Department of Commerce OIG

Our audit objective was to determine whether the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has adequately managed its Active Directory to protect mission critical systems and data. Our review focused on fundamental security practices of Active Directory management and security control implementations of the...

This report summarizes work that we initiated and completed during this semiannual period on a number of critical Departmental activities. Over the past 6 months—in addition to issuing our annual Top Management and Performance Challenges Facing the Department of Commerce—our office issued 10 audit...

We conducted this review to determine the Department’s FY 2018 compliance with Improper Payments Information Act of 2002, as amended by the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act of 2010 and the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Improvement Act of 2012. In determining compliance, we...

The Office of Inspector General conducted an audit of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO’s) Trademark Next Generation (TMNG) system. Our audit objective was to determine whether USPTO provided effective oversight of TMNG implementation.

Our audit objectives were to (1) assess the performance of in-field address canvassing operations and (2) determine whether in-office address canvassing correctly identified blocks for the in-field address canvassing operation.

OIG performed an audit of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund Grants awarded to the Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO). The objectives of our audit were to determine whether RCO (1) claimed allowable, allocable, and...

The objective of this audit was to determine whether the risk management framework methodology adopted by the U.S. Census Bureau (Bureau) presents an accurate picture of cyber security risks, including risks associated with common controls, to Bureau management.

Our objectives were to determine whether the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission (1) claimed allowable, allocable, and reasonable costs, (2) complied with grant terms and conditions, administrative requirements, cost principles, and audit requirements, and (3) met performance requirements of the...

This report provides the results of our audit to assess the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) use of $300 million allocated by the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 (the Act) for public safety communications research and development (R&D). The objective of...

OIG's objective was to assess the cost, schedule, and technical performance of selected components of the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) program. Specifically, the objective was to assess the JPSS ground project’s efforts to complete the Block 2.0 upgrade of the ground system. OIG also set out...