inspections are to: assess leadership, assess quality of investigative and operational activity, assess effectiveness and efficiency of NCIS components, assess staffing levels, assess quality and management of available resources, assess compliance with established policies and procedures, evaluate anomalies which prevent or inhibit compliance to established policies and procedures, and develop appropriate recommendations to correct deficiencies. Field Office/Departmental Inspections — field office Special Agents in Charge and departmental Deputy Assistant Directors are responsible for mission accomplishment and monitoring the quality and timeliness of NCIS investigations and operations. Each field office component and headquarters department is required to conduct a self inspection each year and report the results to the OIG. The Self-Inspection Program provides the Director the annual assurances that field operations are in compliance with DoD, DON, and NCIS policies, directives and regulations. Intelligence Oversight Program — assurance that all NCIS intelligence activities, operations, and programs function in compliance with applicable U.S. law, statute, directive, and policy in order to protect a persons' rights and privacy from intrusion by intelligence activities and agencies. Within each NCIS field office the ASAC with responsibility for the Counterintelligence Program is designated as the Field Office Intelligence Oversight Officer. Within each NCISRA, the SSA is designated as the Unit Intelligence Oversight Officer. Intelligence Oversight Officers are responsible for ensuring required training is completed, answering employees' questions regarding authorized activities, and forwarding reports of questionable activity to the NCIS IG. A questionable intelligence activity is one that may violate the law, any Executive Order, Presidential directive or applicable DoD policy. Examples of a questionable intelligence activity include, but are not limited to: alleged abuse and mistreatment of detainees and prisoners by or directed by intelligence personnel; tasking intelligence personnel to conduct intelligence activities that are not part of the organization's approved mission, even if they have the technical capability to do so; providing intelligence services and/or products without proper authorization; and collecting information on U.S. persons, even though open source, when it is not part of the unit's mission. Personnel Directors of NCIS Executive command staff Director – Omar R. Lopez Deputy Director of Operations – Christopher J. McMahon Executive Assistant Director, National Security Directorate – Gregory A. Scovel Jr. Executive Assistant Director, Criminal Investigations and Operations Directorate – Kurt Thomas Executive Assistant Director, Atlantic and Global Operations Directorate – Clifton J. Everton III Executive Assistant Director, Pacific Operations Directorate – Nayda M. Mannle Deputy