Department of Transportation OIG

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...

What We Looked AtThe Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) is a multibillion-dollar transportation infrastructure project that requires airspace users to purchase and install new avionics on their aircraft. This includes Automatic Dependent...

What We Looked AtWe reviewed the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's single audit report for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2017, in order to identify findings that affect directly awarded Department of Transportation programs. An independent auditor prepared the single audit report, dated December 13...

What We Looked AtWe reviewed the State of Indiana's single audit report for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2017, in order to identify findings that affect directly awarded Department of Transportation programs. An independent auditor prepared the single audit report, dated March 28, 2018.What We...