non-national security systems and update the Enterprise Mission Assurance Support Service, or its equivalent system, as required by DoD guidance.

(U) Rec. 1.e: The DoD OIG recommended that the DoD Chief Information Officer implement a process, in coordination with the DoD Component Chief Information Security Officers, Chief Information Officers, and Authorizing Officials, such as periodic Enterprise Mission Assurance Support Service reviews, to ensure that officials complete privacy impact assessments for all non-national security systems and update the Enterprise Mission Assurance Support Service, or its equivalent system, as required by DoD guidance.

(U) Rec. 1.a: Report is Classified.

(U) Rec. 2.a: Report is Classified.

(U) Rec. 2.b: Report is Classified.

(U) Rec. 3.b: Report is Classified.

(U) Rec. 4: Report is Classified.

(U) Rec. 4: Report is Classified.

Rec. 1.a: The DoD OIG recommended that the Defense Health Agency Director, in consultation with the Defense Civilian Personnel Advisory Service develop and implement a plan to ensure a more competitive pay rate for nursing and other hard to fill medical positions in all Defense Health Agency regions.

Rec. 1.c: The DoD OIG recommended that the Defense Health Agency Director, in consultation with the Defense Civilian Personnel Advisory Service develop and implement a plan to establish qualification requirements for nursing and other hard to fill medical positions if it is determined that it would enhance the DoD's efforts to help recruit and retain health care personnel.

Rec. 2.a: The DoD OIG recommended that the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, in consultation with the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs and the Defense Health Agency Director determine whether the DoD needs to extend waiving the authority to apply section 3326, title 5, United States Code, for appointments made to positions in medical or health profession with the DoD under the direct hire authority and, if so, provide the extension in a subsequent memo before the authority for covered positions expires on September 30, 2025.