Open Recommendations

Recommendation is not publicly available.

Recommendation is not publicly available.

Establish an appeals process and promptly finalize recovery procedures to include updating the demand letter to provide sufficient recovery and appeals process guidance to grant recipients.

Take immediate action to review the 380 recipients who program officials identified as having a potential improper payment and recover funds.

Ensure program officials enforce the established tier-based process timeline for the 438 recipients who have not responded to SBA’s information requests.

Follow-up with 347 recipients who did not submit their required documents to initiate closeout and take action to recover funds, where necessary.

Establish and implement timeframes for each closeout activity.

Report on the limitations of survey data used to calculate the percentage of recipients that continued or reopened operations in SBA’s next update of the Congressional Budget Justification and Annual Performance Report.

USDA OIG has determined that this recommendation contains sensitive information and will not be publicly released due to privacy concerns.

USDA OIG has determined that this recommendation contains sensitive information and will not be publicly released due to privacy concerns.

We recommend that USAID/Uganda determine the allowability of $61,848 in ineligible questioned costs on pages 12 and 16 of the audit report and recover any amount that is unallowable.

We recommend that USAID/Uganda verify that Makerere University Joint AIDS Program corrects the one instance of material noncompliance detailed on page 27 of the audit report.

We recommend the CBP Commissioner identify and implement a long-term solution to ensure CBP can conduct familial DNA testing when needed.

We recommend the CBP Commissioner update CBP’s standard operating procedures and workflows, to include fraud, family unit indicators, and awareness training, for familial DNA testing (once a solution to familial DNA testing is in place) and distribute the
guidance to all agents and officers at CBP stations and ports of entry.

We recommend the CBP Commissioner develop and implement a mechanism for tracking the number of instances wherein agents and officers offer familial DNA testing, the number of instances wherein aliens refuse testing, and the results of administered
tests.

Ineffective Network Access Controls for Unauthorized Assets (Asset Discovery)

Inadequate Software License Management (Licensing)

Inadequate Management of Unsupported Software Processes (Inventory Asset Management)

Establish internal controls to ensure the Service Standard Directory is updated timely when service changes in specific markets.

Evaluate the reasons for cancellations of freight auction and repetitive highway contract route trips to reduce the associated excess payments for these trips during the post-peak season.

Adjust package processing plans and staffing plans during peak season to ensure full capacity of machines is used to minimize delayed mail volume.

Direct and monitor division management decisions in the offload process during peak season to incorporate strategic factors, such as facility type, resources, and equipment capacity.

Develop a process for clear communication of offloads between all levels of processing and logistics functions.

Reassess the methodology used for surface transportation planning to better estimate surface transportation needs and costs.

Evaluate the reasons for cancellations of freight auction and repetitive highway contract route trips to reduce the associated excess payments for these trips during peak season.