Fiscal Year 2003 Results

of OIG Efforts

The work of more than 11,000 employees of the Offi ces of 

Inspector General across government produced impressive 

results during FY 2003. Thousands of audits, investigations, and 

other reviews offered recommendations that promote economy, 

effi ciency, and effectiveness, as well as prevent and detect fraud, 

waste, and abuse in Federal programs and operations. These 

results include:

• Potential savings of nearly $18 billion.

• About 6,600 successful criminal prosecutions.

• Suspensions or debarments of over 7,600 individuals or 

businesses.

• Over 2,600 civil or personnel actions.

• More than 6,800 indictments and criminal informations.

• Nearly 200,000 complaints processed.

• Over 80 testimonies before the Congress. 

These accomplishments refl ect the work of the Federal Offi ces 

of Inspectors General, whose combined FY 2003 budgets totaled 

about $1.9 billion.
A Progress Report

to the President

President’s Council on

Integrity and Efficiency

Executive Council on

Integrity and Efficiency

Fiscal Year 2003
This report was prepared jointly by the Offices of Inspector General of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Copies of this publication can be obtained 

by contacting these offices at (202) 416-2026 or (202) 973-5003, respectively. This report is also available on the 

Inspectors General Web site, at www.ignet.gov.
Foreword

The members of the President’s Council on Integrity and Efficiency (PCIE) and the 

Executive Council on Integrity and Efficiency (ECIE) are pleased to present 

A Progress Report to the President, Fiscal Year (FY) 2003. The report captures not only 

the progress that the PCIE and ECIE have made toward achieving strategic goals 

and objectives, but also highlights the collective work and accomplishments of 

Inspectors General (IG) as a community. 

In particular, the report features the top management challenges—including information technology management, financial management, performance management 

and accountability, and procurement and grant management—that IGs believe warrant high-level attention and review at their respective agencies and across government. While this report primarily focuses on the IG community’s efforts to address 

these management challenges, it also serves as a crosswalk to the key activities that 

were reported on by individual IGs during FY 2003 and provides the corresponding 

Web site links.

During FY 2003 alone, the thousands of independent audits, investigations, inspections, evaluations, and other activities conducted by the 57 Offices of Inspector 

General (OIGs) accounted for nearly $18 billion in potentially saved and recovered 

Federal funds, as well as thousands of prosecutions, civil and personnel actions, 

and suspensions and debarments of businesses and individuals for wrongdoing. 

Additional information on the work and accomplishments of individual Offices 

of Inspector General can be found by visiting the Web site links included in Appendix A of this report or consulting the Federal IG Web site at www.ignet.gov. 

Of special significance, October 12, 2003, marked the 25th anniversary of the passage of the Inspector General Act of 1978. Over this quarter century, the Act has 

provided IGs with the independence, authority, and responsibility needed to promote economy, efficiency, and effectiveness and to prevent and detect fraud, waste, 

and abuse in Federal agencies and programs. To further recognize this important 

piece of legislation, this report features a look back at the history of the IG Act and 

how the community acknowledged its silver anniversary. 

As individual IGs and members of the PCIE and ECIE, we are committed to working together to carry out the mission established for us 25 years ago. We look 

forward to continued cooperation with the Administration and the Congress and 

welcome the opportunity to actively fulfill our roles as “agents of positive change.”

Gaston L. Gianni, Jr., Vice Chair

President’s Council on 

Integrity and Efficiency 

Barry R. Snyder, Vice Chair

Executive Council on

Integrity and Efficiency

June 8, 2004
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Table of Contents

An Overview of the Inspector General Community ........................................................................... 1

Special Feature: The Inspector General Act of 1978 and 25 Years Later .................................... 5

PCIE and ECIE Accomplishments ................................................................................................................. 9 

Goal 1. Improve Federal Programs and Operations

Goal 2. Communicate Reliable and Timely Information

Goal 3. Advocate and Implement Human Resources Development Programs 

Goal 4. Foster and Advance the Inspector General Community

Addressing Government Challenges and the President’s Initiatives ........................................ 17

OIG Statistical Accomplishments ................................................................................................................ 25

Appendices

A. Government Challenges and Management Agenda Activities Reported On by OIGs During FY 2003 ..... A-1

B. Glossary of Acronyms and Abbreviations ............................................................................................................ B-1

