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DOD OIG COVID-19 Oversight Plan: July 2020 Update
From the Introduction: "On May 12, 2020, the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General (DoD OIG) released its coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) Oversight Plan describing the independent audits, evaluations, and investigations that it intends to conduct of DoD programs, operations, and activities being executed in response to COVID-19. [...] This month's update to the DoD OIG COVID-19 Oversight Plan lists recently announced and ongoing oversight projects in alignment with the DoD's top three challenges related to its pandemic-related responsibilities, as determined by the DoD OIG. These challenges are maintaining readiness and conducting ongoing operations while adhering to COVID-19 restrictions; ensuring access to and quality of healthcare for service members and their families; and ensuring appropriate financial management and accountability of COVID-19 related funds. Each section of the update describes the challenge, lists recently announced and ongoing oversight projects related to the challenge, and includes a link to the related project announcement letters on the DoD OIG website."
United States. Department of Defense. Office of the Inspector General
2020-07
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State of the Space Industrial Base 2020: A Time for Action to Sustain US Economic & Military Leadership in Space
From the Executive Summary: "The world stands at the threshold of a new era in space. Much of the foundation of this exciting era is American made, and much of the innovation powering it is born of American creativity and ingenuity. Other nations, however, are challenging the US for leadership of this next space age. Success in this long-term strategic competition requires that the US seamlessly integrate multiple elements of national power. This report provides US policymakers and industry leaders comprehensive recommendations on the path forward to address the growing threats to US space power and how to ensure a strong US space industrial base as a foundation to US space leadership. Going beyond 'admiring the problem,' this report documents the next higher level of analysis of the challenge, focusing on specific actions the US must undertake to maintain security in space. The report clearly delineates the state of the space industrial base, its challenges and issues, and provides six overarching recommendations to US policymakers and four overarching recommendations to space industry leaders."
United States. Department of Defense
Butow, Steven J.; Cooley, Thomas; Felt, Eric . . .
2020-07
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Layered Homeland Missile Defense: 'A Strategy for Defending the United States'
From the Conclusion: "[1] The U.S. homeland is no longer out of range from rogue state missile threats, and the threat is only increasing. [2] Although the U.S. is protected from current rogue state threats, a complementary layered missile defense of the U.S. homeland will provide an effective and credible counter to these threats well into the future. [3] The United States will continue to be transparent about its missile defense goals and capabilities while supporting the number one objective of the Department of Defense: defending the homeland."
United States. Department of Defense
2020-06-22?
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Audit of the Department of Defense's Processes to Identify and Clear Munitions and Explosives of Concern During Construction on Guam
From the Objective: "The objective of this audit was to determine whether DoD personnel implemented safety standards and quality assurance controls for addressing munitions and explosives of concern during military construction projects on Guam, and whether DoD personnel properly managed safety concerns and readiness related to munitions and explosives of concern on Guam in accordance with military standards and risk-management instructions."
United States. Department of Defense. Office of the Inspector General
2020-06-16
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Message to the Department -- Support to Civil Authorities
From the Document: "The United States military has been the greatest force for good in our Nation's history. While we often see the impact of our efforts overseas, every President has at times deployed military forces for domestic missions as well. In the last few months, for example, America's men and women in uniform - Active Duty, Reserve, and National Guard - have worked day and night across our communities to confront the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] crisis. This historic mission was just the most recent example of our longstanding support to civilian authorities - from pandemics to hurricanes, and from wildfires to providing security after 9/11 ."
United States. Department of Defense; United States. Department of Defense. Office of the Secretary of Defense
2020-06-02
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Special Report on Best Practices and Lessons Learned for DoD Contracting Officials in the Pandemic Environment
From the Document: "This special report provides best practices and lessons learned identified in audit reports related to disaster responses. From 2006 through 2020, personnel from the DoD Office of Inspector General and the Service Audit Agencies conducted 52 audits related to disaster relief response. Of the 52 reports, 36 were focused on oversight of contracting related to disaster response activities. We analyzed the audit reports and determined several best practices and lessons learned related to contracting from the DoD's previous disaster relief responses. In addition, this special report provides potential procurement fraud schemes and tips to avoid potential fraudulent activity. We recognize that DoD contracting officials are in a unique, and ever-changing situation. However, the best practices, lessons learned, and fraud awareness highlighted in this special report should assist DoD contracting officials in providing better contract oversight and avoiding potential fraudulent activity."
