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118THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 6187
To require the Inspector General of the Department of Defense to submit
an annual report on oversight of fraud, waste, and abuse, and for
other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
NOVEMBER2, 2023
Mr. F
ROST(for himself and Mr. MILLS) introduced the following bill; which
was referred to the Committee on Armed Services
A BILL
To require the Inspector General of the Department of De-
fense to submit an annual report on oversight of fraud,
waste, and abuse, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Defense Spending 4
Oversight Act of 2024’’. 5
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SEC. 2. INSPECTOR GENERAL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DE-1
FENSE ANNUAL REPORT ON OVERSIGHT OF 2
FRAUD, WASTE, AND ABUSE. 3
(a) R
EPORTREQUIRED.—The Inspector General of 4
the Department of Defense shall submit to Congress and 5
the Comptroller General of the United States a detailed 6
annual report containing— 7
(1) a description of the budget of the Depart-8
ment of Defense, the total amount and dollar value 9
of oversight investigations into fraud waste and 10
abuse conducted by the Department of Defense Of-11
fice of Inspector General, and the total amount and 12
dollar value of oversight investigations into fraud, 13
waste, and abuse conducted by the Offices of Inspec-14
tor General of each of the military departments; 15
(2) statistical tables showing— 16
(A) the total number and dollar value of 17
oversight investigations completed and pending, 18
set forth separately by type of oversight inves-19
tigation; 20
(B) the priority given to each type of over-21
sight investigation; 22
(C) the length of time taken for each type 23
of oversight investigation, both from the date of 24
receipt of a qualified incurred cost submission 25
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and from the date the oversight investigation 1
begins; 2
(D) the aggregate cost of performing over-3
sight investigations, set forth separately by type 4
of oversight investigation; and 5
(E) the total number and dollar value of 6
oversight investigations that are pending for a 7
period longer than one year as of the end of the 8
fiscal year covered by the report, and the fiscal 9
year in which the qualified submission was re-10
ceived, set forth separately by type of oversight 11
investigation; 12
(3) a summary of any recommendations of ac-13
tions or resources needed to improve the oversight 14
investigation process; and 15
(4) any other matters the Inspector General 16
considers appropriate. 17
(b) P
UBLICAVAILABILITY.—Each report submitted 18
under subsection (a) shall be made publicly available. 19
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