C. PCIE and ECIE Membership Information ............................................................................................................ C-1

D. Called to Serve ......................... D-1

Tables

Table 1. Standing PCIE Committees .......................................................................................................................... 4

Table 2. Executive Council for 2004–2005 ................................................................................................................. 15

Table 3. Agency Management Challenges Most Frequently Identified by Various OIGs ................................. 18

Table 4. FY 2003 Performance Profile ......................................................................................................................... 25

Figures

Figure 1. Recommendations That Funds Be Put to Better Use and Related Management Decisions, 

 FY 1999–FY 2003 ...................... 27

Figure 2. Management Decisions on Questioned Costs, FY 1999–FY 2003 .......................................................... 33

Figure 3. Successful Criminal Prosecutions, FY 1999–FY 2003 .............................................................................. 38

Figure 4. Criminal Indictments and Informations, FY 2001–FY 2003 ................................................................... 39

Figure 5. Successful Civil Actions from OIG Investigations, FY 1999–FY 2003 ................................................... 40

Figure 6. Suspensions and Debarments by PCIE and ECIE Member Agencies, FY 1999–FY 2003 ................... 41

Figure 7. Personnel Actions as a Result of OIG Actions, FY 1999–FY 2003 .......................................................... 42

Figure 8. Investigative Receivables and Recoveries, FY 1999–FY 2003 ................................................................. 43
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Table of Contents, Continued

FY 2003 Statistical Tables

Table I-P. PCIE—Recommendations That Funds Be Put to Better Use ............................................................... 28

Table I-E. ECIE—Recommendations That Funds Be Put to Better Use ............................................................... 29

Table II-P. PCIE—Management Decisions on Recommendations That Funds Be Put to Better Use ............... 30

Table II-E. ECIE—Management Decisions on Recommendations That Funds Be Put to Better Use .............. 31

Table III-P. PCIE—Questioned Costs ........................................................................................................................ 34

Table III-E. ECIE—Questioned Costs ........................................................................................................................ 35

Table IV-P. PCIE—Management Decisions on Questioned Costs ......................................................................... 36

Table IV-E. ECIE—Management Decisions on Questioned Costs ........................................................................ 37

Table V. PCIE and ECIE—Successful Criminal Prosecutions ................................................................................ 38

Table VI. PCIE and ECIE—Indictments and Criminal Informations ................................................................... 39

Table VII. PCIE and ECIE—Successful Civil Actions ............................................................................................. 40

Table VIII. PCIE and ECIE—Suspensions and Debarments .................................................................................. 41

Table IX. PCIE and ECIE—Personnel Actions ......................................................................................................... 42

Table X. PCIE and ECIE—Receivables and Recoveries from Successful OIG Investigations .......................... 43

Table XI. PCIE and ECIE—Percent of Investigations Conducted Jointly with Federal Investigative 

 Offices Other than OIGs ......... 44
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An Overview of the

Inspector General Community

Twenty-five years ago, the Congress passed the 

Inspector General Act of 1978. Landmark legislation 

at the time, this Act centralized the audit and investigative functions under an Inspector General (IG), 

ensuring an independent voice to the agency head, 

the Congress, and the public. The Act had a quick 

and significant impact in helping agencies repair 

serious and widespread internal control weaknesses 

and enhance efficiency and effectiveness. The IG 

concept provided a framework to help protect the 

public interest by contributing to improved government management, decision-making, oversight, and 

accountability. 

Recognizing its success, the Congress amended 

the Act several times over the years to expand the 

IG concept from the 12 Federal agencies identified 

in the 1978 legislation to include most agencies of 

the Federal government. The IG Act Amendments 

of 1988 established IGs in certain independent 

agencies, corporations, and other Federal entities, 

commonly referred to as “designated Federal entities.” Today, 57 IGs provide audit and investigative 

oversight across government.

IG Mission and Roles

In simple terms, IGs have two primary roles—to 

independently find and report on current problems, 

and to prevent future problems by fostering integrity, accountability, and excellence in government 

programs. Within their respective agencies, IGs: 

• Conduct and supervise audits, investigations, 

inspections, and evaluations of agency programs 

and operations.

• Review existing and proposed laws and 

regulations relating to agency programs and 

operations.

