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 final report provides the results of the DoD Office of Inspector General’s external peer review of the Defense Commissary Agency Internal Review (DeCA IR) Office. We previously provided copies of the draft report and requested written comments on the recommendations. We considered management’s comments on the draft report when preparing the final report. These comments are included in the report.

The objective of this audit was to determine whether the Army effectively transitioned the Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor (LTAMDS) program from the rapid prototyping pathway to the major capability acquisition pathway.

The objective of this evaluation was to determine the effectiveness of DoD Component accounting of repair parts provided to the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) and the process for verifying the need for new repair parts requested by the UAF to maintain military equipment provided by the DoD.

A former United States Marine pleaded guilty today in federal court in Springfield, Mass. to submitting a false Purple Heart application to the United States Marine Corps through his local Congressman.

Gerald Congdon, M.D., of Pawleys Island, South Carolina, Gbenga Aluko, M.D., of Charlotte, North Carolina, and Anup Banerjee, M.D., of Gastonia, North Carolina, and their medical practices, as well as Curis Healthcare Inc., of Chicago, Illinois, Omar Hussain, of South Miami, Florida, and Saeed Medical Group Ltd. d/b/a Alliance Immediate and Primary Care, of Chicago, Illinois, agreed to pay a total of $1,913,808 to resolve alleged False Claims Act violations arising from their involvement in laboratory kickback schemes. The parties have agreed to cooperate with the Department of Justice’s investigations of other participants in the alleged schemes.

A New Hampshire man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Portland for conspiring to transport stolen property in interstate commerce and conspiring to sell stolen government property.