Sept. 30, 2024

Fiscal Year 2025 Joint Strategic Oversight Plan For Operation Atlantic Resolve

We are pleased to submit our annual joint strategic oversight plan describing oversight activities for the U.S. Government’s response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and Operation Atlantic Resolve (OAR). This plan fulfills our individual and collective agency responsibilities pursuant to the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended, and the National Defense Authorization Act of 2024.

Sept. 27, 2024

Management Advisory: The DoD Should Analyze the Use of Barcode Scanners for Conducting Inventories of Defense Articles Requiring Enhanced End Use Monitoring (Report No. DODIG-2024-140)

The DoD designed the Golden Sentry End Use Monitoring program to meet the intent of the Arms Export Control Act to ensure that foreign nations use U.S. defense articles in accordance with the terms and conditions of respective transfer agreements or other applicable agreements. The DoD designates certain defense articles as requiring enhanced end use monitoring, which includes physical security inspections of the facilities storing them, along with initial and annual serial number inventories of all defense articles.

Sept. 26, 2024

Transmittal of the Independent Auditor’s Report on Service Owned Items in Defense Logistics Agency Custody for the Period October 1, 2023, Through June 30, 2024 (DODIG-2024-139)

To request the Independent Auditor’s Report on the SSAE 18 Examination of Service Owned Items in Defense Logistics Agency Custody as of July 31, 2024, and our transmittal; please file a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the Defense Logistics Agency FOIA here. 

Sept. 17, 2024

Audit of the Department of Defense’s Management of Dwell Time for Service Members in the Reserve Components (Report No. DODIG-2024-135)

The objective of this audit was to determine whether Service members in Reserve Components, mobilized in support of the DoD’s global mission requirements, received sufficient dwell periods in accordance with DoD and Service-level policies.

Sept. 11, 2024

Evaluation of the DoD’s Tracking and Accountability of Presidential Drawdown Equipment Provided to Taiwan (DODIG-2024-130)

The objective of this evaluation was to determine whether the DoD effectively and efficiently implemented accountability and quality controls for items provided to Taiwan using the Presidential Drawdown Authority. We also assessed the DoD’s tracking and inventorying of the presidential drawdown items and the sufficiency of the DoD’s processes to ensure that the PD items met applicable standards.

Aug. 28, 2024

Unclassified Summary of Report No. DODIG-2024-124, “Evaluation of Sustaining Engineering Actions for the Space Force’s Upgraded Early Warning Radar”

The Department of Defense Office of Inspector General conducted an evaluation titled “Evaluation of Sustaining Engineering Actions for the Space Force’s Upgraded Early Warning Radar.” The objective of this evaluation was to determine the extent to which the Space Force implemented sustaining engineering actions to ensure that the Upgraded Early Warning Radar was capable, reliable, and available to meet mission requirements while managing risks. Specifically, we determined whether the UEWR program office took sustaining engineering actions that were effective sustainment solutions for the UEWR.

Aug. 21, 2024

Audit of Repair Pricing on the F/A-18 Hornet Radar Systems (Report No. DODIG-2024-122)

The objective of this audit was to determine whether the Department of the Navy obtained fair and reasonable pricing for repair of Airborne Fire Control Radar Systems on the F/A 18 Hornet.

Aug. 15, 2024

Management Advisory: Concerns with Elevated Radon Levels at Naval Support Activity Naples (Report No. DODIG-2024-121)

The purpose of this management advisory is to inform the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Housing of the lack of DoD policy addressing potentially elevated levels of radon in off-base housing outside the continental United States and to notify Navy officials of the need to better communicate potentially elevated radon levels to personnel living in Naples off-base housing.

Aug. 12, 2024

Transmittal of the Independent Auditor’s Report on the Defense Property Accountability System for the Period October 1, 2023, Through June 30, 2024 (DODIG-2024-119)

To request the Independent Auditor’s Report on the SSAE 18 Examination of the Defense Property Accountability System for the Period October 1, 2023, Through June 30, 2024 and our transmittal, please file a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the Defense Logistics Agency here.

Aug. 12, 2024

Transmittal of the Independent Auditor’s Report on the Defense Automatic Addressing System for the Period October 1, 2023, Through June 30, 2024 (DODIG-2024-118)

To request the Independent Auditor’s Report on the SSAE 18 Examination of the Defense Automatic Addressing System for the Period October 1, 2023, Through June 30, 2024 and our transmittal, please file a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the Defense Logistics Agency here.