• Provide leadership for activities designed to promote economy, efficiency, and effectiveness, and 

to reduce fraud, waste, and abuse.

• Inform their agency heads and the Congress 

of problems in their agencies’ programs and 

operations and the need for and progress of corrective actions.

IGs also value their preventive role as independent 

“agents of positive change” within their respective agencies, while remaining ever mindful of the 

need to maintain their independence both in fact 

and appearance. For example, IGs recognize the 

importance of obtaining input from stakeholders 

on projects and areas of interest and typically draw 

on these views in developing strategic and annual 

plans. Except in special circumstances, IGs generally share report drafts with their agencies and 

respond to agency comments in final reports. IGs 

also perform certain routine activities, such as providing “technical advice” on a particular issue or 

piece of legislation to officials within their agencies 

and to the Congress, participating as non-voting 

representatives on their agencies’ senior councils, 

and offering advice and observations on management policies under development. 

In carrying out their mission, IGs report both to 

the head of their respective agencies and to the Congress. Unique in government, this dual reporting 

responsibility provides the legislative safety net that 

protects IG independence and objectivity. During 

FY 2003, Offices of Inspector General (OIGs) collectively issued nearly 4,700 reports and appeared 

some 83 times before Congressional committees. 

In addition, these OIGs closed about 22,000 investigations and processed nearly 200,000 complaints. 

These various reports include: 

Audit Reports. The IG Act requires OIG audits 

to be performed under standards established by 

the Comptroller General of the United States. In 

June 2003, the Comptroller General released a 

substantial revision to the Government Auditing 

Standards (Yellow Book), which incorporates new 

independence requirements, expands the types of 

audits to include prospective analyses and studies, 

adds “attestations” as a separate type of audit, and 

provides consistency in fieldwork and reporting 

requirements across all types of audits. The revision 

also provides guidance for ensuring that auditors 

have the necessary competence, integrity, objectivity, and independence to effectively plan, conduct, 

and report on their work. 

Inspection and Evaluation (I&E) Reports. Inspections include policy and program evaluations. Sev-
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eral OIGs use inspections as a quick way to spot test 

the effectiveness of agency programs or perform a 

broad review of certain issues. The IG community 

has adopted professional standards to promote the 

validity and independence of OIG inspections. 

Investigation Reports. In accordance with professional guidelines established by the PCIE and ECIE 

and, in certain cases, guidance from the Department 

of Justice (DOJ), OIGs investigate both criminal 

and administrative wrongdoing against agency 

programs and operations. IGs are empowered to 

investigate anyone who may have defrauded their 

agencies’ programs, including beneficiaries, contractors or grantees, or Federal officials. IGs are 

required to report suspected violations of criminal 

law directly to the Attorney General and work cooperatively with DOJ’s United States Attorneys, the 

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and other law 

enforcement agencies on criminal investigations.

Semiannual Reports to Congress. The IG Act 

specifically requires IGs to summarize their most 

significant recent reports—as well as agency 

management’s action on significant IG recommendations—in a semiannual report to the Congress. 

These reports reflect IG work and contributions. 

IG Appointments

IGs are selected on the basis of personal integrity 

and expertise in accounting, auditing, financial 

analysis, law, management analysis, public administration, or investigations. The IGs serving at 

Cabinet-level departments and sub-Cabinet agencies are nominated by the President and confirmed 

by the Senate. These IGs can be removed only by 

the President, who must communicate the reasons for any such removal to both Houses of the 

Congress. IGs in designated Federal entities are 

appointed by the heads of those entities. These IGs 

can be removed by the entity head, who must also 

notify the Congress of the reasons for removal.

At the time of this report, five PCIE OIGs were 

being led by acting IGs: the Departments of Health 

and Human Services (HHS), State and the Broadcasting Board of Governors (DOS), and the Treasury; the Social Security Administration (SSA); and 

the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA). The IG for the Export–Import Bank, 

established with the passage of the Export–Import 

Reauthorization Act of 2002, has not yet been nominated. One ECIE OIG—the Legal Services Administration—was headed by an acting IG. 

