Department of Commerce

This final report details the results of our audit of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Intellectual Property (IP) Attaché Program. Specifically, our objective was to assess management controls over the Attaché Program.

This is our final report on OIG's audit of NOAA's IT systems in response to a significant cyber attack that took place in September 2014. We conducted this audit to (1) determine the significant factors that contributed to the successful cyber attack on NOAA information systems and (2) evaluate NOAA...

This is our audit report on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Fisheries Finance Program (the Program). The purpose of our audit was to evaluate management’s controls over the Program’s loan approval, monitoring, and debt collection...

OIG contracted with BCA Watson Rice LLP (BCA) to assist in reporting on sustainability features of Comprehensive Community Infrastructure (Infrastructure) grants awarded, through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 by the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP). The...

The first evaluation was completed by September 30, 2013; a second, to be completed by September 30, 2016, was to review progress made after the first. Our audit objective was to determine whether the Department took appropriate corrective actions on recommendations made in OIG’s 2013 report.

This is our final report on the Department of Commerce’s top management and performance challenges for fiscal year (FY) 2017. We have aligned our report with the Department’s FYs 2014–2018 Strategic Plan—and, within each of the plan’s strategic goals, we discuss the challenges we have identified...

This audit provides the results of a review of a coastal restoration project in Louisiana funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS, or Fisheries) Office of Habitat Conservation. Our objectives were to determine whether Louisiana’s...

This is our final report on OIG’s audit of NOAA’s National Weather Service’s (NWS) oversight of service contracts, document retention, and reporting. Our objective was to evaluate whether NWS has adequate controls in place to ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations for personnel...

This final report documents the results of our audit on the effectiveness of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s (NTIA’s) unliquidated obligation (ULO) review policies and procedures developed since our OIG audit report issued in June 2013 (OIG-13-026-A). In our 2013...

For this audit, our objectives were to assess the adequacy of GOES-R development as the program completes system integration and test activities for the flight and ground segments in preparation for launch and data distribution, per National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and National...