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Audit of the Impact of Coronavirus Disease–2019 on Basic Training
Rec. 1: The DoD OIG recommended that the Commanders of the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command; Marine Corps Training and Education Command; Naval Education and Training Command; Naval Service Training Command; and Air Education and Training Command develop procedures to ensure compliance with the implementation of COVID-19 guidance at basic training centers.
Rec. 1: The DoD OIG recommended that the Commanders of the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command; Marine Corps Training and Education Command; Naval Education and Training Command; Naval Service Training Command; and Air Education and Training Command develop procedures to ensure compliance with the implementation of COVID-19 guidance at basic training centers.
Rec. 1: The DoD OIG recommended that the Commanders of the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command; Marine Corps Training and Education Command; Naval Education and Training Command; Naval Service Training Command; and Air Education and Training Command develop procedures to ensure compliance with the implementation of COVID-19 guidance at basic training centers.
Rec. 1: The DoD OIG recommended that the Commanders of the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command; Marine Corps Training and Education Command; Naval Education and Training Command; Naval Service Training Command; and Air Education and Training Command develop procedures to ensure compliance with the implementation of COVID-19 guidance at basic training centers.
Rec. 2: The DoD OIG recommended that the Commanders of Marine Corps Training and Education Command and Air Education and Training Command develop procedures to ensure compliance with screening and testing of recruits and training personnel, including procedures for timely testing and delivery of results.
Rec. 2: The DoD OIG recommended that the Commanders of Marine Corps Training and Education Command and Air Education and Training Command develop procedures to ensure compliance with screening and testing of recruits and training personnel, including procedures for timely testing and delivery of results.
Rec. 3: The DoD OIG recommended that the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command develop procedures to ensure compliance with the use of personal protective equipment necessary for basic training, including defining social distancing requirements with additional emphasis on the use of masks for indoor and outdoor environments.
Rec. 4: The DoD OIG recommended that the Commanders of the Marine Corps Training and Education Command; Naval Education and Training Command; Naval Service Training Command; and Air Education and Training Command develop procedures to ensure compliance with the use of cleaning supplies necessary for basic training.
Rec. 4: The DoD OIG recommended that the Commanders of the Marine Corps Training and Education Command; Naval Education and Training Command; Naval Service Training Command; and Air Education and Training Command develop procedures to ensure compliance with the use of cleaning supplies necessary for basic training.
Rec. 4: The DoD OIG recommended that the Commanders of the Marine Corps Training and Education Command; Naval Education and Training Command; Naval Service Training Command; and Air Education and Training Command develop procedures to ensure compliance with the use of cleaning supplies necessary for basic training.
Rec. 5: The DoD OIG recommended that the Commanders of the Naval Education and Training Command; Naval Service Training Command; and Air Education and Training Command assess manpower requirements for training personnel to ensure compliance with COVID-19 procedures required by DoD guidance and take appropriate action based on that assessment.
Rec. 5: The DoD OIG recommended that the Commanders of the Naval Education and Training Command; Naval Service Training Command; and Air Education and Training Command assess manpower requirements for training personnel to ensure compliance with COVID-19 procedures required by DoD guidance and take appropriate action based on that assessment.
Performance Audit of the Implementation of OMB COVID-19 Flexibilities – University of Kentucky Research Foundation
Direct UKRF to provide documentation supporting that it has repaid or otherwise credited the $33,151 of questioned materials and supplies costs for which it has agreed to reimburse NSF.
Direct UKRF to implement additional NSF grant close-out procedures that require the Principal Investigator to evaluate whether they should remove any expenses associated with unused materials and supplies from the NSF award.
Performance Audit of the Implementation of OMB COVID-19 Flexibilities – University of Alaska Fairbanks
Direct UAF to provide documentation supporting that it has repaid or otherwise credited the $14,964 of questioned Award Cash Management $ervice drawdowns associated with unreturned credits.
Direct UAF to provide additional training to the individual(s) responsible for making draws within NSF’s Award Cash Management $ervice system to ensure that UAF appropriately incorporates credits when calculating the total amount to draw down from, or return to, NSF.
