Department of Transportation

What We Looked At This 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 AtWe queried and downloaded 39 single audit reports prepared by non-Federal auditors and submitted to the Federal Audit Clearinghouse between April 1, 2024, and June 30, 2024, to identify significant findings related to programs directly funded by the Department of Transportation (DOT...

What We Looked At The Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Office of the Secretary of Transportation (OST) provides technical and administrative services, including information technology (IT) services, to DOT components through the Working Capital Fund (WCF). The Office of the Chief Information...

What We Looked At The Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Next Generation Air Transportation System aims to modernize the Nation’s air traffic system and provide safer and more efficient air traffic management. The Terminal Flight Data Manager (TFDM) program, an almost $1 billion part of this...

What We Looked At The Office of Inspector General (OIG) maintains a hotline for receiving allegations of fraud, waste, abuse, or mismanagement affecting U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) programs or operations. OIG received a hotline complaint alleging a hostile work environment in the Federal...

What We Looked At In 2017, the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) awarded a $138 million contract to the state-owned China Railway Rolling Stock MA Corporation (CRRC MA) for 45 passenger railcars. In 2022, three then-ranking Members of the House Transportation and...

What We Looked AtWe performed a quality control review (QCR) on the single audit that the Office of the Washington State Auditor/State Auditor's Office (SAO) performed for the City of Bellevue’s fiscal year that ended December 31, 2022. During this period, the City expended approximately $35.6...

What We Looked AtWe performed a quality control review (QCR) on the single audit that Plante & Moran, PLLC performed for the Wayne County Airport Authority’s (WCAA) fiscal year that ended December 31, 2022. During this period, WCAA expended approximately $75.4 million from U.S. Department of...

What We Looked AtWe queried and downloaded 16 single audit reports prepared by non-Federal auditors and submitted to the Federal Audit Clearinghouse between October 1, 2023, and December 31, 2023, to identify significant findings related to programs directly funded by the Department of...

What We Looked AtIn a typical year, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) awards over $20 billion in grants for transit system development and improvement, including the purchase of real property for bus facilities, bus rapid transit, light rail, heavy rail, and commuter rail projects. Through...