Reports

02.28.2025

Audit of Fiscal Year 2025 Department of Commerce Consolidated Financial Statements

This announcement memo initiates an audit of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s FY 2025 consolidated financial statements, to be conducted by certified public accounting firm KPMG LLP and overseen by OIG.

Office of the Secretary

Audits Initiated

02.27.2025

The National Weather Service Should Further Strengthen Its Protection of Essential Operational Technology

Our evaluation identified internal weaknesses in some operational technology systems related to credential and vulnerability management that could increase the risk of a successful cyberattack.

Report Number OIG-25-012-I

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

Audits / Evaluations

02.25.2025

OIG's Evaluation of MEP's Economic Impact Reporting Process Also Identified Instances of Noncompliance at Centers, Led to NIST Action

This report provides additional results identified during our evaluation of MEP economic impact reporting—specifically, it details two instances in which our work prompted NIST to conduct its own review and issue notices of material noncompliance to MEP Centers.

Report Number OIG-25-011-I

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Audits / Evaluations

02.13.2025

Audit of Semiconductor Incentives Program Eligibility

This announcement memo initiates an audit to determine whether NIST ensured that entities receiving financial assistance met eligibility requirements under the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) Act.

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Audits Initiated

02.12.2025

2020 Census Contractor Agrees to Pay $8,000,000 to Settle Fraud Allegations

DOJ Press Release

Investigations

02.11.2025

Audit of EDA's FY 2019 Disaster Relief Grants Costs Claimed and Oversight Efforts

This announcement memo initiates an audit to determine whether EDA grantees accounted for and expended disaster relief funds in accordance with federal laws and regulations. Specifically, we will determine whether EDA (1) claimed allowable, allocable, and reasonable costs under the financial assistance awards and (2) received the goods and services paid for by the awards.

Economic Development Administration

Audits Initiated

02.03.2025

Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund Award Process for NOFO 1

This announcement memo initiates an audit to determine whether NTIA had an adequate review and selection award process to ensure grant recipients met requirements of the Innovation Fund program’s Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) 1—Research and Development, Testing and Evaluation.

National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)

Audits Initiated

01.30.2025

Audit of BAS System Implementation for the Census Bureau

This announcement memo initiates an audit to assess the Department’s efforts to transition Census Bureau financial operations to the Business Applications Solution.

Report Number 2025-510

U.S. Census Bureau (Census), Office of the Secretary

Audits Initiated

01.30.2025

2025 Annual Letter to OMB re: Government Charge Card Abuse Act of 2012

Report Number OIG-25-010-M

Correspondence

01.22.2025

Semiannual Evaluations of the Status of NTIA's Broadband Grant Programs

This announcement memo initiates the 2025 semiannual evaluations of the status of NTIA-administered broadband grant programs that received funding under the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)

Audits Initiated

01.22.2025

Puerto Rico's Department of Natural and Environmental Resources Properly Disbursed Funds but Was Slow in Expending Fishery Disaster Assistance Funds

Our audit found that the Puerto Rico’s Department of Natural and Environmental Resources (PRDNER) properly disbursed and used federal funds to support its fisheries in recovering from the impacts of the damages caused by several hurricanes. However, PRDNER was slow in spending funds, as only approximately 7 percent of the total disaster assistance funds have been expended since April 1, 2020.

Report Number OIG-25-009-A

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

Audits / Evaluations