This required external peer review was conducted in accordance with the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE) Inspection and Evaluation Committee guidance as contained in the CIGIE Guide for Conducting Peer Reviews of Inspection and Evaluation Organizations of Federal Offices of Inspector General, issued in July 2023. The peer review was conducted from September 25, 2024, through February 21, 2025.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Office of Inspector General (OIG), as the Reviewing OIG, assessed the extent to which the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) OIG, the Reviewed OIG, complied with the CIGIE Quality Standards for Inspection and Evaluation, issued in December 2020 (Blue Book). This assessment included a review of the DoD OIG’s internal policies and procedures set forth in the DoD OIG’s Evaluations (EVAL) Handbook, issued September 30, 2020, and last updated January 24, 2024, and the DoD OIG’s EVAL Business Operations Consolidated Rules, issued September 30, 2020, and last updated February 2, 2024, for implementing the Blue Book standards. It also included a review of selected evaluation reports issued between October 1, 2023, and September 30, 2024, to determine whether the reports complied with the Blue Book standards and the DoD OIG’s internal policies and procedures.
The HUD OIG determined that the DoD OIG’s policies and procedures generally were consistent with the seven Blue Book standards addressed in the external peer review. All four of the reports reviewed generally complied with the Blue Book standards. The HUD OIG did not make any recommendations associated with this external peer review.