Open Recommendations

Using the strategic plan developed in response to Recommendation 2, establish and maintain comprehensive and meaningful performance metrics, including a mechanism for capturing and evaluating customer feedback, program reach, and active participation, to better assess the value and effectiveness of ViCAP.

USAID's Assistant to the Administrator in the Bureau for Resilience, Environment, and Food Security: Develop and implement a process to ensure that all climate change mitigation activities report complete results on applicable climate change mitigation indicators.

USAID's Assistant to the Administrator in the Bureau for Resilience, Environment, and Food Security: Develop and implement a process to ensure greenhouse gas reduction results are calculated and measured accurately.

USAID's Assistant to the Administrator in the Bureau for Resilience, Environment, and Food Security: Develop and implement a process to report consolidated results on climate change mitigation indicators that can be identified with location data and disaggregated by country, activity, and/or type of effort.

USAID's Assistant to the Administrator in the Bureau for Resilience, Environment, and Food Security: Develop and implement a process for assessing and monitoring performance across climate change mitigation efforts.

USAID's Assistant to the Administrator in the Bureau for Resilience, Environment, and Food Security: Develop and implement a method to communicate consolidated and comprehensive climate change mitigation efforts to internal and external stakeholders.

Develop a cost-benefit analysis to assess whether FAA should reconsider the decision to remove the Data Comm requirement for a two-way interface between TFDM and TDLS.

Evaluate and resolve human factors issues within TFDM to improve how the system provides critical flight information to controllers.

Perform an assessment to determine if more scenario-based exercises are needed to improve future training and if so, implement revised TFDM training.

Review El Paso sector staffing levels, determine staffing requirements, and develop and implement additional strategies for staffing centralized processing centers during migrant surges.

Develop, implement, and regularly monitor quality assurance mechanisms at the Santa Teresa station to ensure compliance with standards related to providing hygiene items, sleeping mats, and medical care to detainees.

Oversee a data integrity review at the El Paso Hardened Facility to verify that staff are accurately recording custodial actions. If the problem we identified persists, implement a quality assurance plan, and continue to monitor data integrity.

We recommend the CISA Chief Information Officer immediately mitigate the control deficiencies or cease operation of the Federal Virtual Training Environment system.

Implement controls to allow for the capability to identify and monitor potential scheduling delays and to ensure family preferences are being met at national cemeteries.

Improve schedule management for charging station construction by using a project management system and related analytics to record dynamic updates, centralize information, and analyze performance to inform future construction baselines.

(U) Rec. 1: Recommendation is Classified.

(U) Rec. 2: Recommendation is Classified.

(U) Rec. 3: Recommendation is Classified.

(U) Rec. 4.a: Recommendation is Classified.

(U) Rec. 4.b: Recommendation is Classified.

(U) Rec. 4.c: Recommendation is Classified.

We recommend that GHC continue to remediate the specific technical weaknesses discovered during this audit as outlined in the vulnerability scan audit inquiry.

We recommend that the Office of Policy work with the Bureau for Africa and missions in sub-Saharan Africa to establish performance goals and measurable targets that missions can use to help the Agency assess its progress toward meeting goals in its efforts to respond to Chinese influence.

Develop and implement adequate procedures to ensure that confirmed EBLL cases, unconfirmed EBLL cases, and environmental investigations are reported to HUD.

Develop and implement adequate procedures and controls to ensure that environmental investigations are completed when required.

Perform a search for historical documentation to support the lead-free status of the 15 units and the associated developments. If adequate documentation is not found to support that all lead-based paint was identified and abated and clearance was achieved as required, the Authority should complete a lead-based paint inspection of the developments to determine whether they are lead free.

Develop a quality control process to ensure that records for the remaining 1,385 units contain evidence of lead-free status. If adequate documentation is not found to support that all lead-based paint was identified and abated and clearance was achieved as required, the Authority should complete a lead-based paint inspection of the developments to determine whether they are lead free.

Implement procedures that align with HUD's requirements and controls to ensure that visual assessments for lead-based paint are completed at least every 12 months.

Implement policies and procedures that align with HUD's requirements and controls to ensure that reevaluations are completed when required.

Implement controls to ensure that accurate lead disclosures are provided to prospective and current tenants.

Work with HUD's Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes to assess whether the lead-based paint inspections and risk assessments with missing elements are sufficient to support the lead-based paint status of the Authority's properties. If it is determined that the lead-based paint and risk assessment reports are not sufficient, HUD should require the Authority to perform new assessments.

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 Assistant Commandant for Prevention Policy complete and publish cybersecurity-specific regulations providing enforcement authority for facility and vessel inspections.

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.