United States. Department of Defense. Office of the Inspector General
2020-06-02
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Enhancing Security and Stability in Afghanistan [June 2020]
From the Document: "'This report describes efforts to enhance security and stability in Afghanistan from December 1, 2019, through May 31, 2020. The data cutoff date for this report is April 30, 2020. This report complements other reports and information about Afghanistan provided to Congress and is not intended to be the single source of all information about the combined efforts or the future strategy of the United States, its coalition partners, or Afghanistan.'"
United States. Department of Defense
2020-06
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Defense Space Strategy Summary, June 2020
From the Executive Summary: "The Department of Defense (DoD) is embarking on the most significant transformation in the history of the U.S. national security space program. Space is now a distinct warfighting domain, demanding enterprise-wide changes to policies, strategies, operations, investments, capabilities, and expertise for a new strategic environment. This strategy identifies how DoD will advance spacepower to enable the Department to compete, deter, and win in a complex security environment characterized by great power competition. [...] The DoD desires a secure, stable, and accessible space domain, whose use by the United States and our allies and partners is underpinned by comprehensive, sustained military strength. The strategy includes a phased approach for the defense enterprise to move with purpose and speed across four lines of effort (LOEs): (1) build a comprehensive military advantage in space; (2) integrate space into national, joint, and combined operations; (3) shape the strategic environment; and (4) cooperate with allies, partners, industry, and other U.S. Government departments and agencies."
United States. Department of Defense
2020-06
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Pentagon Reservation Plan for Resilience and Aligning with National Guidelines for 'Opening Up America Again'
From the Document: "The Department of Defense and the Federal Government's aggressive approach to stop the spread and defeat the threat of the corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has saved thousands of lives and mitigated the potential disruption and damage caused by the virus to our Nation's defense and economy. We remain strong, unified, and united in the Secretary of Defense goals to protect our workforce, continue the mission to defend the United States, and support the whole-of-government response to protect and respond to the needs of our fellow citizens and neighbors. Nearly 59,000 DoD personnel are currently deployed supporting COVID-19 relief efforts. DoD will also continue to safeguard U.S. national interests and those of our allies and partners throughout this crisis. The mission continues as DoD develops a phased plan for the workforce to return to Pentagon Reservation office spaces. Protection of our workforce, including military, government civilians, contractors, and partner personnel is our number one priority as we prepare to return to normal operations."
United States. Department of Defense
2020-05-26
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Transition to Conditions-Based Phased Approach to Coronavirus Disease 2019 Personnel Movement and Travel Restrictions
From the Document: "While the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic still presents risk to DoD Service members, civilians, and their families, improving conditions warrant a transition in our approach to domestic and overseas personnel travel to a conditions-based, phased approach to personnel movement and travel. While we make this transition, my priorities remain - protecting our Service members, DoD civilian employees, and families; safeguarding our national security capabilities; and supporting the whole-of-nation response. Effective immediately, this memorandum cancels reference (a) and reissues travel restriction guidance for DoD components that will remain in effect until further notice."
United States. Department of Defense
2020-05-22
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Guidance for Commanders on Risk-Based Changing of Health Protection Condition Levels During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic
From the Document: "This memorandum supplements reference (a) and provides guidance for commanders to consider when making decisions to change health protection condition (HPCON) levels as COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic conditions on and adjacent to our installations begin to improve. I am also delegating the authority to change HPCON levels for the Pentagon Reservation and the Armed Forces Retirement Home to the Chief Management Officer."
United States. Department of Defense. Office of the Secretary of Defense
2020-05-19
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DOD OIG COVID-19 Oversight Plan
From the Introduction: "In response to the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, Congress appropriated nearly $10.6 billion to the DoD to prevent, prepare for, and respond to COVID-19, domestically and internationally. In addition, Congress appropriated $20 million to the DoD OIG [Office of the Inspector General] for increased oversight of DoD programs, operations, and activities in response to COVID-19. This DoD OIG COVID-19 Oversight Plan describes planned and ongoing audits, evaluations, and investigations that the DoD OIG intends to conduct of DoD programs, operations, and activities executed in response to COVID-19. The Oversight Plan also contains summaries and links for our completed work, a review of the DoD OIG approach to criminal investigations, and a summary of complaints the DoD Hotline has received related to COVID-19."
