Reports

02.26.2018

NOAA Could Improve Monitoring of Blanket Purchase Agreements by Complying with Key Federal Acquisition Regulation and Administration Requirements

Attached is our final audit report on our audit of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) use of blanket purchase agreements (BPAs).

Report Number OIG-18-014-A

02.22.2018

Audit of Census Bureau Oversight and Practices to Close Out Contract Files

We are initiating an audit to assess closing out completed contracts at the Census Bureau.

02.22.2018

Former Research Oceanographer Sentenced for Accepting a Salary from the People's Republic of China

A former research oceanographer in the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, has been sentenced for accepting a salary from the People's Republic of China.

02.16.2018

Audit of the U.S Census Bureau's CEDCaP Program

We are conducting an audit of the Census Bureau's Census Enterprise Data Collection and Processing (CEDCaP) program to determine whether critical systems will be ready to test during the 2018 End-to-End Census Test (E2E Test).

02.15.2018

Audit of the Census Bureau's Decennial Cloud-Based Systems

We are initiating an audit of the Census Bureau's cloud-based systems supporting the 2020 Decennial Census.

02.15.2018

Fiscal Year 2018 FISMA Compliance Audit

As required by the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 (FISMA), OIG is initiating its fiscal year 2018 audit of the Department's information security program and practices.

02.08.2018

Audit of USPTO's Active Directory

As required by the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014, we are imitating an audit on USPTO's Active Directory (AD).

02.02.2018

Former Attorney Sentenced to Prison for Money Laundering

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A former attorney was sentenced today to seven years in prison for conspiring to launder over $2 million dollars derived from a business email compromise scheme and for attempting to launder funds he believed to be the proceeds of smuggling illegal aliens into the United States and trafficking firearms in Africa.

01.26.2018

2018 Annual Letter to OMB re: Government Charge Card Abuse Prevention Act of 2012

The Government Charge Card Abuse Prevention Act of 2012 (Charge Card Act) and OMB's implementing guidance require each office of inspector general (OIG) to perform annual risk assessments, as well as to submit semiannual reports to OMB, in coordination with the Department, of employee purchase or integrated card violations and the resulting actions taken.

Report Number OIG-18-013-M

01.23.2018

Audit of NOAA's Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO) Ship Fleet Acquisition Planning

We are initiating an audit to assess NOAA's acquisition of new ships. Our objective is to determine whether NOAA performed effective acquisition planning for its construction of new ships. We will also review NOAA's management of funds associated with this acquisition.