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Department of Justice
Audit of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Western New York Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory – Buffalo, New York
Department of Defense's Efforts to Maintain, Operate, and Sustain the Afghan Automated Biometrics Identification System: Audit of Costs Incurred by Ideal Innovations Inc.
As required by the Inspector General Act of 1978 (as amended), this Semiannual Report summarizes the activities of the Department of Transportation Office of Inspector General for the preceding 6-month period.
Financial Audit of the Conservation and Management in Protected Areas: Participatory Biodiversity Monitoring in Amazonian Protected Areas Program in Brazil Managed by Instituto de Pesquisas Ecolgicas, Cooperative Agreement AID-512-A-16-00002, January 1 t
Audit of Community Service Grants Awarded to the Board of Education, Columbus City School District, (WCBE-FM), Columbus, Ohio, for the Period July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2018, Report No. ASR1912-2005
Congress, NIH, and Federal intelligence agencies have raised concerns about foreign threats to the integrity of U.S. medical research and intellectual property. This includes foreign programs that may unduly influence and capitalize on NIH-funded research. In August 2018, NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins raised concerns that peer reviewers-who review applications for NIH extramural grants and have unique access to confidential information in those applications-were, in some cases, inappropriately sharing this information with foreign entities. Subsequently, Congress appropriated funding for OIG to conduct oversight of NIH grant programs and operations, including examining the effectiveness of NIH's efforts to protect intellectual property derived from NIH-supported research. This study describes and assesses NIH's oversight of peer reviewers' handling of confidential information.