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Top Management Challenges

For FY 2012, OIG identified 5 challenges facing the Department of Commerce:
  • Promote exports, stimulate economic growth, and create jobs
  • Reduce costs and improve operations to optimize resources in a period of constrained budgets
  • IT Security
  • Acquisitions and Contracting
  • NOAA's Satellite Program
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Semiannual Report to Congress

This report summarizes work we completed and initiated from April 1, 2011-September 30, 2011. Our office issued 10 audit and evaluation reports addressing programs overseen by Commerce operating units and the Department itself. We also began to identify the top management challenges facing the Department in FY 2012.

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Census and NOAA Reading Rooms

Reading rooms are a collection of reports, testimony, and other documents focused on a particular issue. These materials may also be found by clicking on the relevant oversight area on the right side of this page.

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Office of Inspector General

The Office of Inspector General (OIG) seeks to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the Department of Commerce's programs and operations. OIG also endeavors to detect and deter waste, fraud, and abuse.
 
OIG monitors and tracks the use of taxpayer dollars through audits, inspections, evaluations, and investigations. The Inspector General keeps the Secretary of Commerce and Congress fully and currently informed about problems and deficiencies relating to Commerce's activities and the need for corrective action.
 
OIG is certified by the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) as a 5 U.S.C. §2302(c) Whistleblower Protection Agency.
 
hotline and whistleblower protection
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