Reports

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.