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.

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.

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.

The LB&I Division, SB/SE Division Examination, Criminal Investigation, RAAS, and the Digital Assets Initiative Project Office analyze ************2****************** ***************2****************************** of digital assets.

The LB&I Division, SB/SE Division Examination, RAAS, and the Digital Assets Initiative Project Office leverage data pertaining to ***************2****************** *************************2********************************************** compliance activity.

The LB&I Division, SB/SE Division Examination, Criminal Investigation, RAAS, and the Digital Assets Initiative Project Office develop a compliance plan that includes the use of Form 1099-DA data, case identification, and case selection of digital asset cases.

Resolve key Integrated Financial and Acquisition Management System challenges and ongoing concerns identified by officials from the Office of Acquisition, Logistics, and Construction and the Office of Acquisition and Logistics before further deployment of the acquisition module.

Take immediate action to review 1,818 SVOG awards that we identified as high-risk of potential ineligibility and recover any funds from recipients who did not meet the requirements.

Finalize and implement updated guidance dated April 18, 2024, to terminate the award for unresponsive recipients and initiate actions to recover funds within the stated timeline.

Assess staffing and procedures to ensure post-award reviews are conducted in a prompt manner. Use the results of the assessment to improve processing times to ensure reviews are completed in time to accommodate relevant statute of limitations.

Determine the allowability of $3,098,895 in questioned direct labor costs on pages 6-7 of the audit report and recover any amount that is unallowable.

Require World Vision to develop and implement policies and procedures to periodically record and review time worked and any proportional allocation of the costs for greater accuracy.

Require World Vision to develop and implement policies and procedures to establish a requirement to document the basis of the allocation percentages.

Require World Vision to develop and implement policies and procedures to ensure that management is verifying and documenting the percentage of labor hours that employees charged to awards.

Require World Vision to develop processes and establish controls to ensure each of World Vision offices are submitting the Value-Added-Tax reports by April 16 of the preceding year.