Reports

08.14.2015

Audit of NIST Quality System for Measurement Services

As part of our FY 2015 work plan, we are initiating an audit of NIST's Boulder Lab.

Report Number OIG-15-038-M

08.14.2015

Audit of FirstNet's Workforce and Recruiting Challenges, Participation at Discretionary Events, and Internal Control

We are initiating an audit of the First Responder Network Authority's (FirstNet) technical development of the Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network (NPSBN).

Report Number OIG-15-036-A

08.14.2015

IG Letter to Senate re FOIA Requests

Dear Chairman Johnson: This letter responds to your June 23, 2015, request that we analyze the involvement of non career officials in the Department of Commerce Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) response process for the period of January I, 2007, to the present.

08.07.2015

Philadelphia Congressman and Associates Charged with Participating in Racketeering Conspiracy

PHILADELPHIA – A Member of Congress and four of his associates were indicted today for their roles in a racketeering conspiracy involving several schemes that were intended to further the political and financial interests of the defendants and others by, among other tactics, misappropriating hundreds of thousands of dollars of federal, charitable and campaign funds.

08.06.2015

The Department Must Strengthen Controls over Premium-class Travel Justification, Approval, and Reporting

We are initiating an audit of premium-class travel spending at the Department. Our overall objective will be to evaluate controls over premium-class travel spending and how they have been implemented.

Report Number OIG-15-034-A

08.05.2015

IG's Testimony on Justice Department's Failure to Comply with Its Legal Obligations to Ensure IG Access to Records

Chairman Grassley, Ranking Member Leahy, and Members of the Committee: I appreciate the opportunity to appear before you today regarding the recent opinion issued by the Office of Legal Counsel and its impact on the ability of Offices of Inspectors General (OIGs) to carry out our mission.

07.15.2015

OIG Testimony on Investigating Contract Misconduct at the National Weather Service

Chairman Smith, Ranking Member Johnson, and Members of the Committee: We appreciate the opportunity to testify today about post-employment consulting practices at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) National Weather Service (NWS).

07.14.2015

Closed – Announcement of Audit of NIST Security and Foreign National Access

The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations has directed OIG to undertake a review of NIST security and foreign national access.

06.19.2015

Inaccurate Reporting of Undefinitized Actions in the Federal Procurement Data-Next Generation

We are initiating an audit of Undefinitized Contractual Actions (UCAs) at NIST.

Report Number OIG-15-033-A

06.11.2015

Director of the University of South Carolina's Center for Manufacturing and Technology Pleads Guilty to Fraud

Columbia, South Carolina —- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Gail Shurling, 62, has entered a guilty plea in federal court in Columbia to Wire Fraud, a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1343.