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The committee felt that the Navy Department needed an office of Inspector General to "be charged with the duty of keeping Congress and the secretary of the Navy informed as to the conditions of the naval service. [2] Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox established the Office of Naval Inspector General (NIG) on 18 May 1942 with General Order 173.
The Department of Defense Inspector General was established in 1982. The mission of DoD IG; as established by the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended, (5 U.S.C. Appendix); and implemented by DoD Directive 5106.01, "Inspector General of the Department of Defense", is to serve as an independent and objective office in DoD to:
The Defense Hotline is the Inspector General's lead in making civilian employees and service members aware of their duty to disclosure, and the consequent protection. Critical in protecting whistleblowing is raising awareness. The Department of Defense Inspector General promotes this through three methods: outreach, investigations, and training.
In addition to their inspector general members, the CIGIE includes non-inspector general representatives from the federal executive branch, such as executives from the Office of Management and Budget, the Office of Personnel Management, the Office of Government Ethics, the Office of Special Counsel, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The ...
Huffman v. Office of Personnel Management, 263 F.3d 1341 (Fed. Cir. 2001) [1] is a decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit addressing a two decade-old conflict between the United States Congress and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit over the depth of whistleblower protection available to federal civilian employees covered by the Whistleblower ...
Jan. 30—The state Department of Health today ordered the Navy to retest Waiawa Shaft after being informed of about 50 tap water and air quality complaints from Navy water system users. "DOH is ...
The Inspector General Act of 1978 is a United States federal law (92 Stat. 1101) defining a standard set of Inspector General offices across several specified departments of the U.S. federal government. The Act specifically creates Inspector General positions and offices in more than a dozen specific departments and agencies.
The whistleblower's complaint was deemed credible and a matter of "urgent concern" by the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community (IGIC). [20] Under federal law, when the IGIC determines that a complaint credibly raises an urgent concern, he or she forwards it to the relevant agency head (here, the DNI), who is required to forward it to ...