Evaluations

Sept. 28, 2020

Project Announcement: External Peer Review of the Army Audit Agency’s Special Access Program Audits (Project No. D2020-DEV0SO-0044.002)

We will begin the subject external peer reviews in September 2020. The Government Auditing Standards require that an audit organization performing government audits have an appropriate internal quality control system and undergo an external quality control review every three years by an organization that is independent of the organization being reviewed. Our objective is to determine, for the 3-year period ending December 31, 2019, whether the quality control system over Special Access Program audits conducted at the Army Audit Agency was adequate.

Sept. 21, 2020

Project Announcement: Follow-up Evaluation of Report No. DODIG-2019-088, “Evaluation of DoD Efforts to Combat Trafficking in Persons in Kuwait,” June 11, 2019 (Project No. D2020-DEV0PA-0183.000)

We plan to begin the subject follow-up evaluation immediately. The objective of this follow-up evaluation is to determine whether the DoD implemented corrective actions for report recommendations in DODIG-2019-088, “Evaluation of DoD Efforts to Combat Trafficking in Persons in Kuwait,” June 11, 2019.

Sept. 14, 2020

Project Announcement: Evaluation of the DoD's Mitigation of Foreign Suppliers in the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain (Project No. D2020-DEVOPB-0175.000)

We plan to begin our evaluation in September 2020. Our objective is to determine whether the DoD has mitigated the risks of interruptions to the pharmaceutical supply chain, due to the DoD's reliance on foreign suppliers. We will look at the extent of the DoD’s reliance on foreign suppliers, supply chain risk management strategies, pharmaceutical reserves, and pharmaceutical quality assurance programs. We may expand the objective and scope during the course of the evaluation if we find program oversight issues that require immediate management attention. We will also consider suggestions from management on additional or revised objectives for this evaluation.

Sept. 4, 2020

Evaluation of the Air Force’s Certification of Space Launch Vehicles (DODIG-2020-126)

Publicly Released: September 9, 2020

The objective of this evaluation was to determine whether Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) officials complied with the Air Force Launch Services New Entrant Certification Guide (NECG) when certifying the launch system designs for the National Security Space Launch (NSSL) class (formerly known as the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle class) SpaceX Falcon family of launch vehicles. Additionally, during the evaluation we expanded the objective to also determine whether SMC officials applied the design validation approach in the NECG to three other space launch providers’ new entrant launch vehicles that were in development: Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems, United Launch Alliance, and Blue Origin, LLC. During the evaluation, these three launch providers’ certification processes were still in progress.

Sept. 4, 2020

Evaluation of the Department of Defense and Department of Defense Education Activity Responses to Incidents of Serious Juvenile-on-Juvenile Misconduct on Military Installations (DODIG-2020-127)

Publicly Released: September 9, 2020 The objectives of this evaluation were to determine whether the DoD and DoD Education Activity have adequate policies and procedures to respond to incidents of serious juvenile-on-juvenile misconduct, including sexual assault and sexual harassment; and referred serious juvenile-on-juvenile misconduct incidents to DoD law enforcement organizations and military and civilian child advocacy and health services.