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Independent Evaluation of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service Tornado Forecasting and Warning Services
Our objective was to assess National Weather Service (NWS) tornado forecasting and warning performance and identify potential opportunities for enhanced effectiveness. We contracted with the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), an independent firm, to perform this evaluation. Our office oversaw the evaluation’s progress to ensure that IDA performed it in accordance with the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency’s Quality Standards for Inspection and Evaluation (December 2020) and contract terms.
Since fiscal year 2011, the NWS has achieved its Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) performance goal for false alarm ratio in 9 of the last 12 years. However, the NWS has consistently fallen short of meeting performance goals for probability of detection and warning lead times for this same time period. In addition to the NWS’s limited effectiveness in forecasting and warning performance, NOAA lacks official outcome metrics to assess progress toward the Tornado Warning Improvement and Extension Program's goal of reducing the loss of life and economic losses from tornadoes, leaving this goal unmet without further improvements.
As part of its 10-year strategic Delivering for America plan, the U.S. Postal Service is redesigning its processing network and plans to invest $40 billion to create a modernized network based around regional processing and distribution centers (RPDC). The Atlanta RPDC is a one million square foot facility that opened in February 2024, consolidating operations from multiple facilities in the Atlanta region. The Postal Service approved an over $254 million investment to build out and set up the Atlanta RPDC and expects net savings of $2.6 billion over 30 years from consolidating regional operations. Efficient and effective RPDCs are critical to the success of the Postal Service’s Delivering for America plan and its goal of being financially self-sustaining.
Audit of the Office of Justice Programs Victim Assistance Funds Subawarded by the Massachusetts Office for Victim Assistance to Finex House, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts
The Office of Nuclear Energy’s Contract Award to American Centrifuge Operating, LLC (Centrus) for the High Assay Low Enriched Uranium Demonstration Project
The Management Advisory reviews expenditures related to executive transportation on car services from November 2024 to January 2025. The advisory identifies the need for updated travel policies to ensure cost-effective and justified use of government funds, aligning with the Federal Travel Regulation's "Prudent Traveler Rule." The advisory includes one recommendation to enhance documentation and justification requirements to mitigate financial risks.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector General has identified a concern with the EPA’s requirement that extramural research reports be submitted to the EPA via email.
Summary of Findings
The OIG has concerns with the EPA’s requirement that awardees submit federally funded research reports via email. Email providers go to great lengths to obscure the originating IP address from an email’s header information. This makes it very difficult to determine the location from which the email was sent. The location is useful for identifying whether a research report was sent from within the United States.
OIG conducted this review to describe the factors that affect territories' administration of HAVA grants and assess the effectiveness of the EAC’s management of HAVA grants awarded to territories.
