Evaluations

June 29, 2020

Project Announcement: External Peer Review of the Defense Finance and Accounting Service Internal Review Audit Organization (Project No. D2020-DEV0SO-0148.000)

We will begin the subject peer review in July 2020. Government Auditing Standards (GAS) require that an audit organization performing audits in accordance with GAS undergo an external peer review every three years by an organization that is independent of the organization being reviewed. Our objective is to determine, for the period ending June 30, 2020, whether the quality control program for the Defense Finance and Accounting Service Internal Review audit organization is designed to provide reasonable assurance that the policies and procedures related to the system of audit quality are suitably designed, operating effectively, and complied with in practice.

June 15, 2020

Project Announcement: Evaluation of Access to DoD Information Technology and Communications During the COVID-19 Pandemic (Project No. D2020.D000CU-0125.000)

We plan to begin the subject evaluation in June 2020. The objective of this evaluation is to determine the extent to which DoD Components provided access to DoD information technology and communications during the COVID-19 pandemic. We may revise the objective as the evaluation proceeds, and we will also consider suggestions from management for additional or revised objectives.

June 11, 2020

Summary Evaluation on External Peer Reviews at the Department of Defense Audit Organizations (DODIG-2020-092)

Publicly Released: June 15, 2020

The objective of this evaluation was to identify and summarize systemic deficiencies reported during the most recent cycle of peer reviews of DoD audit organizations and determine whether improvements were made since the last summary report we issued in Report No. DODIG-2016-031, December 14, 2015. This report covers the most recent cycle of peer review reports on DoD audit organizations issued from April 4, 2017, through January 15, 2020.

June 10, 2020

Evaluation of the Department of Defense Regional Centers for Security Studies (DODIG-2020-090)

Publicly Released: June 12, 2020

The objective of this evaluation was to review the operations and practices of the DoD Regional Centers for Security Studies related to the vetting of foreign faculty, nondisclosure agreements, travel, and the payment of fees for guest lecturers (honoraria). We also determined whether the DoD and the RCs implemented the recommendations from prior Government Accountability Office oversight report to develop measures of effectiveness.

June 3, 2020

Project Announcement: Evaluation of the DoD’s Handling of Incidents of Sexual Assault Against (or Involving) Midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy (Project No. D2020- DEV0SV-0126.000)

In response to congressional inquiries regarding sexual assaults and victim care at the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA), the Office of Inspector General is conducting a series of evaluations of the sexual assault prevention and response programs at the USAFA, United States Military Academy (USMA), and United States Naval Academy (USNA). The first evaluation was the USAFA and documented in our report DODIG-2019-125, September 30, 2019. The second evaluation was the USMA and documented in our report DODIG-2020-073, March 24, 2020.