Reports

11.21.2019

Management Alert: Critical 2020 Census Systems Failed to Meet Peak Recruiting Demands During Testing

Attached is a management alert on the U.S. Census Bureau's (the Bureau's) Decennial Applicant Personnel and Payroll System and the Census Hiring and Employment Check system.

Report Number OIG-20-010-M

11.19.2019

USPTO FY 2019 Financial Statements Audit [See pages 141–145 of FY 2019 Performance and Accountability Report]

Message from the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual property and Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Report Number OIG-20-009-A

11.19.2019

FY 2019 Consolidated Financial Statements Audit [See pages 46–52 of FY 2019 Agency Financial Report]

Attached for your review is our final report on the audit of the 2018 End-to-End Census (E2E)
Test address canvassing operation. We initiated this audit of the U.S. Census Bureau
(the Bureau) in support of our oversight role over the planning and implementation of the 2020
Census.

Report Number OIG-20-008-A

11.12.2019

Supplemental Memorandum on Report No. OIG-19-021-A, Audit of NOAA Financial Assistance Awards to the Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission

This final memorandum addresses the results of our attempt to audit $5,030,452 that the Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission (the Commission) paid to its subrecipient, the Gulf and South Atlantic Fisheries Foundation (GSAFF), under financial assistance award NA10NMF4770481 from the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Report Number OIG-20-007-A

11.12.2019

NOAA's Office of Marine and Aviation Operations Needs to Improve the Planning and Governing of Its Ship Fleet Recapitalization Effort

Attached for your review is our final report on the audit of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO) ship fleet recapitalization effort.

Report Number OIG-20-006-A

11.07.2019

Management Alert: U.S. & Foreign Commercial Service Needs to Address Urgent Issues in the Officer Promotion Process

Attached is a management alert on the International Trade Administration's (ITA's) 2018 U.S. & Foreign Commercial Service (US&FCS) officer promotion process.

Report Number OIG-20-005-M

10.29.2019

Audit of the Department's Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014 Submission for the First Quarter of Fiscal Year 2019

This memorandum accompanies the U.S. Department of Commerce Office of Inspector General report on the Department's Digit Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014 (DATA Act) submission for the first quarter of fiscal year (FY) 2019.

Report Number OIG-20-004-A

10.28.2019

Management Alert: Certain Communications by Department Officials Suggest Improper Influence in the Section 232 Exclusion Request Review Process

Attached is a management alert regarding a lack of transparency that contributes to the appearance of improper influence in decision-making for tariff exclusion
requests under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, as amended.

Report Number OIG-20-003-M

10.23.2019

Audit of WPSFF Grants to the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council

The objectives of our audit will be to determine whether the Council (1) claimed allowable, allocable, and reasonable costs under the grant awards; and (2) received the goods and services paid for by the grant awards.

10.17.2019

Audit of the U.S. Census Bureau's IT Security Measures Supporting the 2020 Census

We are initiating an audit of the U.S. Census Bureau's decennial information technology (IT) security measures.

10.16.2019

Top Management and Performance Challenges Facing the Department of Commerce in FY 2020

The Office of Inspector General is required by statute to report annually the most serious management and performance challenges facing the Department of
Commerce.

Report Number OIG-20-001