Department of Homeland Security

We determined that FEMA is not meeting its monitoring of Operation Stonegarden grantee responsibilities because it does not have accurate financial data to identify grantees that require additional monitoring. Also, FEMA has included just 4 of 79 Operation Stonegarden awards made during FYs 2011–14...

Napa State Hospital must improve its policies, procedures, and business practices to account for and expend FEMA grant funds according to Federal regulations and FEMA guidelines. Specifically, it did not properly document and adequately account for project costs; comply with its overtime policy; and...

In March 2017, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) issued a summons to Twitter, Inc., regarding the @ALT_USCIS user account for the purpose of identifying the owner of the account under 19 U.S.C. 1509. During our review, we identified issues concerning CBP's policies and practices with respect...

KPMG LLP (KPMG), under contract with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Inspector General, conducted an integrated audit of DHS’ fiscal year (FY) 2017 consolidated financial statements and internal control over financial reporting. KPMG issued an unmodified (clean) opinion over the...

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...