United States. Department of Defense. Office of the Inspector General
2020-05-12
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Audit of the Department of Defense's Compliance in Fiscal Year 2019 with Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act Requirements
From the Background: "IPERA [Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act] requires Federal agencies to review their programs and identify those that may be susceptible to significant improper payments, to estimate and report the dollar amount of improper payments in those programs, and to report on actions planned to reduce improper payments in those programs. IPERA also requires agency Inspectors General to evaluate agency compliance with six IPERA requirements each fiscal year. The DoD must meet all of the requirements to comply with IPERA. The President's Management Agenda of 2018 focuses on effective and modern Government capabilities, including a focus on effective stewardship of taxpayer funds through 11 Cross-Agency Priority (CAP) goals. CAP Goal 9, 'Getting Payments Right,' discusses saving taxpayer money by making payments correctly and collecting money back from incorrect payments. [...] On November 15, 2019, the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)/Chief Financial Officer, DoD (USD[C]/CFO), published the Payment Integrity section of the FY 2019 Agency Financial Report (AFR). The AFR reported $8.7 billion in estimated improper payments for eight DoD programs, which was an increase from the $1.2 billion, for the same eight programs that were reported in the FY 2018 AFR."
United States. Department of Defense. Office of the Inspector General
2020-05-01
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Evaluation of the DOD's Management of Health and Safety Hazards in Government-Owned and Government-Controlled Military Family Housing
From the Document: "The objective of this evaluation was to determine if the DoD effectively managed health and safety hazards in Government-owned and Government-controlled (GO-GC) military family housing. For this report, management is defined as the policies and procedures used by DoD officials to identify, mitigate or minimize, monitor, disclose, and oversee health and safety hazards in GO-GC military family housing."
United States. Department of Defense. Office of the Inspector General
2020-04-30
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Appendix B: Statistical Data on Sexual Assault
From the Purpose: "The Department of Defense (DOD) collects data on sexual assault to inform Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (SAPR) policy, program development, and oversight actions. Congress requires DOD to supply data about sexual assault reports and the outcome of sexual assault investigations. Each year, the Sexual Assault Response and Prevention Office (SAPRO) aggregates data on reports of sexual assault, analyzes the results, and presents them in this report."
United States. Department of Defense. Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office
2020-04-30?
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Appendix C: Metrics and Non-Metrics on Sexual Assault
From the Document: "In 2014 in collaboration with the White House, the Department of Defense (DOD) developed the following metrics and 'non-metrics' to help illustrate and assess DOD's progress in sexual assault prevention and response (SAPR). As part of the development process, DOD examined sexual assault programs throughout the nation to identify potential points of analysis. Unfortunately, DOD could not find widely accepted, population-based metrics to serve as a reference. Therefore, in a collaborative process involving DOD SAPR program experts and researchers, DOD developed the following eleven metrics and six non-metrics. For the purposes of this document, the term 'metric' describes a quantifiable part of a system's function. Inherent in performance metrics is the concept that there may be a positive or negative valence associated with such measurements. In addition, adjustments in inputs to a process may allow an entity to influence a metric in a desired direction. For example, DOD aspires to encourage greater reporting of sexual assault by putting policies and resources in place. Therefore, an increase in the number of sexual assaults reported may indicate that DOD's efforts may be working. DOD uses the term 'non-metric' to describe outputs of the military justice system that should not be 'influenced,' or be considered as having a positive or negative valence in that doing so may be inappropriate or unlawful under military law. Figures A through BB illustrate points of analysis for metrics and non-metrics."
United States. Department of Defense. Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office
2020-04-30?
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Appendix A: Additional Accomplishments, Activities, and Outreach
From the Document: "This Appendix details program and policy advances the Department of Defense (DOD) Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office (SAPRO) completed during Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 in addition to those discussed in the Upfront Report."
United States. Department of Defense. Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office
2020-04-30?
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Appendix D: Aggregate DOD Data Matrices
From the Document: "The data on this page is raw, uninvestigated information about allegations received during FY19. These Reports may not be fully investigated by the end of the fiscal year. This data is drawn from Defense Sexual Assault Database (DSAID) based on Service affiliation of the Sexual Assault Response Coordinator (SARC) who currently manages the Victim case."
United States. Department of Defense. Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office
2020-04-30?
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Enclosure 2: Department of the Navy
From the Executive Summary: "Operating under the immediate supervision of the Secretary of the Navy, DON SAPRO [Department of Navy Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office] oversees the sexual assault prevention and response activities for the Navy, the Marine Corps, and the United States Naval Academy. As the Secretary's principal advisor on issues relating to sexual assault, DON SAPRO provides the Secretary with the evaluation of prevention and response initiatives, through data analyses and relevant subject matter expertise. DON SAPRO also guides the Department's development of future policies and practices, aimed to eliminate sexual assault. Further, DON SAPRO partners with the Department of Defense's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office (DoD SAPRO), and other military services, as well as with academia and commercial industry. To support the Department's objectives (prevention, care, accountability), during Fiscal Year 2019 (FY 2019), DON SAPRO adopted four key areas of focus: 1. Building Partnerships; 2. Program Evaluation; 3. Providing Resources for the Navy and Marine Corps; 4. Oversight and Compliance."
