Reports

05.11.2020

Top Oversight Challenges Facing the Department of Commerce to Ensuring That Pandemic Funds Are Timely and Appropriately Spent

The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), H.R. 748, Public Law No. 116-136, was signed into law on March 27, 2020, to respond to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak and its impact on the economy, public health, state and local governments, individuals, and businesses.

Report Number OIG-20-026-M

Correspondence

04.30.2020

2020 Census: The Bureau Can Improve Oversight of Time-and-Materials Delivery Orders on the Integrated Communications Contract

We are initiating an audit of the Census Bureau's (Bureau's) integrated communications contract with Young and Rubicam, Inc.

Report Number OIG-20-025-A

U.S. Census Bureau (Census)

Audits / Evaluations

04.30.2020

Management Alert: The Census Bureau Has Not Adjudicated Hundreds of Individuals Identified as Highest-Risk in OPM Background Investigations

Attached is a management alert on the U.S. Census Bureau's (the Bureau's) backlog of un-adjudicated U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) background investigations.

Report Number OIG-20-023-M

U.S. Census Bureau (Census)

Audits / Evaluations

04.13.2020

Audit of USPTO's Efforts to Improve the Accuracy of the Trademark Register

We are initiating an audit of the United States Patent and Trademark Office's (USPTO's) efforts to improve the accuracy of the trademark register. Our audit objective is to determine whether USPTO's trademark registration process is effective in preventing fraudulent or inaccurate registrations.

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO)

04.03.2020

Request for Information to Deputy Secretary Karen Dunn Kelley from the Inspector General

On March 27, 2020, President Trump signed into law the 'Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act' or the 'CARES Act,' Public Law No. 116-136.

Report Number OIG-20-024-M

Correspondence

03.31.2020

Semiannual Report to Congress, March 2020

I am pleased to present the U.S. Department of Commerce Office of Inspector General's (OIG's) Semiannual Report to Congress for the 6 months ending March 31, 2020.

Office of the Secretary

Audits / Evaluations, Semiannual Reports to Congress

03.26.2020

Audit of the Department's Compliance with the Geospatial Data Act of 2018

In accordance with the Geospatial Data Act of 2018 (Pub. L. No. 115-254, H.R. 302, Subtitle F), we are initiating an audit of the U.S. Department of Commerce's (the Department's) collection, production, acquisition, maintenance, distribution, use, and preservation of geospatial data.

Office of the Secretary

03.24.2020

The Joint Polar Satellite System: Program Can Increase the Likelihood of Mission Success by Further Applying NASA Processes to Its Spacecraft Development Efforts

Attached is our final report on our audit of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) program.

Report Number OIG-20-021-A

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

Audits / Evaluations

03.24.2020

Audit of GOES-R Program in Achieving Launch Readiness for the GOES-T Mission

We are initiating an audit of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite–R Series (GOES-R) program.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

03.24.2020

2020 Census: The Census Bureau's Oversight of Contractor Performance During the 2018 End-to-End Test's Census Questionnaire Assistance Operation Was Deficient in Some Areas and Did Not Implement Some Lessons Learned for the Operation

Attached for your review is our final report on the audit of the U.S. Census Bureau's (the Bureau's) Census Questionnaire Assistance (CQA) operation.

Report Number OIG-20-022-A

U.S. Census Bureau (Census)

Audits / Evaluations

03.23.2020

Fiscal Year 2020 FISMA Compliance Audit

As required by the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 (FISMA), our office is initiating its fiscal year 2020 audit of the Department's information security program and practices.

Office of the Secretary