Department of Commerce

This report contains the results of our audit of the effectiveness of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST’s) unliquidated obligation (ULO) review policies and procedures developed in response to an OIG audit report issued in June 2013 (OIG-13-026-A). In that report, we...

For our final report on the evaluation of the budgetary controls over the Census Bureau’s Working Capital Fund, we assessed the controls for building overhead rates and distributing charges to projects, reviewed the appropriateness of the level of fund balances, and evaluated compliance with...

This our final report on fiscal year (FY) 2015 improper payment reporting. We conducted this review to comply with the requirements of the Improper Payments Information Act of 2002 (IPIA)--as amended by the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act of 2010 (!PERA) and the Improper Payments...

This report addresses the status of the Census Bureau’s (the Bureau’s) 2020 decennial program preparation and planning efforts. The Bureau maintains all known living quarters in the Master Address File (MAF). Each address in the MAF is linked to a geographic location in the Topologically Integrated...

This report provides the results of our review of a complaint received in January 2015 from a confidential complainant regarding the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS, or NOAA Fisheries) Alaska Regional Office’s use of grants and...

This is our final report on the audit of the 2015 Census Test conducted in portions of Maricopa County, Arizona. Our audit had two objectives: to assess (1) whether the Bureau’s reengineered and automated operational control system for managing fieldwork functioned as expected, and (2) the Bureau’s...

Attached is our final report on USPTO’s contracts that were awarded using other than full and open competitive (“noncompetitive”) procedures. Our objective was to determine whether these noncompetitive contract awards were properly justified.

This report provides the results of our most recent audit to evaluate the First Responder Network Authority’s (FirstNet’s) process for managing interagency agreements (IAAs), including entering into, monitoring, and closing IAAs.

We conducted this audit to examine BIS’ progress in transitioning to USXPORTS. We began this audit with two objectives: to determine whether BIS was (1) effectively and efficiently managing its transition toward using USXPORTS to perform export licensing processing and (2) using effective and...

This report details the results of our review of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) sole-source contract award to Industrial Economics, Incorporated. On April 20, 2010, an explosion on the British Petroleum (BP) Deepwater Horizon oil well drilling platform released...