United States. Department of Defense. Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office
2020-04-30?
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Enclosure 3: Department of the Air Force
From the Executive Summary: "The Air Force experienced multiple successes with its sexual assault prevention and response (SAPR) program in fiscal year 2019. However, we also endured continuing challenges. Despite these challenges, the Air Force adopts a collaborative approach amongst its functional communities and echelons of command in order to combat sexual assault. Collaborative efforts begin with prevention and continue through final case disposition and accountability of offenders. In terms of prevention, the Air Force embraced the Department of Defense's Plan of Prevention and Action Self-Assessment and used this tool as a means to emphasize how important the prevention of sexual assault is in our Service. Additionally, the Air Force intends to expand this tool in fiscal year 2020 as a forum for Major Commands to provide vital feedback to continuously improve prevention efforts. The Air Force also engaged the Major Commands in fiscal year 2019 in the Air Force Integrated Resilience Directorate's first-ever Headquarters Major Command Roundtable. This forum enabled Major Command program managers to collaborate with Headquarters to provide vital feedback on program successes and failures and to influence program execution and policy across the Air Force Integrated Resilience Directorate's portfolio. The Air Force emphasized collaboration amongst SAPR, medical, law enforcement and legal personnel in sexual assault response. As such, high-quality, victim-centered services remained a key priority in fiscal year 2019."
United States. Department of Defense. Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office
2020-04-30?
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Appendix F: Sexual Harassment Assessment
From the Document: "Across the Department of Defense (DOD), dedicated Service members and civilian employees work tirelessly each day to ensure mission accomplishment and success in our daily operations as we endeavor to safeguard our nation and achieve our national defense objectives. Our people are at the core of the National Defense Strategy and ensuring their wellbeing remains of utmost importance to the Department. Behaviors that jeopardize the welfare of any member of the Total Force will not be tolerated, condoned, or ignored. Sexual harassment is one such problematic behavior which has no place in DOD. Sexually harassing behavior violates the responsibility of Service members and DOD civilian employees to treat each other with dignity and respect. Incidents of sexual harassment threaten force readiness and have the potential to undermine critical cohesion and trust among members of the Total Force. [...] This appendix reports on complaints of sexual harassment received in Fiscal Year 2019 (FY19), which covers the period from October 1, 2018, to September 30, 2019. The topline summary of 1,021 formal sexual harassment complaints reported by the Military Services in FY19 increased 10 percent from FY18."
United States. Department of Defense. Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office
2020-04-30?
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Appendix E: Safe Helpline Data
From the Document: "The Department of Defense (DOD) Safe Helpline (SHL) provides crisis intervention, support, information, and referrals to resources for members of the DOD community who experience sexual assault. The service is confidential, anonymous, secure, and available at all hours of the day. Its availability ensures that all victims have a place to safely disclose sexual assault allegations, express concerns, and obtain information. As such, this resource provides victims a key source of support, particularly for those who might not otherwise reach out for help through face-to-face military channels. The Department leverages SHL as an accessible point-of-entry for the military community that facilitates sexual assault reporting to Sexual Assault Response Coordinators (SARCs) and Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Victim Advocates (SAPR VAs). This summary provides an overview of users served and services provided by SHL in Fiscal Year 2019 (FY19)."
United States. Department of Defense. Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office
2020-04-30?
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Enclosure 4: National Guard Bureau
From the Executive Summary: "The National Guard Bureau (NGB) Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (SAPR) and Sexual Harassment/Assault Response and Prevention (SHARP) Offices began Fiscal Year 2019 (FY19) receiving the Chief of the National Guard Bureau (CNGB) memorandum, 01 October 2018, 'Internal National Guard Bureau Organizational Design Decision--Tranche 1.' This memorandum provided guidance on the consolidation of the Army National Guard, Air National Guard, and NGB, Manpower and Personnel, SAPR (NGB-J1-SAPR) Offices to align with the National Defense Strategy and the Secretary of Defense's reform line of effort."
United States. Department of Defense. Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office
2020-04-30?
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Appendix H: Child Sexual Abuse
From the Document: "The Family Advocacy Program (FAP) is the congressionally mandated program within the Department of Defense (DOD) responsible for supplying clinical assessment, support, and treatment services in response to incidents of child abuse and neglect in military families. Child sexual abuse by a parent or other caregiver is a subset of child abuse."
United States. Department of Defense. Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office
2020-04-30?
