The report on the GSA was a follow-up to one of 2020 in which the IG concluded that “mismanagement of contract employee PIV cards placed GSA personnel, federal property, and data at risk. Image: papi8888/Shutterstock.com
By: FEDweek StaffAn inspector general report has credited the GSA with being responsive to an earlier report stating concerns about controls over contractor personnel, while one on the Federal Housing Finance Agency raises concerns about vetting of both contractor personnel and the agency’s own employees.
The report on the GSA was a follow-up to one of 2020 in which the IG concluded that “mismanagement of contract employee PIV cards placed GSA personnel, federal property, and data at risk.” That report found, for example that the agency was unable to account for some 15,000 cards that had been issued to contractor employees, of which nearly 11,000 still would allow access to buildings and IT systems, and did not collect more than half of the 445 cards issued to contractor employees who later failed their background checks.
The agency has been responsive to recommendations in that report to account for the cards that audit identified and to ensure enforcement of current policy and implement new policy to account for all PIV cards, the IG said, saying no further actions are needed.
The report on the FHFA, though, found that its controls over background investigations and adjudications “were ineffective for ensuring compliance with federal requirements and timeliness of reviews.”
“Specifically, FHFA’s processes to conduct pre-employment screenings, initiate background investigations, and perform adjudications were not established in agency policies and procedures. Additionally, the agency lacked a tracking mechanism and sufficient documentation to monitor the progress of background investigations from initiation through adjudication.”
“While our testing did not identify any employees who were granted physical or logical access to the agency and its systems before pre-employment screenings and adjudications were completed, the absence of a tracking system increases the risk that this could go undetected if such an event occurred,” it said, adding that agency management agreed with recommendations directed toward those findings.
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