Nuclear Regulatory Commission OIG

The Annual Plan provides the audit and investigative strategies and associated summaries of the specific work planned for the coming year.In addition, it sets forth the OIG’s formal process for identifying priority issues and managing its workload and resources for FY 2024. Since 2014, the NRC OIG...

The OIG contracted with CliftonLarsonAllen, LLP (CLA) to conduct a vulnerability assessment and an external penetration test of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) information system environment in support of the NRC’s fiscal year (FY) 2023 Federal Information Security Modernization Act...

For this year’s review, IGs were required to assess 20 Core IG FISMA Reporting Metrics and 20 Supplemental IG FISMA Reporting Metrics across five security function areas — Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover — to determine the effectiveness of their agencies’ information security program...

The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) initiated this Special Inquiry following a radioactive release to the environment from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) test reactor located in Gaithersburg, Maryland on February 3, 2021. After the release, the NIST test reactor was...

In October 1987, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) contracted with Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) to operate a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC), with the principal focus to provide support for the NRC’s activities in licensing a deep geologic repository for...