Department of Homeland Security

We determined that the Coast Guard does not have sufficient controls to adequately identify information technology (IT) acquisition programs. Although the Coast Guard approved the procurement of approximately $1.8 billion of IT investments between fiscal years 2014 and 2016, it does not know if...

The report objective was to emphasize the potential challenges that FEMA will face in providing Public Assistance funding for facilities that may have sustained damages from back-to-back disasters. Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria — some of the most catastrophic disasters in recent United States...

Statement of John Roth, Inspector General Department of Homeland Security, before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform U.S. House of Representatives concerning, “Recommendations and Reforms from the Inspectors General"

We identified lessons learned regarding insurance findings and recommendations we reported in previous audit reports. To accomplish our objective, we compiled and summarized reportable issues concerning insurance under the Public Assistance program from our reports issued in fiscal years 2013–2017...

This year, we highlighted the underlying causes of the Department's persistent management and performance challenges, which hamper efforts to accomplish the homeland security mission efficiently and effectively. The challenges are two-fold. First, Department leadership must commit itself to ensuring...

We determined that the Department has addressed the requirements of the Cybersecurity Act of 2015. However, the Department faces challenges effectively sharing cyber threat information across Federal and private sector entities. For example, the system DHS uses does not provide the contextual data...

We determined that Richland County, North Dakota does not have legal responsibility for the disaster-related repairs on township roadway projects. Rather, the repairs are the legal responsibility of individual organized townships. In the four disasters we reviewed, funding for 283 projects totaling...

We reviewed two large projects totaling $198.9 million in expenditures that CalRecycle incurred for debris removal work. We recommended that the Regional Administrator, FEMA Region IX (1) disallow as ineligible $142.7 million ($107 million Federal share) CalRecycle has received in Federal funds for...

We made one recommendation to the Department that once implemented, should provide DHS a formal Department-level group to facilitate long-term solutions for overarching component immigration enforcement and administration challenges, and improve efficiencies. DHS concurred with our recommendation...

We determined that FEMA did not manage disaster relief grants and funds adequately and did not hold grant recipients accountable for properly managing disaster relief funds. We identified persistent problems such as improper contract costs and ineligible and unsupported expenditures as examples of...