This Fiscal Year 2023 Joint Strategic Plan for Ukraine Response is the first joint strategic oversight plan submitted to Congress by the Offices of Inspectors General (OIG) for the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Department of State, and the U.S. Agency for International Development. This plan describes these three OIG’s and partner agencies’ oversight of U.S. activities related to the Ukraine response.

The DoD OIG newsletter summarizes our reports and investigations released in the previous month and provides updates regarding our oversight activities.

RMA Associates, LLC (RMA), an independent public accounting firm, audited our FY 2022 financial statements.

The purpose of this management advisory is to provide DoD officials responsible for approving and managing the use of mobile applications with concerns identified during the Audit of the Defense Digital Service Support of DoD Programs and Operations (Project No. D2021-D000CU-0143.000). Specifically, we determined that DoD personnel are conducting official business on their DoD mobile devices using mobile applications in violation of Federal and DoD electronic messaging and records retention policies. In addition, DoD personnel are downloading mobile applications to their DoD mobile devices that could pose operational and cybersecurity risks to DoD information and information systems.

This report contains controlled unclassified information. To file a Freedom of Information Act Request, please submit a request to FOIA Online.

The Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) Circular, “National Drug Control Program Agency Compliance Reviews,” September 9, 2021, requires a budget formulation compliance report be provided to the Director of ONDCP by February 1 of each year. The Circular provides the policies and procedures that National Drug Control Program agencies must use to prepare the budget formulation compliance reports. The agency’s Chief Financial Officer or other accountable senior executive is responsible for preparing the budget formulation compliance reports. Each report includes sections on summer budget formulation information and assertions relating to the budget data.* We reviewed the FY 2022 DoD budget formulation compliance reports and the related assertions within those reports. DoD management is responsible for its assertions. Our responsibility is to express a conclusion on the DoD budget formulation compliance reports based on our review.

Michael Rosa, 62, of Salem, pleaded guilty in federal court to wire fraud, First Assistant United States Attorney Jay McCormack announced today.

Micheline Pollock, a citizen of Canada and resident of the United Kingdom, was sentenced in federal court today to time served, which amounts to approximately a 30-month term of imprisonment, for her role in a conspiracy to defraud the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and the U.S. Navy Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) in connection with military and humanitarian construction projects across Africa. Chief U.S. District Judge Dana M. Sabraw also ordered Pollock to pay more than $7 million in restitution.

The owner of several companies in the construction industry was sentenced to 27 months in prison and ordered to pay a $1.75 million fine for his role in a long-running scheme to defraud the United States.