Department of Transportation

What We Looked AtAccording to U.S. Bank, Department of Transportation (DOT) employees made more than 327,000 purchase card transactions—totaling $223.7 million—from October 2016 through March 2018. In 2013, we reported several internal control weaknesses in the Department’s purchase card program...

What We Looked AtWe performed a quality control review (QCR) on the single audit that RSM US LLP performed for the City of Corpus Christi's (City) fiscal year that ended September 30, 2018. During this period, the City expended approximately $9.2 million from U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT)...

What We Looked AtOn March 9, 2015, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) established requirements for air carriers to implement a formal, top down approach to identifying and managing safety risks, known as safety management systems (SMS). However, recent events have raised concerns about FAA's...

What We Looked AtBetween 2009 and 2011, Congress cumulatively appropriated $10.2 billion for the High Speed Intercity Passenger Rail (HSIPR) program. As of April 2019, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), responsible for this program, has disbursed $8.5 billion of those funds, with...

What We Looked AtWe queried and downloaded 84 single audit reports prepared by non-Federal auditors and submitted to the Federal Audit Clearinghouse between September 1, 2019 and December 31, 2019, to identify significant findings related to programs directly funded by the Department of...

What We Looked AtUnder the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) Circular, Accounting of Drug Control Funding and Performance Summary (Circular), when drug-related obligations total less than $50 million and a detailed accounting would be an unreasonable burden, agencies may submit...

What We Looked AtUnder the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) Circular Accounting of Drug Control Funding and Performance Summary (Circular), when drug-related obligations total less than $50 million and a detailed accounting would be an unreasonable burden, agencies may submit...

Enacted in January 2016, the Grants Oversight and New Efficiency Act requires Federal agencies to report to Congress and the Department of Health and Human Services on open grant and cooperative agreement awards whose periods of performance have been expired for at least 2 years, and take...

What We Looked AtThe Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrative Services Franchise Fund is a Government-run, fee-for-service organization that aims to foster competition, increase efficiency, and reduce costs across the Federal Government. The Fund has six service organizations and...

What We Looked AtAllegiant Air—the Nation’s 11th largest passenger airline—grew faster than the airline industry as a whole in 2018 by carrying approximately 14 million passengers. However, incidents at this air carrier—including a series of in-flight engine shutdowns, aborted takeoffs, and...