Federal Reports

This interim report presents the results of our self-initiated audit of mail delivery, customer service, and property conditions at the Renton Main Post Office (MPO) in Renton, WA (Project Number 22-097). The Renton MPO is in the Washington District of the WestPac Area and services ZIP Codes 98055 and 98058, which serves about 68,271 people and is considered to be an urban community. We judgmentally selected the Renton MPO based on the number of customer inquiries per route the unit received. From December 1, 2021, through February 28, 2022, the unit received 23.73 inquiries per route, which was more than the average of 13.52 inquiries per route for all sites serviced from the Seattle Processing and Distribution Center (P&DC) and the South Delivery Distribution Center (DDC).

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.