Department of Commerce

Our audit objective was to determine whether the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office monetary awards were (a) granted in compliance with the relevant award criteria and (b) sufficiently documented. Our audit scope included awards related to patent examiners’ performance and productivity ratings in...

Our primary objective was to assess the adequacy of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites-R (GOES-R) program’s satellite development and testing, and the transition of launched satellites into operations. Our second objective was to monitor the program’s progress on contracting...

The objectives of our audit were to determine whether the Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission (1) claimed costs that are allowable, allocable, and reasonable; (2) complied with award terms and conditions as well as administrative requirements, cost principles, and audit requirements of federal...

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. Our audit objective was to determine whether FirstNet properly administered...

Our audit objective was to determine whether the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office contracting personnel administered contract closeout procedures in accordance with federal and Departmental policy and regulations.

Census Cloud-Based Security

Our audit objective was to determine whether the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has adequately managed its Active Directory to protect mission critical systems and data. Our review focused on fundamental security practices of Active Directory management and security control implementations of the...

This report summarizes work that we initiated and completed during this semiannual period on a number of critical Departmental activities. Over the past 6 months—in addition to issuing our annual Top Management and Performance Challenges Facing the Department of Commerce—our office issued 10 audit...

We conducted this review to determine the Department’s FY 2018 compliance with 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. In determining compliance, we...

The Office of Inspector General conducted an audit of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO’s) Trademark Next Generation (TMNG) system. Our audit objective was to determine whether USPTO provided effective oversight of TMNG implementation.