Department of Commerce

This memorandum accompanies the U.S. Department of Commerce Office of Inspector General report on the Department’s Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014 (DATA Act) submission for the first quarter of fiscal year (FY) 2019. The DATA Act, in part, requires federal agencies to report...

The objective of this report is to summarize key findings identified in 2013 reports and in 2016 followup reports produced by 13 Federal agency Offices of Inspectors General (OIGs) regarding original and derivative classification and Classified National Security Information (CNSI) program management...

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...