Troy Meyer, Principal Assistant Inspector General for Audit, discusses the 2020 Compendium of Open Recommendations with Federal News Network.

Publicly Released: August 11, 2020 This Lead Inspector General (Lead IG) report to the United States Congress is the 11th quarterly report on Operation Pacific Eagle–Philippines (OPE-P), the overseas contingency operation to support the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ (AFP) fight against ISIS–East Asia (ISIS-EA) 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, and covers the period from April 1 through June 30, 2020.

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.

The objective of this evaluation was to determine whether the DoD meets outpatient mental health access to care standards for active duty service members and their families, in accordance with law and applicable DoD policies.

We plan to begin the subject audit in August 2020. The objective of this follow up audit is to determine whether the Army implemented corrective actions identified in Report No. DODIG-2017-095, “U.S. Army's Management of the Heavy Lift VII (HL 7) Commercial Transportation Contract Requirements in the Middle East” June 26, 2017 in the Heavy Lift VIII contracts to improve oversight and performance. We may revise the objective as the audit proceeds, and we will consider suggestions from management for additional or revised objectives.

Publicly Released: August 5, 2020

The objective of this audit was to determine whether the Air Combat Command, Acquisition Management and Integration Center’s (AMIC’s) oversight and management of the Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) Operations and Maintenance Support contract ensured that the contractor complied with required maintenance procedures and performance requirements.

ROMEATRIUS MOSS, 40, a nurse and former Air Force Major stationed at Vance Air Force Base in Enid, Oklahoma, was sentenced today to serve 24 months in prison for health care fraud in which she accepted kickbacks for referring TRICARE beneficiaries to pharmacies furnishing compounded drugs, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing. Moss was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $622,459.00.

In Austin this week, an active duty soldier and a former federal government employee at Camp Mabry admitted to stealing and unlawfully selling more than $1 million worth of items from the military installation in Austin, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash.

Napoleon Crawford, 52, of Mason, was arrested and appeared in U.S. District Court here on July 30 to face charges in a two-count indictment alleging that Crawford has stolen more than $80,000 in Social Security and Department of Defense benefits earned by his father, a retired Navy officer who died in 2016.