Federal Reports

As of February 2025, NASA had allocated over $26 billion in government property to contractors in support of six Artemis programs. Although NASA has policies in place to manage its government property, the Agency can strengthen its oversight by ensuring consistent application of those policies to decrease the risk of unnecessary costs and potential loss, theft, misuse, or destruction of government property.

This Office of Inspector General (OIG) Healthcare Facility Inspection program report describes the results of a focused evaluation of the care provided at the VA Cincinnati Healthcare System in Ohio. This evaluation focused on five key content domains:
•    Culture
•    Environment of care
•    Patient safety
•    Primary care
•    Veteran-centered safety net
The OIG issued nine recommendations for VA to correct identified deficiencies in two domains:
1.    Environment of care
•    Correct deficiencies found during comprehensive environment of care inspections
•    Fire drills
•    Medical equipment inspections and maintenance labels
•    Clean patient care areas in the Emergency Department
•    Exit pathways free from obstructions
2.    Patient safety
•    Service-level workflows for the communication of test results
•    Monitoring providers’ communication of urgent, noncritical test results to patients
•    Root cause analysis actions
•    Patient safety program

On November 5, 2024, Senator Bill Hagerty requested that the OIG assess VA’s compliance with statutory transfer of funds limitations listed in relevant appropriations laws in effect during the continuing resolution. According to Senator Hagerty, the statutory transfer of funds authority and change of program requirements under the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 would continue to apply during the presidential transition and continuing resolution. The OIG limited its review to the eight sections of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 that Senator Hagerty listed in a letter to the previous VA Secretary. The OIG reviewed sections 202, 217, 218, 227, 230, 231, 245, 405, and this management advisory memorandum conveys the results of the review.

The OIG found no issues with six of the eight sections. For the four sections that included transfers, the team noted that there were no applicable transfers during the review period. Additionally, VA received advanced approval for the reprogramming of major construction project funds greater than $7 million as required in section 231. The team also analyzed conversions and did not identify any that qualified for the requirements under section 245; VA confirmed no qualifying conversions occurred. While the OIG found quarterly reports provided under section 217 were late, it is not requesting action because a recommendation from a previously published OIG report in this area remains open. Finally, under section 227, the team found, in some cases, VA did not notify Congress 15 days before organizational changes that resulted in the transfer of 25 or more full-time equivalents from one organizational unit of the department to another as required. The OIG requested that the Office of Management inform the OIG what action, if any, is taken to notify Congress 15 days before any organizational changes involving the transfer of 25 or more full-time equivalents.

This report presents the results of our evaluation of the U.S. Small Business Administration’s (SBA) handling of cash contributions and gifts. We found SBA generally complied with established guidance over the solicitation, acceptance, holding, and use of cash contributions and gifts totaling $520,000 during fiscal year 2024 from National Small Business Week cosponsors. However, we found SBA should improve its agency vetting form to show that each potential cosponsor was clear of conflicts of interest concerns before agency officials signed cosponsorship agreements.

As a result of our review, the SBA Office of Strategic Alliances took immediate actions to update the form used to vet conflicts of interest for cosponsors showing the Office of General Counsel’s review and clearance of potential conflicts of interest. Therefore, we did not make any recommendations in this report.