Inspector General Robert P. Storch announced today that the DoD Office of Inspector General (DoD OIG) released the report “Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office’s Artificial Intelligence Services and Governance.” This report is part of a series of oversight work the DoD OIG is conducting focused on the DoD’s use of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

The DoD Office of Inspector General (DoD OIG) released its Independent Auditor’s Reports as part of the DoD’s FY 2024 Agency Financial Report, which includes the Agency-Wide Financial Statements for FY 2024 and FY 2023.

Inspector General Robert P. Storch announced today that the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General (DoD OIG) released its “FY 2025 Top DoD Management and Performance Challenges” and “FY 2025 Oversight Plan.”

On November 15, 2024, the DoD published the DoD FY 2024 Agency Financial Report, including the FY 2024 and FY 2023 Agency-Wide Financial Statements audited by the DoD Office of Inspector General (OIG).

The objective of this evaluation was to determine whether the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) and the Military Services effectively and efficiently accounted for the delivery of Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA) defense items provided to Ukraine in accordance with DoD property book and DSCA security assistance policy. In addition, we assessed whether the Security Assistance Group–Ukraine effectively and efficiently tracked and documented the transfer of PDA items to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

The DoD OIG provides its annual statement on the Top DoD Management and Performance Challenges for Fiscal Year 2025.

Two Florida men were arraigned today on charges relating to their roles in a multimillion-dollar durable medical equipment (DME) and prescription drug health care fraud and kickback scheme, Attorney for the United States Vikas Khanna announced. Nicholas A. Alberino, 61, of Boca Raton, Florida, and his son, Nicholas P. Alberino, 34, of Parkland, Florida, are each charged in a seven-count indictment with conspiracy to commit health care fraud and wire fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to violate the federal Anti-Kickback Statute, and four counts of violating the Anti-Kickback Statute. The defendants were each arraigned today before U.S. District Judge Esther Salas in Newark federal court, and each pleaded not guilty.

Vanessa R. Waldref, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that in the last several months, the office she leads prosecuted several significant cases that protected patients, consumers, and the community from health care fraud.

University of Colorado Health, known as UCHealth and headquartered in Aurora, Colorado, has agreed to pay $23 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act in seeking and receiving payment from federal health care programs for visits to its emergency departments, by falsely coding certain Evaluation & Management (E&M) claims submitted to the Medicare and TRICARE programs.