Nov. 19, 2020

Fiscal Year 2021 Oversight Plan

The Oversight Plan describes the specific oversight projects the DoD OIG intends to conduct in FY 2021, and how those projects are related to the top management challenges facing the DoD. The Oversight Plan and Top DoD Management Challenges documents are related. The Oversight Plan is organized by management challenge. Each chapter provides a summary of a particular challenge, followed by an inventory of the ongoing and planned oversight projects that directly align to that challenge. The Oversight Plan assists the DoD OIG in fulfilling its mission to detect and deter waste, fraud, and abuse in DoD programs and operations; improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the DoD; and help ensure ethical conduct throughout the DoD.

Nov. 19, 2020

Top DoD Management Challenges – Fiscal Year 2021

The Top DoD Management Challenges document identifies the top management and performance challenges impacting the DoD for FY 2021 and beyond.  Each Inspector General is required by law to prepare this annual statement summarizing what the IG considers the “most serious management and performance challenges facing the agency.”  This report provides Congress and the DoD’s civilian and military leaders an independent assessment of the management and performance challenges confronting the DoD.  Finally, the Top DoD Management Challenges document must be included in the DoD’s annual financial report.

Nov. 18, 2020

Project Announcement: Audit of DoD’s Compliance With the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 (Project No. D2021-D000CP-0034.000)

We plan to begin the subject audit in November 2020. The objective of this audit is to determine the effectiveness of the DoD’s information security policies, procedures, and practices and provide an annual independent evaluation in accordance with the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014. We may revise the objective as the audit proceeds, and we will also consider suggestions from management for additional or revised objectives.

Nov. 12, 2020

Audit of the Accuracy of the Improper Payment Estimates Reported for the Mechanization of Contract Administration Services System (DODIG-2021-024)

Publicly Released: November 16, 2020

The objective of this audit was to determine whether the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) accurately identified and reported improper payments from payments processed through the Mechanization of Contract Administration Services system (MOCAS).

Nov. 9, 2020

Transmittal of the Independent Auditor’s Report on the DoD Military Retirement Fund Financial Statements and Related Notes for FY 2020 and FY 2019 (DODIG-2021-020)

This report begins on page 29/70 of the Fiscal Year 2020 Military Retirement Fund Audited Financial Report. This report may be viewed here, https://comptroller.defense.gov/Portals/45/Documents/afr/fy2020/DoD_Components/2020_AFR_MRF.pdf

Nov. 9, 2020

Transmittal of the Independent Auditor’s Reports on the DoD Medicare-Eligible Retiree Health Care Fund Financial Statements and Related Notes for FY 2020 and FY 2019 (DODIG-2021-013)

DODIG-2021-013 is part of the Fiscal Year 2020 Medicare-Eligible Retiree Health Care Fund Audited Financial Report and should not be issued without that information. Our transmittal begins on page 63/81.

Nov. 9, 2020

Reannouncement of the Evaluation of the National Industrial Security Program Contract Classification System (Project No. D2020-DEV0SI-0082.000)

We are reannouncing the subject evaluation, announced February 3, 2020 (attached), to inform you of changes to our objective. The original evaluation objective was to determine whether DoD components are using the National Industrial Security Program Contract Classification System in accordance with guidance from the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, and whether the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency is monitoring contractors' safeguarding of DoD classified information. The reannounced evaluation objective is to determine whether DoD components are using the National Industrial Security Program Contract Classification System in accordance with guidance from the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence.

Nov. 6, 2020

Lead Inspector General for Operation Pacific Eagle-Philippines I Quarterly Report to the United States Congress I July 1, 2020 - September 30, 2020

Publicly Released: November 10, 2020

This Lead Inspector General (Lead IG) report to the United States Congress is the 12th and final quarterly report on Operation Pacific Eagle–Philippines (OPE-P), the overseas contingency operation to support the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ (AFP) fight against ISIS–East Asia (ISIS-EA) 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, and covers the period from July 1 through September 30, 2020.

Oct. 29, 2020

Project Announcement: Review of DoD’s Implementation of Executive Order 13950, Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping, September 22, 2020 (Project No. D2021-DEV0SO-0027.000)

In an October 16, 2020, memorandum, the Secretary of Defense requested that the DoD OIG conduct a compliance review of the DoD’s implementation of Executive Order 13950, “Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping.” We will begin the subject review in October 2020. The objective is to review and assess agency compliance with the requirements of Executive Order 13950 on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping. We may revise the objective as the project proceeds, and we will also consider suggestions from management for additional or revised objectives.

Oct. 27, 2020

Project Announcement: Termination of the Audit of Department of Defense Diversity, Inclusion, and Equal Opportunity Training for Military Personnel (Project No. D2020-D000AV-0184.000)

We announced the subject audit on September 24, 2020 (attached). The objective was to determine whether the Military Departments provide military personnel with diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunity training that aligns with the DoD’s diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunity goals, and to determine whether the training is effectively implemented across the Military Departments in accordance with Federal and DoD policies. We are terminating this audit because we are going to announce a new project that is focused on the recently issued Executive Order 13950, “Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping,” September 22, 2020, and implemented by the Secretary of Defense Memorandum, “Implementation of Executive Order on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping,” October 16, 2020.