Department of Transportation

What We Looked AtHigh value assets (HVA) are information systems, information, and data for which unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction could have a significant impact on U.S. national security, or public health and safety of the American people. Given the...

What We Looked AtThe American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) established the Aviation Manufacturing Jobs Protection (AMJP) program in March 2021. To support the program, the ARPA appropriated $3 billion in funding via the Department of Transportation (DOT) through September 2023 for eligible companies...

What We Looked AtWe performed a quality control review on the single audit that Crosslin PLLC performed for the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) of Nashville, TN. During this period, MTA expended approximately $32 million from U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) programs. Crosslin determined...

What We Looked AtThis report presents the results of our quality control review (QCR) of an audit of the Department of Transportation's (DOT) information security program and practices. The Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 (FISMA) requires agencies to develop, implement, and...

What We Looked AtMoving international cargo across the United States-Mexico border, including via long-haul trucks, is essential to our economy. Pursuant to the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) Implementation Act, in August 2021, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA)...

What We Looked AtWe queried and downloaded 93 single audit reports prepared by non-Federal auditors and submitted to the Federal Audit Clearinghouse between April 1, 2023, and June 30, 2023, to identify significant findings related to programs directly funded by the Department of Transportation (DOT...

What We Looked AtThis report presents the results of our quality control review (QCR) of an attestation examination of the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Enterprise Services Center (ESC) controls. ESC provides financial management services to DOT and other agencies and operates under the...

What We Looked AtOver the past 10 years, the Department of Transportation (DOT) and its Operating Administrations (OA) have increased their migration to and adoption of cloud computing based on Federal requirements. In May 2021, the President issued Executive Order 14028 to modernize Federal...

What We Looked AtWe performed a quality control review (QCR) on the single audit that Eide Bailly LLP performed for the Riverside County Transportation Commission’s (RCTC) fiscal year that ended June 30, 2021. During this period, RCTC expended approximately $626.8 million from U.S. Department of...

What We Looked AtOn March 24, 2015, Germanwings Flight 9525 crashed in the Alps, killing all 150 people on board. The crash was due to deliberate actions by the copilot. According to the final accident report, the copilot started to suffer from severe depression in 2008. In July 2009, and each year...