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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA's Acquisition of Next Generation Spacesuit Services
NASA awarded contracts to Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace in 2022 to compete to provide next-generation spacesuits for Artemis lunar missions and ISS operations. However, NASA and Collins agreed to remove the company’s task orders in 2024 citing an inability to meet the ISS demonstration schedule, leaving one spacesuit provider. Following this and other programmatic issues, NASA has been challenged to ensure readiness for the Artemis lunar surface mission in 2028 and the ISS before its planned decommission in 2030.
To determine to what extent the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) award and administration of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA)-funded facility and equipment (F&E) contracts meet domestic content laws and Agency requirements. Our findings are organized as follows: (1) FAA's Buy American IIJA-funded contract clauses, (2) FAA's Buy American waiver process, and (3) FAA's Buy American IIJA-funded contract data.
Why This Audit
Under IIJA, FAA received $25 billion between fiscal years 2022 and 2026 to address aging infrastructure-$5 billion of which is for F&E procurements. Enacted as part of IIJA, the Build America, Buy America Act (BABA) expanded existing domestic content laws. Our previous work identified several issues with FAA's oversight and administration of its Buy American program applicable to contracts. We initiated this audit given these previous findings, the magnitude of FAA's IIJA funding, and the intended impact of domestic content laws on the Nation's economy.
What We Found
FAA did not always include required Buy American-related clauses in IIJA-funded contracts.
FAA Contracting Officers must include all applicable Buy American-related clauses in IIJA-funded contracts. However, five of the nine contracts in our review were missing Buy American-related clauses-representing approximately $272.7 million in IIJA funds that could be put to better use.
FAA did not always properly issue Buy American waivers to support the use of foreign products in IIJA-funded contracts.
For the nine contracts included in our review, we confirmed FAA used foreign products in three of them-representing a total of $115.9 million in IIJA funds. These three contracts had Buy American waiver issues where FAA did not obtain a required waiver, did not follow the waiver approval process, and used a longstanding waiver without reassessing it.
FAA lacked complete and accurate Buy American data on its IIJA-Funded contracts.
FAA's Federal Procurement Data System-Next Generation (FPDS-NG) contained incomplete and inaccurate Buy American-related contract data, affecting DOT's ability to report accurate Buy American data to the Office of Management and Budget.
Recommendations
We made 6 recommendations to improve FAA's monitoring and enforcement of Buy American requirements for IIJA-funded contracts.
National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) Office of Inspector General (OIG) Semiannual Report to the NCUA Board and the Congress highlighting our accomplishments and ongoing work for the 6-month period ending March 31, 2026.
This Office of Inspector General (OIG) Healthcare Facility Inspection program report describes the results of a focused evaluation of the care provided at the Tomah VA Health Care System in Wisconsin.
This evaluation focused on five key content domains: • Culture • Environment of care • Patient safety • Integrated veteran care • Veteran-centered safety net
Implementation Review of Corrective Action Plan: Audit of the Calexico West Land Port of Entry Expansion and Modernization Project, Report Number A210070/P/9/R23006, March 2, 2023
