Reports

01.27.2020

EDA Should Develop a Workforce Plan and Improve its Hiring Accountability to Successfully Award and Administer the Disaster Supplemental Funds Appropriated by the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018

Attached for your review is our final report on our audit of the Economic Development Administration's (EDA's) Disaster Relief Workforce Planning.

Report Number OIG-20-014-A

Economic Development Administration

Audits / Evaluations

12.20.2019

Review of the Department's FY 2019 Compliance with Improper Payment Requirements

We are initiating a review to determine the Department's compliance with the Improper Payments Information Act of 2002, as amended by the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act of 2010 and the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Improvement Act of 2012.

Office of the Secretary

12.10.2019

IG Letter to NC Delegation re: the Census Bureau's Background Check and Hiring Process

Dear Representative Adams, Senator Burr, Representative Price, Representative Budd, and Representative Butterfield: This responds to your letter of May 31 , 2019, regarding the Census Bureau's (the Bureau's) background check and hiring process, in light of its employment of a registered sex offender at its Charlotte, North Carolina, Area Census Office (ACO).

Report Number OIG-20-012-M

U.S. Census Bureau (Census)

Correspondence

12.02.2019

Audit of FirstNet's Contract Oversight

We are initiating an audit of the First Responder Network Authority's (FirstNet's) oversight of the Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network (NPSBN) contract.

11.22.2019

FY 2019 SBIR report letter to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology

Dear Chairwoman Johnson and Ranking Member Lucas: In accordance with 15 U.S.C. § 638b(c), this letter transmits the U.S. Department of Commerce, Office of Inspector General's (OIG's) report of the requested data and information regarding cases related to the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program for FY 2019.

Correspondence

11.22.2019

FY 2019 SBIR Report Letter to Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship

Dear Chairman Rubio and Ranking Member Cardin: In accordance with 15 U.S.C. § 638b(c), this letter transmits the U.S. Department of Commerce, Office of Inspector General's (OIG's) report of the requested data and information regarding cases related to the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program for FY 2019.

Correspondence

11.22.2019

FY 2019 SBIR report letter to the House Committee on Small Business

Dear Chairwoman Velazquez and Ranking Member Chabot: In accordance with 15 U.S.C. § 638b(c), this letter transmits the U.S. Department of Commerce, Office of Inspector General's (OIG's) report of the requested data and information regarding cases related to the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program for FY 2019.

Correspondence

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

U.S. Census Bureau (Census)

Audits / Evaluations

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

Office of the Secretary

Audits / Evaluations

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

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO)

Audits / Evaluations

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

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

Audits / Evaluations