Department of Commerce

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...

This is our audit of the effectiveness of U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO’s) controls over information technology equipment issued to employees participating in the Patents Hoteling Program (PHP). The objective of our audit was to assess the effectiveness of USPTO’s controls over PHP...

The Cybersecurity Act of 2015 (the Act) requires that each office of inspector general (OIG) submit a report to Congress on the national security systems and systems that provide access to personally identifiable information (PII) operated by or on behalf of its department. The objective of this...

This is our final report on OIG’s audit of CS China operations. We conducted this audit as part of our FY 2015 audit plan. Our audit objectives were to (1) assess the roles and responsibilities of Commerce staff components in China and the adequacy of cost-sharing agreements; (2) assess the adequacy...

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...