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U.S. Postal Service: Inspection Service Should Document Its Law Enforcement Workforce Decision-Making Processes
GAO-24-106497
May 29, 2024
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3 Open Recommendations
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United States Postal Service The Postmaster General should ensure the Chief Postal Inspector documents the Inspection Service's processes for determining the size and location of the postal inspector workforce across divisions, including factors that should be considered, and document the results of those processes. (Recommendation 1)
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United States Postal Service The Postmaster General should ensure the Chief Postal Inspector fully documents the Inspection Service's processes for determining the size and location of the postal police workforce, including factors that should be considered. (Recommendation 2)
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United States Postal Service The Postmaster General should ensure the Chief Postal Inspector sets a time frame for completing a security force assessment to determine the size and location of the postal police workforce. (Recommendation 3)
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Military Justice: Increased Oversight, Data Collection, and Analysis Could Aid Assessment of Racial Disparities
GAO-24-106386
May 23, 2024
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6 Open Recommendations
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should develop and implement a process to centrally collect and maintain accessible data—including race and ethnicity data—on administrative sanctions, all investigations including commander-directed investigations, appeals, and service members selected to serve on court-martial panels to facilitate centralized visibility over, and, as necessary, the assessment and reporting of these data. (Recommendation 2)
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Department of the Army The Secretary of the Army should develop and implement a process to centrally collect and maintain accessible data—including race and ethnicity data—on administrative sanctions, all investigations including commander-directed investigations, appeals, and service members selected to serve on court-martial panels, to facilitate centralized visibility over, and, as necessary, the assessment and reporting of these data. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of the Air Force The Secretary of the Air Force should develop and implement a process to centrally collect and maintain accessible data—including race and ethnicity data—on all investigations including commander-directed investigations, appeals, and service members selected to serve on court-martial panels to facilitate centralized visibility over, and, as necessary, the assessment and reporting of these data. (Recommendation 3)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness designates a department-level office as the oversight entity responsible for coordinating the military departments' assessments of racial and ethnic disparities in military justice and discipline processes. (Recommendation 4)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure the department-level office designated to oversee coordination of the military departments' racial disparity assessments coordinates with the military departments to establish standard terminology and reporting categories, analyses, and reporting format and content to be used in future assessments of racial disparities in military justice and discipline processes. (Recommendation 5)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that a department-level office is designated to coordinate with the military departments to comprehensively assess the military justice and discipline process to identify all areas where racial and ethnic disparities may exist, including in the selection of court-martial panels and sentencing, and the corresponding analyses to be conducted. (Recommendation 6)
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Intellectual Property: Stronger Fraud Risk Management Could Improve the Integrity of the Trademark System
GAO-24-106533
Mar 14, 2024
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2 Open Recommendations
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Patent and Trademark Office Recommendation 1: The Commissioner for Trademarks should plan and conduct regular fraud risk assessments of the trademark register to determine a fraud risk profile that aligns with leading practices in the Fraud Risk Framework. Specifically, this process should include (1) identifying inherent fraud risks to the trademark register, (2) assessing the likelihood and impact of inherent fraud risks, (3) determining fraud risk tolerance, (4) examining the suitability of existing fraud controls, and (5) documenting the fraud risk profile.
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Patent and Trademark Office Recommendation 2: The Commissioner for Trademarks should identify and implement improvements to current data systems to strengthen trademark data analytics for stronger fraud risk management.
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DOD Fraud Risk Management: Enhanced Data Analytics Can Help Manage Fraud Risks
GAO-24-105358
Feb 27, 2024
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11 Open Recommendations
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy, in collaboration with the Inspector General of DOD and the other military departments, should improve the usability of its respective procurement fraud investigative data by DOD for fraud risk management purposes. Specific actions should include ensuring that data in structured fields are complete, accessible, and readily subject to analysis and aggregation. (Recommendation 8)
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Department of the Army The Secretary of the Army, in collaboration with the Inspector General of DOD and the other military departments, should improve the usability of its respective procurement fraud investigative data by DOD for fraud risk management purposes. Specific actions should include ensuring that data in structured fields are complete, accessible, and readily subject to analysis and aggregation. (Recommendation 7)
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Department of the Air Force The Secretary of the Air Force, in collaboration with the Inspector General of DOD and the other military departments, should improve the usability of its respective procurement fraud investigative data by DOD for fraud risk management purposes. Specific actions should include ensuring that data in structured fields are complete, accessible, and readily subject to analysis and aggregation. (Recommendation 6)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) revises DOD's Fraud Risk Management Strategy to establish data analytics as a method for preventing, detecting, and responding to fraud. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) identifies and documents in DOD's Fraud Risk Management Strategy which entity has the necessary authority to ensure that fraud-related data-analytics activities are planned and implemented. (Recommendation 2)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) revises DOD's Fraud Risk Management Strategy to clarify and document roles and responsibilities related to data-analytics activities. (Recommendation 3)
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