Inspector General Robert P. Storch announced today that the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General (DoD OIG) released the “Audit of the DoD’s Process for Authorizing Third-Party Organizations to Perform Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification 2.0 Assessments.” The DoD OIG found that the DoD failed to effectively implement the process that authorizes third-party organizations to conduct Level 2 Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) 2.0 assessments. CMMC third-party organizations (C3PAO) must successfully complete a series of 12 requirements before they can be authorized to perform the Level 2 assessments. The Cyber Accreditation Body (AB) manages the third-party organization authorization process to ensure 10 of the 12 requirements are met, while the CMMC Program Management Office and Defense Industrial Base Cybersecurity Assessment Center (DIBCAC) are responsible for ensuring that C3PAO successfully complete the two remaining requirements. Under the CMMC framework, authorized third-party organizations perform these required assessments of DoD contractors that will maintain controlled unclassified information critical to national security on their systems. The assessments help verify contractors’ compliance with federal cybersecurity requirements.

Inspector General Robert P. Storch announced today that the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General (DoD OIG) released the “Audit of Cost Increases and Schedule Delays of Army Military Construction Projects Managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.” This audit aimed to determine why the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) had cost increases or schedule delays in Army military construction projects and what actions USACE took to mitigate future cost increases and schedule delays.

Inspector General Robert P. Storch announced today that the DoD Office of Inspector General (DoD OIG) released the “Management Advisory: Review of the DoD’s Roles and Responsibilities for Facilitating the Delivery of Humanitarian Aid to Gaza Through the Maritime Corridor.”

The objective of this audit was to determine whether the DoD ensured that the process for authorizing third party organizations to perform Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) 2.0 assessments was effectively implemented.

The objective of this audit was to determine why the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) had cost increases or schedule delays for Army military construction (MILCON) projects performed in the continental United States and what actions USACE took to mitigate future cost increases and schedule delays.

This report contains controlled unclassified information and no redacted version is available. To file a Freedom of Information Act Request, please submit a request to FOIA.gov.

The owner of Randy’s Gateway Drug in Cedar Bluff, Virginia, was sentenced recently to 18 months in prison on federal healthcare fraud charges after pleading guilty in May for conduct that caused $1.3 million in losses to the federal government.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio is spearheading a new, interagency Supply Chain Oversight and Procurement Enforcement (SCOPE) Task Force, created in 2024, to ensure supply chain integrity and prevent procurement fraud. The task force will serve to support the work of the Government Supply Chain Investigations Unit (GSCIU), led by the Department of Homeland Security – Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), based in Washington, D.C.

A Vermont company will pay $628,328 to resolve allegations that it sold substandard items to the United States Army, U.S. Attorney Philip Sellinger announced today.