Tennessee Valley Authority OIG

The Office of the Inspector General conducted a review of the Financial Operations and Performance (FO&P) organization to identify factors that could impact FO&P’s organizational effectiveness. Our report identified behaviors that positively affected FO&P. These included leadership actions and other...

In this semiannual period, our audit, evaluation, and investigative activities identified more than $2 million in questioned costs, funds to be put to better use, recoveries, fees, waste/other monetary loss, and shared opportunities for TVA to improve its programs and operations.

This investigation was initiated after concerns were reported to the Office of the Inspector General that the duties of a managed-task contract employee working at TVA placed him in a position to direct TVA contracts to his company. While it was determined that, as a contractor, criminal conflict of...

The Office of the Inspector General conducted a review of Hydro Generation (Hydro) to identify operational and cultural strengths and risks that could impact the organizational effectiveness of Hydro as a whole. Our review was based on the results of our prior evaluations in the five Hydro areas and...

The Office of the Inspector General audited TVA’s Insider Threat Program (ITP) to determine if TVA had a program established to address insider threats that was consistent with best practices. We found several areas where TVA’s ITP was consistent with best practices. Additionally, we found TVA had...

As part of our annual audit plan, we audited the allocation of labor expenses in the Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) Information Technology (IT) organization. Our audit objective was to determine if financial transactions for labor charged to Operations and Maintenance and Capital general ledger...

The Office of the Inspector General audited TVA’s backup verification of mission essential data to determine if TVA’s backups were being performed in accordance with business requirements and industry best practice. In summary, we determined that TVA’s backups of mission essential data included...

The Office of the Inspector General included an audit of TVA’s Maximo vendor master file in our annual audit plan due to the risk of improper payments associated with the large amount of payments processed annually using Maximo data. Our audit objective was to determine if TVA’s Maximo vendor master...

Due to the importance of identifying and correcting safety issues, we performed an evaluation to determine if corrective actions were being implemented to address observations identified through the TVA Observation Program (TOP). We found corrective actions were generally being implemented to...

Working in industrial environments is inherently dangerous and steps must be taken to ensure the safety of personnel performing work on energized equipment. The Tennessee Valley Authority’s clearance procedures establish standardized clearance requirements to ensure equipment is isolated from its...