Open Recommendations

Develop internal control procedures that help ensure that all prisoner medical requests are entered into Capture and help prevent district office personnel from approving medical claims for payment without proper POD-OMO review and approval support in Capture.

Re-evaluate its auto-approval process to ensure that only medically necessary services are approved within the limits set by USMS policy, especially as it relates to dental services.

Remedy the $33,830 in unallowable medical services identified by the OIG.

Assess the risk associated with the remaining historical costs under this contract to determine if additional recoupment efforts are appropriate and cost beneficial.

Enhance its prisoner medical request and medical claim review training. Specifically, the USMS should : (1) ensure all remaining district office personnel responsible for processing prisoner medical requests and medical claim reviews receive formal training from POD-OMO; (2) revise its procedures to ensure newly assigned prisoner medical request and medical claim review personnel also receive the same training prior to assuming these responsibilities; and (3) provide appropriate medical billing training to help district office personnel more easily match medical services to preauthorization's and identify medical claim deficiencies.

Evaluate the impact on the USMS's core mission and on the efficiency of the provision of medical care to prisoners when assigning Deputy U.S. Marshals to the prisoner medical request process.

Perform an assessment of its prisoner medical request and medical claim review processes and implement a formal strategy that seeks to centralize critical functions where appropriate and considers modernizing elements of these processes to ensure the most effective and efficient administration of this critical program, including electronic processing. Such processing would enable the USMS to employ data analytical tools in its reviews of medical claims, thereby enhancing its controls and identification of problem areas.

Develop a strategy for obtaining and paying for dental care to maximize cost effectiveness. As part of this effort, the USMS should explore cost saving opportunities, including negotiating dental pricing in its contract solicitation or negotiating prices of common dental procedures with dental providers in order to reduce the variance in prices charged to the USMS.

Evaluate the access to care provided to USMS prisoners for dental services and ensure consistent access to care is provided throughout the 95 USMS districts.

Remedy the $7,841 in unallowable dental services identified by the OIG.

Remedy the $748,998 in unsupported costs.

Put to better use the remaining $1,000 in grant funds awarded to CFSS.

Apply appropriate measures to confirm the adequacy of CFSS's accounting and internal control systems prior to making future awards to CFSS to ensure federal funds are safeguarded.

Provide training to ISSPOs, ISOs, and Information Owners on their roles and responsibilities to follow the PBGC RMF and POA&M processes.

Confirm the requirement that deficiencies identified by SPA&A reviews that are not remediated within 30 days after identification are tracked via POA&Ms with accountable personnel.

Periodically monitor the satisfaction of the system risk assessment and POA&M creation requirements to help ensure ongoing compliance associated with the timely completion of and updates to system risk assessments and documentation and tracking of POA&Ms.

We recommend PBGC management to coordinate with its CSP to update its service agreement and shared responsibility matrix to address ambiguities regarding accountable parties for key controls and develop and implement a contingency plan for the system.

Update and track IASA program milestones to improve timeliness and mitigate risk from civil aviation authorities under assessment.

Establish and implement processes to ensure routine upkeep of program documents, including checklists.

Create and implement a process to document when exceptions to the normal IASA in-country assessment process are appropriate and how they should be handled.

Develop and implement a policy to maintain a historical record of all interim and completed Risk Assessment Tools for future trend analyses.

Establish a formal prioritization methodology for new assessments, reassessments, technical assistance, and other duties.

Formalize process of how and when Operations Specifications for foreign air carriers are limited when a risk is identified.

Finalize the proposed changes and related updates to FAA Order 8900.1, Volume 12.

Continue to monitor First Solar’s impact, including through the June 30, 2026 annual Development Outcomes Survey and midpoint performance assessments, to have relevant information for assessing the project’s core impacts and metrics.

We recommend that the Assistant Secretary of the Office of Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development establish
appropriate controls to ensure that transfers of funds and reprogrammings comply with all applicable statutory authority
requirements, including notifying the House and Senate Appropriations Committees when required.

Adjust the ESOC Award Fee Plan to include clear, objective criteria for the Management and Technical Performance, Business Management, Compliance with Safety and Health Requirements evaluation category

Align definitions in the ESOC Award Fee Plan with Federal Acquisition Regulation guidance

Coordinate with an existing NASA supply chain group (e.g., Supply Chain Risk Management Program) to investigate alternative supply chain management strategies, such as evaluating the feasibility of incorporating the Supply Chain Visibility Data Requirement Deliverable into ESOC to increase visibility into spacesuit supply chains.

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This recommendation is Sensitive But Unclassified.

This recommendation is Sensitive But Unclassified.

This recommendation is Sensitive But Unclassified.

This recommendation is Sensitive But Unclassified.

This recommendation is Sensitive But Unclassified.

This recommendation is Sensitive But Unclassified.

This recommendation is Sensitive But Unclassified.

This recommendation is Sensitive But Unclassified.

This recommendation is Sensitive But Unclassified.

This recommendation is Sensitive But Unclassified.

This recommendation is Sensitive But Unclassified.

We recommend the Executive Assistant Commissioner for the Office of Field Operations to enhance the existing process by conducting a documented semiannual review to ensure the daily risk assessments in the cruise ship environment remain effective. This semiannual review should include a thorough review of risk assessment methodologies, data quality, and operation effectiveness.

We recommend the National Incident Command Center Logistics Section coordinate with the Border Patrol and the DOD to identify and document appropriate functions and steps to effectively use DOD support in the “Operation Homeland Resolve Strategic Approach” and the “Departmental migration resource and response plan,” directed by former DHS Secretary Mayorkas in his October 27, 2023, memorandum.

We recommend the Chief, Border Patrol, regularly and continuously refine strategies to incorporate demographic information of aliens approaching the Southwest border in the allocation of Border Patrol facility holding units.

We recommend the National Incident Command Center Logistics Section document the communication and use of resource request tracking tools, such as WebEOC, in the “Operation Homeland Resolve Strategic Approach” and the “Departmental migration resource and response plan.”

We recommend that the NRC complete the implementation of CSF 2.0 requirements, and develop and maintain current and target CSF profiles that anticipate changes in the NRC’s cybersecurity posture.

EXIM OIG recommends the Office of Board-Authorized Finance update its policies and procedures to consider additional documentation on the status of collateral as part of the scheduled or ad hoc credit risk reviews. These updates should include information on inspections or site visits performed as well as the appropriateness of maintaining a one level improvement on the Budget Cost Level.

Establish and implement guidance for performing Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 activities through policies and procedures, including the development of current and target cybersecurity profiles which consider anticipated changes in DOT's cybersecurity posture.

Work with FAA CIO to secure a reliable funding stream for continuous vetting.

Work with FAA CIO to initiate and complete the background investigation of FAA employees in public trust positions.