Federal Reports

This report summarizes work we initiated and completed during this semiannual period on a number of critical departmental activities. Over the past 6 months, our office issued 13 audits, inspections, and responses to Congressional requests addressing programs carried out by the Economics and Statistics Administration, National Institute of Standards and Technology, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and the Department itself.

We found that the Rehabilitation Services Administration appears to have met the Rehabilitation Long-Term Training program objectives by training recipients who subsequently performed work related to the program and that the majority of those in our sample were working in acceptable employment. However, we had concerns about the data quality of grantee reporting, and although Rehabilitation Services Administration had recently undertaken efforts designed to strengthen its monitoring process, further improvements were needed in identifying and referring noncompliant scholars for financial repayment.