4.4: Program and Operational Improvements

Promote improvements to Department programs and operations by identifying and completing work that (1) promotes integrity, efficiency, and effectiveness, and (2) prevents and detects fraud, waste, and abuse.

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The Department’s diverse mission and critical programs and operations are administered in a dynamic environment–one that is greatly influenced by ever-changing conditions. As the Department works to accomplish its mission, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) provides a unique, independent voice to the Secretary and other senior Department managers, as well as to Congress, in keeping with its mandate to promote integrity, efficiency, and effectiveness and prevent and detect waste, fraud, and abuse in Department programs and operations. This work is primarily accomplished through audits, inspections, evaluations, and investigations and a variety of activities geared toward averting problems. Moreover, OIG strives to ensure that it: Performs high quality, timely work; Concentrates its efforts on the Department’s most critical programs, operations, challenges, and vulnerabilities; and Achieves results that allow government funds to be put to better use and address criminal, civil, and other wrongdoing.

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