Research, evaluate, and implement technical or alternative solutions to deploy essential computer software updates using appropriate secure methods to ensure that computer security updates occur in a timely manner to minimize risk to HUD’s systems and operations

Research, evaluate, and implement technical solutions to provide additional improvements to VPN and related remote working capabilities of HUD system users.

Perform routine VPN stress tests as part of its contingency planning and testing processes to regularly identify and remediate network performance issues and ensure that network capabilities are sufficient for teleworking.

Research, evaluate, and implement technical solutions to resolve the user account management issues and the underlying issue in the technical environment.

Assess its help desk system against other technical solutions and ensure that the help desk solution used captures complete data on technical support requests. This measure includes but is not limited to ensuring that sequence gaps are properly documented or do not occur, valid transactions are Read More

Provide clearer guidance and instruction to PL 113-2 disaster grantees to assist them in establishing an effective internal audit activity.

Establish a recurring training and discussion forum among the PL 113-2 grantees and CPD that enables grantees to share ideas and receive guidance and information about CPD’s expectations regarding the internal audit requirement.

Establish and implement a process to ensure that The Office of Multifamily Housing Programs’ policies, procedures, and supervisory controls are effective. This process should include addressing postdisaster damage assessments, properly updating iREMS, and executing loan forbearances. This Read More

Establish and implement a process to ensure that the Office of Single Family Housing’s policies, procedures, and supervisory controls are effective. This process should address the proper use, maintenance, and reporting of gathered information on disaster-damaged properties as well as the proper Read More

Establish and implement a process to ensure that CPD’s supervisory controls are effective related to its staff’s requirement to contact grantees following a disaster. This process should also integrate with other HUD program offices as appropriate to improve consistency with HUD’s overall Read More

Establish and implement a process to ensure that ONAP’s policies and procedures are effective. This process should address the identification of presidentially declared disaster areas and the requirement to contact disaster-affected housing entities. This process should also integrate with other Read More

Improve the Office of Public Housing’s procedures with written guidance to ensure that its staff formally tracks outreach to PHAs.

Provide adequate documentation to support the $21,373,462 in unreasonable and unnecessary obligated funds.

Strengthen and implement acquisition controls to ensure that proper cost and price documentation is obtained, adequate monitoring is conducted, adequate market research is conducted and that contractors are evaluated to assess their capability to perform work, and required contract documentation Read More

Seek reimbursement for $161,718 in ineligible funds disbursed for equipment and support services not specified in a scanning services contract.

We recommend that the Acting Director of OBGA work with HUD’s Office of General Counsel to create a codified Disaster Recovery program.

Designate additional HUD personnel and establish an internal reporting structure to complete DATA Act implementation, while sustaining reliable DATA Act reporting for later periods.

Validate, certify, and submit all reportable FHA and Ginnie Mae data through the DATA Act broker and report the data on USASpending.gov, including files A through F.

Complete data quality and error resolution for HUD’s loan programs to ensure inclusion in HUD’s subsequent submissions.

Allocate the financial resources to ensure that reconciliations are performed in the consolidation of source system data to the DATA Act submission files.