April 21, 2025

Project Announcement: Evaluation of the DoD’s Development and Implementation of Quantum Technologies (Project No. D2025-DEV0SI-0100.000)

The purpose of this memorandum is to notify you that we are initiating the subject evaluation. The objective of this evaluation is to determine the extent to which the DoD complied with section 234 of the FY 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), “Defense Quantum Information Science and Technology Research and Development Program,” as amended by section 214 of the FY 2021 NDAA

April 14, 2025

Project Announcement: Follow-up Evaluation of Longstanding Healthcare-Related Recommendations (Project No. D2025-DEV0HD-0101.000)

The purpose of this memorandum is to notify you that we plan to begin the subject follow-up evaluation in April 2025. The objective of this follow-up evaluation is to assess the extent to which the DoD has taken actions to implement longstanding healthcare-related recommendations issued by the DoD Office of Inspector General.

April 14, 2025

Project Announcement: Evaluation of the Navy’s Future Sailor Preparatory Course (Project No. D2025-DEV0HA-0089.000)

The purpose of this memorandum is to notify you that we are initiating the subject evaluation. The objective of this evaluation is to determine whether the U.S. Navy’s Future Sailor Preparatory Course effectively prepared participants to meet or exceed minimum DoD enlistment standards.

April 7, 2025

Project Announcement: Summary External Peer Review of the Naval Audit Service (Project No. D2025-DEV0SO-0096.000)

The purpose of this memorandum is to notify you that we are initiating the subject external peer review. The Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended, requires the DoD Office of Inspector General to conduct, or approve arrangements for the conduct of, external peer review reviews of DoD agencies in accordance with Generally Accepted Government Auditing Standards (GAGAS).

April 3, 2025

Project Announcement: Evaluation of the Secretary of Defense's Reported Use of a Commercially Available Messaging Application for Official Business (Project No. D2025-DEVOPC-0095.000)

The purpose of this memorandum is to notify you that we are initiating the subject evaluation. We are conducting this evaluation in response to a March 26, 2025 letter I received from the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, requesting that I conduct an inquiry into recent public reporting on the Secretary of Defense's use of an unclassified commercially available messaging application to discuss information pertaining to military actions in Yemen in March 2025.

March 31, 2025

Project Announcement: Assistance with OPM's Agreed Upon Procedures for Reviewing FY 2025 Civilian Payroll Withholding Data and Enrollment Information (Project No. D2025-D000FE-0082.000)

The purpose of this memorandum is to notify you that we plan to begin performing the subject agreed-upon procedures in April 2025. Office of Management and Budget Bulletin No. 24-02, “Audit Requirements for Federal Financial Statements,” July 29, 2024, requires us to perform certain agreed-upon procedures on DoD payroll and personnel files.

March 17, 2025

Project Announcement: Audit of Air Quality Concerns at Chabelley Airfield, Djibouti (Project No. D2025-D000RJ-0083.000)

The purpose of this memorandum is to notify you that we are initiating the subject audit. We are conducting this audit in response to allegations made to the DoD Hotline. The objective of this audit is to assess the effectiveness of Air Force and the U.S. Africa Command’s plans to mitigate air quality issues at Chabelley Airfield, Djibouti.

March 14, 2025

Project Announcement: Termination of the Audit of the Army’s Management of the XM30 Combat Vehicle Program (Project No. D2025-D000AU-0025.000)

We announced the subject audit on November 14, 2024. The objective was to assess the effectiveness of the Army’s management of the XM30 Combat Vehicle (XM30) program’s transition to a major capability acquisition (MCA) pathway with a focus on the Army’s management of the XM30’s critical technologies.1 Attachment A is a copy of our announcement memorandum.