NIST Should Improve Controls for Monitoring R&D Grants and Cooperative Agreements

This report provides the results of our audit to assess the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) use of $300 million allocated by the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 (the Act) for public safety communications research and development (R&D). The objective of our audit was to assess whether NIST is appropriately using funds allocated by the Act to conduct public safety communications R&D, including NIST’s management of the Public Safety Innovation Accelerator Program (PSIAP).