05.16.2024
Management Alert: The NPSBN Band 14 Signal Strength Does Not Consistently Provide Adequate Band 14 Service for First Responders
This management alert reports that the signal strength FirstNet Authority measures for the NPSBN Band 14 coverage area is significantly less powerful than the signal strength the NPSBN contractor reports to FirstNet Authority regarding its commercial non-Band 14 coverage—an issue that poses a risk of overstating the coverage area and services the NPSBN provides.
Report Number OIG-24-022-M
First Responder Network Authority, National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)
Audits / Evaluations
03.01.2023
FirstNet Authority Failed to Provide Adequate Contract Oversight for Its Initial Two Reinvestment Task Orders
Our audit found that FirstNet Authority did not adequately assess contractor performance of its initial two reinvestments.
Report Number OIG-23-012-A
First Responder Network Authority
Audits / Evaluations
11.28.2022
FirstNet Authority Could Not Demonstrate Investment Decisions Were the Best Use of Reinvestment Funds or Maximized the Benefits to Public Safety
Our audit found that FirstNet Authority has not established a sound process for selecting opportunities to reinvest funds into the construction, maintenance, operation, and improvement of the Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network.
Report Number OIG-23-005-A
First Responder Network Authority
Audits / Evaluations
08.25.2022
FirstNet Authority Did Not Have Reliable Cost Estimates to Ensure It Awarded Two Reinvestment Task Orders at Fair and Reasonable Prices
Our audit found that FirstNet Authority did not follow GAO guidance when preparing and documenting independent government cost estimates, which it used to evaluate AT&T’s proposals related to two task orders of the Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network contract.
Report Number OIG-22-029-A
First Responder Network Authority
Audits / Evaluations
12.14.2021
FirstNet Authority Must Increase Governance and Oversight to Ensure NPSBN Security
Attached is the final report on the evaluation of the National Public Safety Broadband Network's (NPSBN's) security architecture. Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries Pandemic Relief Program.
Report Number OIG-22-011-I
First Responder Network Authority
Audits / Evaluations
01.05.2021
Continued FirstNet Authority Management Attention is Needed to Address Control Environment Weaknesses
This final report provides the results of our evaluation of the First Responder Network Authority's (FirstNet Authority's) actions following our management alert, FirstNet Management Altered Contract Requirements Without Authorization, 1 which was a result of a hotline complaint.
Report Number OIG-21-016-I
First Responder Network Authority
Audits / Evaluations
10.08.2020
Request for Information to FirstNet Authority Executive Director Edward Parkinson from the Office of Inspector General re: AT&T Subcontractors
After several requests from our office to the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet Authority) for information on AT&T subcontractors, we have yet to receive a complete list with all of the requested subcontractor attributes.
Report Number OIG-21-002-M
First Responder Network Authority
Correspondence
09.29.2020
Evaluation of the Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network's Security Architecture and Risk
We are initiating an evaluation of the First Responder Network Authority's (FirstNet Authority's) National Public Safety Broadband Network's (NPSBN's) security posture.
First Responder Network Authority
01.30.2020
NTIA and FirstNet Should Improve Controls to Strengthen the Fee Collection Process
This final report provides the results of our audit regarding the management of fee payments from AT&T Inc. (AT&T) to the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet).
Report Number OIG-20-015-A
First Responder Network Authority, National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)
Audits / Evaluations
08.01.2019
Management Alert: FirstNet Management Altered Contract Requirements Without Authorization
Attached is a management alert on the increased risk regarding the First Responder Network Authority's (FirstNet's) contract management. Issues regarding this topic came to our attention during fieldwork for another audit.
Report Number OIG-19-020-M
First Responder Network Authority
Audits / Evaluations
07.22.2019
FirstNet Has Opportunities to Address Control Weaknesses
This final report provides the results of our audit to assess the First Responder Network Authority's (FirstNet's) oversight of the contract awarded to develop and implement the Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network (NPSBN).
