Federal Reports

The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) contracted with CG Strategy, Inc. to evaluate GPO’s transformation from a print-centric to a content-centric organization. The evaluation focused on the status of GPO’s transformation into a modern, world-class, and trusted source of published products and information.

NGA OIG Spring Semiannual Report to Congress, 1 October 2021 - 31 March 2022

The primary mission of the U.S. Postal Service’s enterprise risk management (ERM) program is to provide reasonable assurance that significant risks to and opportunity losses for the organization are systematically and effectively identified, evaluated, and mitigated where appropriate. The organization’s ERM Operating Charter (Charter) establishes the Executive Leadership Team in general and the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) in particular as having the responsibility for aligning the organization’s goals, defining roles, and driving progress with oversight by the Board of Governors’ Audit and Finance Committee. The ERM program is led by Finance, as directed by the CFO and the Vice President, Controller.

This report presents the results of our self-initiated audit of the efficiency of operations at the Seattle Processing and Distribution Center (P&DC) in Seattle, WA (Project Number 22-094). We conducted this audit to provide U.S. Postal Service management with timely information on operational risks at this P&DC. We judgmentally selected the Seattle P&DC based on overtime, penalty overtime, clearance times, and late and extra trips by Postal Vehicle Service (PVS) and Highway Contract Route drivers. The Seattle P&DC is in the Pacific Northwest Division of the Logistics and Processing Operations Western Region and processes letters, flats, and parcels. The Seattle P&DC services multiple 3-digit ZIP Codes in urban and rural communities.

The Udall Foundation made improper payments to contractors, did not adhere to some contract oversight duties, and improperly billed funding partners.