The Department of Defense Office of Inspector General (DoD OIG) announced today that it released the “Evaluation of Incurred Cost Audits Performed by Non-Federal Auditors for Compliance with Government Auditing Standards.” “Government Auditing Standards are crucial because they ensure the integrity, accountability, and transparency of Government operations,” said IG Storch.

The Department of Defense Office of Inspector General (DoD OIG) announced today that it released the “Audit of the DoD Government Travel Charge Card Program: The Visa IntelliLink Compliance Management System.” The DoD OIG found that the DoD’s Government Travel Charge Card (GTCC) program officials did not effectively use policies, procedures, or the Visa IntelliLink Compliance Management data mining system (VICM system) to identify misuse, abuse, or potential fraud. The Defense Travel Management Office’s (DTMO) implementation and management of the VICM system limited the system’s effectiveness in identifying and assisting reviewers in investigating high-risk GTCC transactions where misuse, abuse, and fraud were more likely.

The Department of Defense Office of Inspector General (DoD OIG) announced today that it released the “Audit of the Army’s Management of Undefinitized Contract Actions Awarded to Provide Ukraine Assistance.”

This management advisory provides recommendations related to the DoD Office of Inspector General’s review of the DoD’s compliance with the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 (FISMA), which we announced on December 11, 2023 (Project No. D2024 D000CP 0043.000). However, the results in this management advisory do not fully represent all the requirements for each metric or the DoD’s overall FISMA rating.

We assessed and summarized the Navy’s efforts to prevent and respond to suicide related incidents on six specific topics, as required by section 599A of the FY 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).

The objective of this evaluation was to determine the roles and processes of DoD leadership prior to the decision to base the U.S. Space Command (USSPACECOM) headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Marc H. Silverman, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that Whitcraft LLC and Berkshire Manufactured Products, Inc. (collectively the “Whitcraft Companies”), have entered into a civil settlement agreement with the United States and have paid $1,317,653.44 to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act when the Whitcraft Companies improperly obtained set-aside contracts reserved for small businesses that they were ineligible to receive.

A Florida-based pharmacy, OHM Pharmacy Services, aka “Benzer,” aka “Auburndale,” has agreed to plead guilty to one count of health care fraud; pay restitution of $82,000; and pay $1,018,000 to resolve False Claims Act violations. According to OHM’s admissions in today’s global resolution of criminal charges and civil claims, the pharmacy dispensed Evzio, one of several naloxone products on the market indicated for use on an emergent basis in the case of opioid overdose.

The owners and operators of a Warwick pain management clinic have been indicted by a federal grand jury on health care fraud charges for allegedly defrauding government and private health care insurers, announced Acting United States Attorney Sara Miron Bloom.