Federal Reports

NASA awarded a $383 million contract in 2019 to Bechtel National, Inc. to design and build a second mobile launcher—the ground structure that will assemble, process, transport, and launch a larger variant of the SLS rocket and Orion capsule to the Moon beginning with the Artemis IV mission. In this report, we examined whether NASA is meeting cost, schedule, and performance goals for the contract.

This flash report presents our finding concerning duplicate Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF) grant awards to institutions of higher education.1 This report includes a recommendation to enhance the U.S. Department of Education’s (Department) ability to prevent, identify, and correct duplicate HEERF grant awards.We identified 25 duplicate HEERF grant awards that OPE made to 24 schools, totaling about $73 million, which had not been corrected and documented in G5 as of August 2021. OPE officials stated that their processes for reviewing and approving HEERF applications and awards, which evolved over time, resulted in OPE identifying and correcting many duplicate HEERF grant awards. However, we found that OPE’s processes did not always prevent or timely identify and correct duplicate HEERF grant awards, and that OPE did not consistently document activities taken to correct duplicate awards.

External peer review of the Farm Credit Administration Office of Inspector General's audit organization, conducted by the Federal Trade Commission Office of Inspector General.

This follow-up evaluation was conducted to assess whether inspection rates of treatment, storage, and disposal facilities have changed since our earlier 2016 report on the same topic: OIG Report No. 16-P-0104, EPA Has Not Met Statutory Requirements for Hazardous Waste Treatment, Storage and Disposal Facility Inspections, but Inspection Rates Are High, issued March 11, 2016.