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Publicly Released: November 13, 2019 This Lead Inspector General (Lead IG) report to the United States Congress is the 8th quarterly report on Operation Pacific Eagle-Philippines (OPE-P), the overseas contingency operation to support the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ fight against ISIS affiliates and other terrorist organizations. This report summarizes significant events related to this operation and describes ongoing and planned Lead IG and partner agency oversight work. This report covers the period from July 1, 2019, to September 30, 2019.

The DoD OIG newsletter summarizes the reports and investigations released by the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General in the previous month and those we anticipate releasing in the coming month.

We are announcing the subject evaluation and plan to begin fieldwork in November 2019. This evaluation is a coordinated effort between the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General and the Department of Energy Office of Inspector General.

Publicly Released: November 13, 2019 DODIG-2020-017 transmits Ernst & Young, LLP's Independent Auditor's Reports. DODIG-2020-017 is part of the U.S. Air Force Agency Financial Report and should not be issued without that information.

Publicly Released: November 13, 2019 DODIG-2020-016 transmits Ernst & Young, LLP's Independent Auditor's Reports. DODIG-2020-016 is part of the U.S. Air Force Agency Financial Report and should not be issued without that information. The transmittal begins on page 132.

The Department of Justice has announced that ABS Development Corporation (ABS) has agreed to pay $2.8 million and give up $16 million in potential administrative claims to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by fraudulently obtaining a foreign military sales contract reserved for American companies. ABS, a Delaware corporation based in New York, is a subsidiary of Ashtrom International, Ltd. of Israel.

A criminal complaint was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging surveillance and security equipment company Aventura Technologies, Inc. (Aventura), located in Commack, New York, and seven current and former employees with selling Chinese-made equipment with known cybersecurity vulnerability to government and private customers while falsely representing that the equipment was made in the United States and concealing that the products were manufactured in the People's Republic of China (PRC). Aventura has generated more than $88 million in sales revenue since November 2010, and the charged scheme has been ongoing since 2006.

The Justice Department announced today the formation of the new Procurement Collusion Strike Force (PCSF) focusing on deterring, detecting, investigating and prosecuting antitrust crimes, such as bid-rigging conspiracies and related fraudulent schemes, which undermine competition in government procurement, grant and program funding.