Department of Commerce

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...

This final report documents the results of our audit on the effectiveness of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’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 report, we...

Department of Commerce DATA Act Readiness

This is our audit of the International Trade Administration’s (ITA’s) Enforcement and Compliance’s (E&C’s) efforts to ensure timely and accurate preliminary and final determinations for antidumping duty (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) proceedings, including investigations and administrative...

This is our audit of the Economic Development Administration’s (EDA’s) fiscal years (FYs) 2014 and 2015 solicitation, evaluation, and selection processes for Public Works (PW) and Economic Adjustment Assistance (EAA) grant recipient selections. Our objective was to evaluate the effectiveness of EDA...

For this audit, our objective was to evaluate the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s (NTIA’s) management of the State and Local Implementation Grant Program (SLIGP). We also reviewed the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST’s) related grants administration...

This is our final report on the evaluation of the Census Bureau’s 2020 decennial program preparation and planning efforts. We initiated our evaluation of the 2016 Census Test to review (1) the effectiveness of the new management structure and (2) the effectiveness of the operational control system...