Department of Transportation

What We Looked AtThe Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) oversees approximately $350 billion appropriated for FHWA programs and activities by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) of 2021. To ensure proper planning and budgeting, each State Department of Transportation (State DOT) must...

What We Looked AtIn 2023, we conducted a quality control review (QCR) of Crosslin PLLC’s single audit of the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) of Nashville, TN, for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2022 (OIG Report Number QC2023046, dated September 25, 2023). In that QCR, we found that...

What We Looked At Section 502 of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Reauthorization Act of 2018 mandated that FAA report on the Agency’s progress in implementing Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) programs and that Department of Transportation (DOT) Office of Inspector...

To learn how communities across the nation responded to the pandemic, we initiated a multi-part review of six communities—two cities, two rural counties, and two Tribal reservations. This report is the first community-specific report and focuses on our work in Springfield, Massachusetts, where we...

What We Looked AtThe Federal Railroad Administration’s (FRA) recent data show that human factors, which include fatigue, remain the leading cause of reportable non-grade crossing train accidents. In particular, the rate of human factor-caused train accidents reached a 14-year high of 1.43 per...

What We LookedWe performed a quality control review (QCR) on the single audit that MSL CPAs and Advisors performed for the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority’s (GOAA) fiscal year that ended September 30, 2022. During this period, GOAA expended approximately $178 million from U.S. Department of...

What We Looked At The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act provided the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) with $10 billion in funding, including about $525 million for airport development expenses. FAA distributed these funds through its Airport Improvement Program (AIP)...

What We Looked At Each year, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) procures billions of dollars in information technologies (IT) and telecommunications (telecom) products and services in support of its mission to provide the safest and most efficient aerospace system in the world. For fiscal...

What We Looked At This report presents the results of our quality control review of Allmond & Company LLC’s (Allmond) management letter for its audit, conducted under contract with us, of the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation’s (GLS) financial statements for fiscal year 2023...

What We Looked AtThis report presents the results of our quality control review of KPMG LLP’s management letter for its audit, conducted under contract with us, of the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) consolidated financial statements for fiscal years 2023 and 2022. The management letter...