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Appendix G: Domestic Abuse-Related Sexual Assault
From the Document: "The Family Advocacy Program (FAP) is the congressionally mandated program within the Department of Defense (DOD) responsible for supplying clinical assessment, support, and treatment services in response to incidents of domestic abuse in military families. Sexual assault occurring within the context of a marriage or intimate partner relationship (i.e., sexual abuse) is a subset of domestic abuse."
United States. Department of Defense. Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office
2020-04-30?
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Appendix I: Acronyms List
This document contains a list of acronyms used in the 'Department of Defense Annual Report on Sexual Assault in the Military: Fiscal Year 2019'.
United States. Department of Defense. Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office
2020-04-30?
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U.S. Army Fiscal Year 2019: Active Component and U.S. Army Reserve Annual Report on Sexual Assault
From the Executive Summary: "The U.S. Army is committed to enhancing readiness by preventing sexual assault, sexual harassment, and associated retaliatory behaviors and by providing comprehensive response capabilities through its Sexual Harassment/Assault Response and Prevention (SHARP) program. [...] In fiscal year 2019 (FY19), the Army continued to see a high rate of sexual assault reports: 5.5 reports of sexual assault per 1,000 Soldiers, unchanged from FY18, and the highest reporting rate ever recorded. The sustained high rate in the number of reports may be a positive indicator of victim confidence in their chain of command, victim advocacy and response services, Army criminal investigation offices, and appropriate accountability for offenders. However, results of the most recent Department of Defense (DoD) Workplace and Gender Relations Survey of Active Duty Members (WGRA) showed an increase in the estimated prevalence of sexual assault to 6,500 Army Soldiers in 2018, compared to 5,200 estimated in 2016. This increase is very troubling and shows that the Army's sexual assault prevention strategies have not achieved their intended results. During FY19, the Army re-examined these strategies in an effort to reduce prevalence and prevent sexual assault. This report details the operational initiatives of the Army's SHARP program and the Army's progress in preventing and responding to the crimes of sexual assault."
United States. Department of Defense. Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office
2020-04-30?
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System Review Report on the Defense Logistics Agency Office of the Inspector General Audit Organization
From the Document: "We have reviewed the system of quality control for the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) audit organization in effect for the 3-year period ended September 30, 2019. A system of quality control encompasses the DLA OIG audit organization's structure and the policies adopted and procedures established to provide it with reasonable assurance of conformity with the December 2011 version of the Government Auditing Standards (GAS). The elements of quality control are described in GAS. The DLA OIG audit organization is responsible for establishing and maintaining a system of quality control that is designed to provide it with reasonable assurance that the organization and its personnel comply with professional standards and applicable legal and regulatory requirements in all material respects. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the design of the system of quality control and the DLA OIG audit organization's compliance with standards and requirements based on our review."
United States. Department of Defense. Office of the Inspector General
2020-04-28
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Special Report on Protecting Patient Health Information During the COVID-19 Pandemic
From the Document: "As the DoD continues to support the Nation in treating COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] cases around the world, it is imperative that personnel working in military medical treatment facilities (MTFs) renew their efforts to protect controlled unclassified information, including patient health information (PHI) and personally identifiable information (PII). PHI is a subset of PII, and if obtained, can be used to steal identities and reveal the health conditions and medical diagnosis of a patient. As the Nation's COVID-19 cases continue to increase and the DoD works diligently to care for the sick, the DoD must ensure that controls are in place to not only protect patients, physicians, and nurses from further spreading the virus, but also protect the sensitive and personal data collected from those individuals from unauthorized access and inadvertent disclosure. Because MTFs use different methods to collect patient data, such as in-person and virtual triage, continuing to exercise due diligence to protect patient data is needed now more than ever with the increased patient loads at MTFs and alternative care facilities the DoD is helping to build and operate. The DoD Office of Inspector General (DoD OIG) recognizes that MTFs are seeing and treating patients at increasing rates. The DoD OIG is providing this document to share lessons learned and best practices that we identified during our previous work related to the security and protection of PHI at MTFs."
United States. Department of Defense. Office of the Inspector General
2020-04-23
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Annual Report on Civilian Casualties in Connection with United States Military Operations in 2019
From the Document: "This report is submitted pursuant to Section 1057 of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 (Public Law 115-91), as amended. This report primarily provides information about U.S. military operations in 2019 that were assessed to have resulted in civilian casualties. This report also contains updates to information the Department of Defense (DoD) provided in the reports submitted to Congress in prior years pursuant to Section 1057 of the NDAA for FY 2018, as amended. Some of the information provided in prior reports about U.S. military operations in 2017 and 2018 has been repeated in this report because the information was relevant to U.S. military operations in 2019."
United States. Department of Defense
2020-04-22