Direct UAF to provide documentation supporting that it has repaid or otherwise credited the $10,704 of questioned indirect costs for which it has agreed to reimburse NSF.
Direct UAF to strengthen its administrative and management processes and training procedures for ensuring that it appropriately applies indirect costs to costs charged to Federal awards. Updated processes could include: a. Requiring an annual review of sponsored award accounts that UAF established to track participant support costs to ensure that the accounts do not apply indirect costs. b. Requiring that personnel manually review purchase card transactions that exceed $5,000 to evaluate whether UAF should account for the purchase(s) as equipment.
Direct UAF to provide documentation supporting that it has repaid or otherwise credited the $2,938 of questioned travel and other direct costs for which it has agreed to reimburse NSF.
Direct UAF to strengthen its policies and procedures related to creating and retaining documentation, including introducing additional controls to help ensure that UAF appropriately creates and maintains all documentation necessary to support the allowability of expenses charged to sponsored programs.
Direct UAF to provide additional training regarding the types of travel expenses that are allowable and unallowable under Federal and NSF regulation and UAF policy. This training should specifically address how to account for expenses claimed by non-UAF employees for which UAF has received a travel credit.
Direct UAF to establish clear guidance regarding the allowability of credit card convenience fees.
Direct UAF to strengthen its administrative and management processes and procedures surrounding the approval of travel expense reports. Updated procedures could include: a. Conducting annual training for those individuals responsible for reviewing and approving expense reports within each department. b. Requiring personnel to perform additional procedures when a traveler diverts from their original travel itinerary.
Direct UAF to update its current practices for establishing indirect cost rates to ensure that UAF applies indirect costs to NSF awards using the rate(s) established in the appropriate Negotiated Indirect Cost Rate Agreement.
Evaluation of Access to Department of Defense Information Technology and Communications During the Coronavirus Disease-2019 Pandemic
Rec. 1.a: The DoD OIG recommended that the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Global Security revise the "DoD Implementation Plan for Pandemic Influenza" to update the planning assumptions in the DoD Implementation Plan for Pandemic Influenza to include the use of telework for essential and non-essential personnel and to align the DoD Implementation Plan for Pandemic Influenza with the DoD Telework Policy, Enclosure 3, Section 3(i)(2).
Rec. 1.b: The DoD OIG recommended that the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Global Security revise the "DoD Implementation Plan for Pandemic Influenza" to require DoD Components to update their Pandemic Plans to include the revised assumptions regarding telework for essential and non-essential personnel and the resources required to support the teleworking workforce.
Rec. 2: The DoD OIG recommended that the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, in coordination with the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, establish management oversight procedures to verify that DoD Components have performed the testing, training, and exercise requirements of the DoD Implementation Plan for Pandemic Influenza and the DoD Telework Policy. The oversight procedures should assess the ability of DoD Components to support Government-wide mandated telework, including the results from tests of network and communications systems and telework exercises with personnel.
Audit of Maintaining Cybersecurity in the Coronavirus Disease–2019 Telework Environment
Recommendation is CUI
Rec. 1.b: Recommendation is CUI
Recommendation is CUI
Recommendation is CUI
Rec. 3: The DoD OIG recommended that the Army Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel develop, implement, and enforce a plan to verify that DoD personnel complete telework agreement and the required DoD telework training before teleworking.
Recommendation is CUI
Recommendation is CUI
Recommendation is CUI
Rec. 7: The DoD OIG recommended that the Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff for Manpower, Personnel, and Services verify that DoD personnel completed telework agreements and the required DoD telework training before teleworking.
Evaluation of the Armed Forces Retirement Home Response to the Coronavirus Disease-2019 Pandemic
Rec. 1.a-c: The DoD OIG recommend that the Armed Forces Retirement Home Chief Operating Officer: a. Update the Comprehensive COVID Testing for AFRH' plan to include procedures for testing residents and healthcare personnel following an outbreak, as well as cleaning and disinfecting between individuals tests; b. Formalize the "Comprehensive COVID Testing for AFRH" plan; and c. Formalize the "Widespread Infectious Disease Emergency Operations Plan" to ensure continuity of operations during this ongoing and future pandemics.
