Open Recommendations

Rec. 1.c: The DoD OIG recommended that the Secretary of the Air Force update and implement policy or guidance requiring personnel commands to use information about wartime readiness requirements for medical personnel when making assignment decisions and clearly identify how military-civilian partnership assignment locations should be prioritized relative to other assignment locations.

Rec. 2.a: The DoD OIG recommended that the Defense Health Agency Director, in coordination with the Military Departments, develop and implement a plan to determine the capacity of each military treatment facility to meet Military Department-defined assessment requirements for wartime medical readiness.

Rec. 2.b: The DoD OIG recommended that the Defense Health Agency Director, in coordination with the Military Departments, develop and implement a plan to generate a complete registry of military-civilian partnerships.

Rec. 2.c: The DoD OIG recommended that the Defense Health Agency Director, in coordination with the Military Departments, develop and implement a plan to assess the performance of all military-civilian partnerships.

Rec. 3: The DoD OIG recommended that the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs) require the Surgeons General of the Military Departments, in coordination with the Defense Health Agency, to submit an annual evaluation to the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs) on the Departments clinical readiness assessments. The evaluation must, at minimum:
Provide the Departments progress toward implementing its assessment process for wartime clinical readiness.
Provide the data quality and collection issues preventing the Department from accurately measuring adherence to wartime clinical readiness standards.
Provide the percent of medical personnel, by specialty and assignment location, meeting the Departments established…

Embassy Ankara should install outside signage at the public entrances of the three consular facilities at the embassy, Consulate General Istanbul, and Consulate Adana, providing consular information in accordance with Department standards.

Embassy Ankara, in coordination with the Bureau of Consular Affairs and the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations, should provide protection from the elements for consular applicants in accordance with Department standards.

Embassy Ankara, in coordination with the Bureau of Consular Affairs, should ensure appointments for U.S. citizen consular services are made available in Consulate Adana on a regular and predictable basis in accordance with Department standards.

Embassy Ankara should fulfill its support visit schedule in accordance with Mission Trkiye's memorandum of understanding.

Embassy Ankara should submit the hardship differential survey for Consulate Adana in accordance with Department guidelines.

Embassy Ankara should manage its motor vehicle program in accordance with Department standards.

Embassy Ankara should bring its property management program in compliance with Department standards.

Embassy Ankara should bring the mission's furniture and appliance pool program into compliance with Department standards.

Embassy Ankara should comply with Department training standards in the use of powered industrial trucks, such as forklifts, at Consulate General Istanbul.

Embassy Ankara should bring the mission's contract administration program into compliance with Department standards.

Embassy Ankara should bring the mission's purchase card program into compliance with Department guidelines.

Embassy Ankara should conduct acquisition planning in accordance with Department standards.

Embassy Ankara should require Consulate General Istanbul and Consulate Adana to conduct and document annual blanket purchase agreement reviews, in compliance with Department standards.

Embassy Ankara should require the local travel management center for Mission Trkiye to operate in accordance with Department guidelines.

Embassy Ankara should perform and document workplace hazard inspections of its high-risk workplaces in accordance with Department standards.

Embassy Ankara should complete post occupational safety and health officer certifications for all residential and non-residential properties in accordance with Department standards.

Embassy Ankara should request a mission-wide exception to Department fire standards in accordance with Department standards.

Embassy Ankara should implement and practice a confined space management program in accordance with Department standards.

Embassy Ankara should comply with all Department Motor Vehicle Safety Management program standards for chauffeurs and incidental drivers.

Embassy Ankara, in coordination with the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations, should request approval for the construction project at Consulate Adana in accordance with Department standards.