Publicly released: August 20, 2019 This Lead Inspector General (Lead IG) report to the United States Congress on Operation Freedom’s Sentinel (OFS) is the 17th quarterly report detailing the overseas contingency operation. The report summarizes significant events involving OFS and describes completed, ongoing, and planned Lead IG and partner agency oversight work. This report covers the period from April 1, 2019, to June 30, 2019.

Publicly released: August 13, 2019 This Lead Inspector General (Lead IG) report to the United States Congress is the 7th quarterly report on Operation Pacific Eagle-Philippines (OPE-P), the overseas contingency operation to support the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ fight against ISIS affiliates 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. This report covers the period from April 1, 2019, to June 30, 2019.

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.

Publicly released: August 21, 2019 We determined whether the Army is developing an affordable Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) program that can meet all capability requirements and whether these requirements remain valid and meet current and future warfighter needs. A capability requirement is a capability that an organization needs to fulfill its roles, functions, and missions in current or future operations.

Publicly released: August 20, 2019 We determined whether Government purchase card cardholders under the Air Force Nonappropriated Fund Purchasing Office properly made and documented purchases in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.

Publicly released: August 19, 2019 The objective of this audit was to determine whether the DoD’s planning for and implementation of the Afghan Personnel and Pay System will result in a system that will accurately track and pay Afghan forces.

A black-market arms dealer with a long history of brokering machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and anti-tank armaments – and who was found guilty last year in a scheme to sell and use surface-to-air missiles – has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison.

The Sesolinc Group has agreed pay up to $2.4 million to settle allegations that they supplied defective products and submitted false claims to the Army, Department of Veterans Affairs and General Services Administration.

United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Ambu, Inc. (“Ambu”), will pay $3.3 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations that it manufactured products in China and Malaysia for sale to United States government agencies in violation of the Trade Agreements Act (“TAA”).