Tennessee Valley Authority

TVA's Nuclear Quality Assurance (QA) provides monitoring and assessment of plant activities to ensure they are conducted in a quality manner. Periodically, reviews are performed (internal and external) of QA that identify improvement opportunities. Due to the importance of QA's role in monitoring...

The Office of the Inspector General previously conducted an evaluation of Environmental Permitting and Compliance (EP&C) (Evaluation Report 2016-15366 issued September 28, 2016) to identify strengths and risks that could impact EP&C’s organizational effectiveness. Our final report identified several...

The Office of the Inspector General audited the adequacy of the Tennessee Valley Authority's (TVA) process to surplus and dispose of information technology (IT) equipment due to the risk of (1) protected information disclosure and (2) environmental compliance and regulatory compliance violations...

The Office of the Inspector General conducted a review of Human Resources (HR) to identify operational and cultural strengths and risks that could impact HR's organizational effectiveness. Our report identified strengths within HR related to (1) organizational alignment, (2) collaboration within the...

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Standard Programs and Processes (SPP) 04.021, TVA Inventory Management Process, defines "surplus" as material that is not expected to be used within the next 3 years by TVA. Due to the risk of disposing of needed materials, and as a result of employee concerns...

The Office of the Inspector General conducted an evaluation of Safety and Performance Improvement (SPI) to identify strengths and risks that could impact SPI's organizational effectiveness. Our evaluation identified strengths within SPI related to (1) organizational alignment, (2) customer focus, (3...

Due to concerns identified in a prior review related to the length of time Transmission and Power Supply (TPS) direct charge materials had been stored at the Muscle Shoals Distribution Center (MSDC), we initiated an evaluation to determine if TPS direct charge materials were being managed...

The Office of the Inspector General audited cyber security of the Tennessee Valley Authority's (TVA) gas secure rooms that provide remote logical access to all TVA gas fired plants. We found the architecture, current standard programs and processes, and draft standard operating procedures contain...

The Office of the Inspector General conducted a review of Talent Acquisition and Diversity (TAD) to identify strengths and risks that could impact TAD's organizational effectiveness. Our evaluation identified strengths within TAD related to (1) organizational alignment, (2) collaboration, (3)...

The Office of the Inspector General audited Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Internet-accessible Web sites to identify cyber security weaknesses through penetration testing. In summary, 37 Internet-accessible Web sites were tested, and 7 high risk vulnerabilities were identified. Two of the high...