Tennessee Valley Authority

We reviewed TVA's ethics practices and identified industry best practices which TVA could implement including (1) an ethics committee to oversee the ethics initiative, (2) a communication strategy that ensures all employees have ethics information, (3) requiring all employees to complete ethics...

We assessed the extent COO organizations were complying with the work management requirements outlined in COO SPP 7.0, COO Work Management. The work management process includes the "establishment of Program elements required to manage work in a safe, reliable, environmentally conscious, and...

We determined TVA was overbilled $56,023 (out of $5.3 million that had been billed) for services performed at BFN Unit 1 by a subcontractor. The overbilling occurred because the subcontractor used a craft labor classification that was not provided for by its subcontract. We also determined the...

We reviewed TVA's progress in complying with federal security requirements. We found that TVA's security program structure is adequate to meet federal requirements, and TVA is making substantial progress in correcting significant security deficiencies. Summary Only

We reviewed the physical and environmental controls at two of TVA's data centers to determine the adequacy of (1) physical controls to ensure only authorized access to system resources and (2) environmental controls to appropriately protect computing assets from hazards. We determined both data...

We reviewed $615.5 million TVA paid a contractor from 1999 through 2004 for providing modification and supplemental maintenance services for TVA's fossil plants. We questioned $833,655, including (1) payroll taxes and G&A costs where recovery rates for these costs had been applied to non-salary...

We reviewed controls pertaining to program and data backup storage and retrieval for TVA's data centers and the physical controls of an offsite storage facility to determine if controls surrounding the backup storage and retrieval process were adequate to ensure ongoing system operations, and if...

We compared invoiced vendor/terminal weights to TVA delivered weights for both WCF rail and barge coal deliveries. We found (1) significant variances between vendor/terminal invoiced weights and TVA delivered weights, (2) weights were not recorded for many coal shipments, and (3) delivery weight...

We found no instance where TVA's external auditor's reviews of TVA interim financial information for the third quarter of FY 2005 did not comply with Government Auditing Standards in all material respects, including required communications to appropriate parties.

The Office of the Inspector General performed an audit to determine if TVA’s security controls were appropriately configured to protect corporate Wi-Fi networks. Our scope was limited to Wi-Fi networks maintained by TVA’s Technology and Innovation organization. We determined TVA’s security controls...