Sept. 30, 2024

Fiscal Year 2025 Comprehensive Oversight Plan Overseas Contingency Operations

We are pleased to submit our annual plans describing oversight activities for Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR) and Operation Enduring Sentinel (OES). These plans fulfill our individual and collective agency oversight responsibilities pursuant to the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended. We will issue a separate plan for Operation Atlantic Resolve, which includes assistance to Ukraine.

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. 23, 2024

Project Announcement: Audit of Noncombatant Evacuation Operation Plans in the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Area of Responsibility (Project No. D2024-D000RM-0174.000)

The purpose of this memorandum is to notify you that we are initiating the subject audit. The objective of this audit is to assess the effectiveness with which the DoD prepared, maintained, and exercised noncombatant evacuation operation (NEO) plans in the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) area of responsibility in accordance with Federal law and DoD policies.

Sept. 16, 2024

Summary of Oversight Reports on Security Assistance to Ukraine Issued From January 2020 Through February 2024, to Inform DoD Efforts to Support Israel and Other Future Security Assistance Efforts (Report No. DODIG-2024-131)

Our review of 31 DoD OIG oversight reports issued between January 2020 and February 2024, found that the DoD has continued to face systemic challenges across a variety of areas related to security cooperation for Ukraine. We identified and summarized these challenges and respective recommendations that, if implemented, may improve the efficiency and effectiveness of DoD efforts to support Israel and other future security assistance efforts.

Sept. 10, 2024

Whistleblower Reprisal Investigation: L.C. Industries, Inc. Vicksburg, Mississippi (DODIG-2024-129)

We conducted this investigation in response to a reprisal complaint alleging that L.C. Industries (LCI) took a series of qualifying actions against (the Complainant) in reprisal for making protected disclosures concerning the improper use of Federal funds and that the Complainant’s LCI supervisor had retaliated against her. The Complainant was employed as an assistant store manager at LCI base supply centers in Vicksburg, Mississippi.

Sept. 9, 2024

Project Announcement: Joint Evaluation of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s Integration of Maven (DoD OIG Project No. D2024-DEV0SI-0158.000; NGA OIG Project No. 24-A10)

The purpose of this memorandum is to notify you that we plan to begin the subject joint evaluation. The objective of this evaluation is to assess the effectiveness with which the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has integrated the Maven artificial intelligence program into the NGA’s geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) operations and fielded the technology to DoD mission areas.

Aug. 27, 2024

Operation Enduring Sentinel and Other U.S. Government Activities Related to Afghanistan (OES)

This quarterly report describes the activities of the U.S. Government in support of OES, as well as the work of the DoD, the Department of State (State), and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to further the U.S. Government’s policy goals in Afghanistan during the period of April 1 through June 30, 2024. This report also discusses the planned, ongoing, and completed oversight work conducted by the Lead IG agencies—the DoD, State, and USAID OIGs—and our partner oversight agencies.

Aug. 26, 2024

Project Announcement: Evaluation of U.S. Africa Command Military Information Support Operations (Project No. D2024-DEV0PD-0168.000)

The objective of this evaluation is to assess the U.S. Africa Command’s planning, execution, and measurement of military information support operations. We may revise the objective as the evaluation proceeds, and we will also consider suggestions from management for additional or revised objectives.

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. 13, 2024

Operation Atlantic Resolve (OAR)

This report discusses the planned, ongoing, and completed oversight work conducted by the DoD, State, and USAID Offices of Inspector General, as well as the other U.S. oversight agencies that coordinate their activities through the Ukraine Oversight Interagency Working Group.