Reports

03.12.2018

Audit of the U.S. Census Bureau's 2018 End-to-End Census Test: Census Questionnaire Assistance Operation

We are initiating an audit of the 2018 End-to-End Test Census Questionnaire Assistance (CQA) operation. Our objectives are to determine how previous internal assessments have informed the operation and assess how the CQA contract was planned and how its costs are being managed.

U.S. Census Bureau (Census)

03.12.2018

Audit of the U.S. Census Bureau's 2018 End-to-End Census Test's Peak Operations

We are initiating an audit of the 2018 End-to-End Census Test's Peak Operations.

U.S. Census Bureau (Census)

02.27.2018

2020 Census: The Bureau's Background Check Office Is Not Fully Prepared for the 2020 Census

Attached for your review is our final report on the audit of 2020 Census background check preparedness.

Report Number OIG-18-015-A

U.S. Census Bureau (Census)

Audits / Evaluations

02.26.2018

NOAA Could Improve Monitoring of Blanket Purchase Agreements by Complying with Key Federal Acquisition Regulation and Administration Requirements

Attached is our final audit report on our audit of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) use of blanket purchase agreements (BPAs).

Report Number OIG-18-014-A

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

Audits / Evaluations

02.22.2018

Audit of Census Bureau Oversight and Practices to Close Out Contract Files

We are initiating an audit to assess closing out completed contracts at the Census Bureau.

U.S. Census Bureau (Census)

02.22.2018

Former Research Oceanographer Sentenced for Accepting a Salary from the People's Republic of China

A former research oceanographer in the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, has been sentenced for accepting a salary from the People's Republic of China.

Investigations

02.16.2018

Audit of the U.S Census Bureau's CEDCaP Program

We are conducting an audit of the Census Bureau's Census Enterprise Data Collection and Processing (CEDCaP) program to determine whether critical systems will be ready to test during the 2018 End-to-End Census Test (E2E Test).

02.15.2018

Audit of the Census Bureau's Decennial Cloud-Based Systems

We are initiating an audit of the Census Bureau's cloud-based systems supporting the 2020 Decennial Census.

U.S. Census Bureau (Census)

02.15.2018

Fiscal Year 2018 FISMA Compliance Audit

As required by the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 (FISMA), OIG is initiating its fiscal year 2018 audit of the Department's information security program and practices.

02.08.2018

Audit of USPTO's Active Directory

As required by the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014, we are imitating an audit on USPTO's Active Directory (AD).

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO)

Audits / Evaluations

02.02.2018

Former Attorney Sentenced to Prison for Money Laundering

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A former attorney was sentenced today to seven years in prison for conspiring to launder over $2 million dollars derived from a business email compromise scheme and for attempting to launder funds he believed to be the proceeds of smuggling illegal aliens into the United States and trafficking firearms in Africa.

Investigations