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.

Senior Advisor to the Inspector General, Brett Mansfield and Program Director for Audit, Courtney Fones discuss two new management challenges for FY 2020 with Federal News Network. Click here to listen.

The Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended, requires the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General (DoD OIG) to prepare semiannual reports summarizing its activities for the preceding 6-month period. These semiannual reports are intended to keep the Secretary of Defense and Congress fully informed of significant findings, progress the DoD has made relating to those findings, and recommendations for improvement.

We are reannouncing the subject evaluation, announced November 18, 2019 (attached), to inform you of a change to our project title and objective. The original title was "Evaluation of Medical Resources and Guidance to Trainers at Recruit Training Centers in the DoD." The reannounced title is "Evaluation of Medical Protocols and Deaths of Recruits in the DoD."

Publicly Released- December 5, 2019

The objective of this audit was to determine whether Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) personnel properly purchased aviation critical safety items at the DLA Aviation Supply Chain in accordance with DoD guidance.

Publicly released: December 2, 2019

The objective of this evaluation was to determine whether the actions taken by DoD contracting officers on Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) audit reports that disclaimed an audit opinion complied with the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), DoD Instructions, and agency policy.

Two U.S. citizens residing in Iraq were charged in two separate indictments yesterday for their alleged participation in schemes to defraud Iraqi companies out of millions of dollars by impersonating U.S. officials.

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.