Federal Reports

We contracted with Ernst & Young LLP (EY), an independent certified public accounting firm, to perform the audit. This management letter summarizes EY’s findings and recommendations related to PBGC’s internal control deficiencies and other matters. The issues noted in this report are not significant; and, therefore, the deficiencies were not required to be reported in the Independent Auditor’s Report (AUD-2024-02) issued on November 15, 2023. In FY 2023 EY had issued four new recommendations and closed 14 prior years' recommendations with the total of six open recommendation remaining at the end of FY 2023. EY will continue working with PBGC to resolve these recommendations.

Fiscal Year 2023 Independent Evaluation of the SEC’s Implementation of the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014, Report No. 580

The United States Coast Guard’s National Maritime Center (NMC) struggled to approve merchant mariner training offered by NMCapproved third-party training providers in a timely manner, and it routinely extended merchant mariner training courses and programs past their 5-year regulatory approval period. NMC also did not have adequate quality control measures, resulting in training providers offering training that did not meet all regulatory and policy standards.

We audited costs claimed by the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency under grants awarded by the FWS through WSFR.