Rec. 2: The DoD OIG recommended that the Armed Forces Retirement Home Facility Administrators at Gulfport, Mississippi and Washington, D.C. formalize their respective facility's draft plan for the COVID-19 and quarantine units.
Evaluation of the Navy’s Plans and Response to the Coronavirus Disease-2019 Onboard Navy Warships and Submarines
Rec. 1: The DoD OIG recommended that the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Operations, Plans, and Strategy and the Surgeon General of the Navy review and update Office of the Chief of Naval Operations Instruction 3500.41A "Pandemic Influenza and Infectious Disease Policy" November 19, 2018, and Navy Technical Reference Publication 4-02.10 "Shipboard Quarantine and Isolation," September 2014, to include guidance and lessons learned from coronavirus disease-2019.
Rec. 2: The DoD OIG recommended that the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Operations, Plans, and Strategy and the Surgeon General of the Navy include the observations and analysis identified in the after action review on the outbreak on the USS Kidd when updating the Navy's Pandemic Influenza and Infectious Disease policies.
Rec. 3: The DoD OIG recommended that the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Operations, Plans, and Strategy develop a plan of action and milestones for Navy component commands to conduct biennial Pandemic Influenza and Infectious Disease exercises, in accordance with Office of the Chief of Naval Operations Instruction 3500.41A, "Pandemic Influenza and Infectious Disease Policy," November 19, 2018.
Evaluation of Department of Defense Medical Treatment Facility Challenges During the Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic
Rec. 1.a: The DoD OIG recommended that the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, in conjunction with the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs and Secretaries of the Military Departments, establish a working group within 30 days of this report's publication, to address the personnel, supplies, testing capabilities, information technology, communication, and lines of authority challenges that we identified during the Coronavirus Disease-2019 pandemic that exist between the Services and the Defense Health Agency. The working group should establish milestones to develop guidance for coordinating the staffing of multi-Service military treatment facilities during a pandemic.
Rec. 1.b: The DoD OIG recommended that the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, in conjunction with the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs and Secretaries of the Military Departments, establish a working group within 30 days of this report's publication, to address the personnel, supplies, testing capabilities, information technology, communication, and lines of authority challenges that we identified during the Coronavirus Disease-2019 pandemic that exist between the Services and the Defense Health Agency. The working group should establish milestones to consolidate Coronavirus Disease-2019 reporting requirements and recipients to reduce duplication and inconsistent requirements.
Rec. 1.c: The DoD OIG recommended that the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, in conjunction with the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs and Secretaries of the Military Departments, establish a working group within 30 days of this report's publication, to address the personnel, supplies, testing capabilities, information technology, communication, and lines of authority challenges that we identified during the Coronavirus Disease-2019 pandemic that exist between the Services and the Defense Health Agency. The working group should establish milestones to create a pandemic-related informational website and a toll-free number for beneficiaries to find Coronavirus Disease-2019-related information and ensure the website and toll-free number are advertised and maintained.
Rec. 1.d: The DoD OIG recommended that the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, in conjunction with the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs and Secretaries of the Military Departments, establish a working group within 30 days of this report's publication, to address the personnel, supplies, testing capabilities, information technology, communication, and lines of authority challenges that we identified during the Coronavirus Disease-2019 pandemic that exist between the Services and the Defense Health Agency. The working group should establish milestones to issue clarifying guidance for defining essential personnel for civilian healthcare workers.
Rec. 1.e: The DoD OIG recommended that the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, in conjunction with the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs and Secretaries of the Military Departments, establish a working group within 30 days of this report's publication, to address the personnel, supplies, testing capabilities, information technology, communication, and lines of authority challenges that we identified during the Coronavirus Disease-2019 pandemic that exist between the Services and the Defense Health Agency. The working group should establish milestones to update contracts to allow for more flexibility regarding the use of contracted personnel during extenuating circumstances, such as a pandemic.
Audit of Screening and Quarantine Procedures for Personnel Entering Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar (DODIG-2020-128)
This recommendation is For Official Use Only
This recommendation is For Official Use Only