The President’s Council 

on Integrity and Efficiency and 

The Executive Council 

on Integrity and Efficiency

The PCIE and the ECIE provide leadership to the IG 

community, reaching across agency boundaries to 

promote professionalism and coordination among 

the Councils’ membership and provide a forum to 

speak out on shared concerns. The presidentially 

appointed IGs work together and coordinate their 

professional activities through the PCIE, which was 

created by Executive Order 12301, dated March 26, 

1981, and later updated in 1988 by Executive Order 

12625 and in 1992 by Executive Order 12805. The 

IGs of designated Federal entities work together 

and coordinate their professional activities through 

the ECIE, which was created by Executive Order 

12805 on May 11, 1992. 

Temporary IG Created

The Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for 

Iraq and Afghanistan Security and Reconstruction 

Act became law on November 16, 2003, creating the 

Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) to provide 

for the temporary governance of a free Iraq. This 

law also created an IG, who is appointed by the 

Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the 

Secretary of State, and as necessary, removed in 

accordance with the provisions of the IG Act. 

The CPA IG is responsible for conducting, supervising, and coordinating audits and investigations 

of the treatment, handling, and expenditure of 

appropriated funds by the CPA in Iraq, and for 

other duties and responsibilities under the IG Act. 

In carrying out its work, the CPA IG will coordinate with IGs at the Department of Defense (DOD) 

and Agency for International Development (AID). 

The CPA OIG shall terminate 6 months after the 

authorities and duties of the CPA cease to exist. 

Stuart W. Bowen, Jr. was appointed by the Secretary 

of Defense with the consent of the Secretary of State 

as the first CPA IG on January 20, 2004.
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An Overview of the Inspector General Community

3

The PCIE, in conjunction with the ECIE, maintains 

six standing committees to examine important 

issues and assist the Councils in their ongoing 

efforts to promote integrity, accountability, and 

excellence in government. The ECIE has at least one 

member on each of these committees and forms 

ad hoc committees as needed. Table 1 (page 4) 

describes the six standing committees and highlights their leadership over the past 2 years. 

PCIE members also foster working relationships 

with the Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Chief Information Officer (CIO), and the Federal Acquisition 

Councils. Selected PCIE members regularly attend 

meetings of these Councils and keep the PCIE 

membership informed about relevant issues and 

initiatives.

In addition, members of both Councils join together 

in roundtables and working groups to address a 

wide range of relevant issues, such as information 

technology security, performance management, 

misconduct in research, and competitive sourcing. 

The roundtables and working group described 

below support the standing committees in addressing issues of special interest to the IG community. 

Mission

To promote collaboration on integrity, economy, and efficiency issues that transcend individual Federal agencies 

and seek to enhance the professionalism and effectiveness of OIG personnel throughout the government.

Leadership

• As the Deputy Director for Management of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Clay Johnson III 

chairs both the PCIE and ECIE and reports to the President on their activities.

• An IG who is recommended by the members of each 

Council and approved by the Chair serves as the Vice 

Chair of that particular Council and manages its dayto-day activities. Gaston L. Gianni, Jr., IG, Federal 

Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), serves as the 

PCIE Vice Chair and Barry R. Snyder, IG, Board of 

Governors of the Federal Reserve System (FRB), serves 

as the ECIE Vice Chair.

• An Executive Council—comprised of the Vice Chairs 

of the PCIE and the ECIE, Chairs of the IG-led Committees, and one At-Large Member—was created in

 2001 by the PCIE and ECIE membership in consultation with the Chair. The Executive Council provides 

corporate leadership for the PCIE and ECIE, centralizes external communications and relationships on 

behalf of the IG community, compiles and distributes 

information regarding common priorities, and provides a long-term planning and leadership structure sanctioned by the IG community. 

Membership

Presidentially appointed IGs are members of the PCIE, and IGs of designated Federal entities are members of the 

ECIE. The Controller of OMB’s Office of Federal Financial Management, the Special Counsel from the Office of 

Special Counsel (OSC), the Director of the Office of Government Ethics (OGE), the Deputy Director of the Office of 

Personnel Management (OPM), and the Assistant Director of the FBI’s Criminal Investigative Division are members 

of both the PCIE and the ECIE. To facilitate collaboration, the PCIE Vice Chair is a member of the ECIE and the 

ECIE Vice Chair is a member of the PCIE. Appendix C lists PCIE and ECIE members beginning on page C-1.

Overview of the PCIE and the ECIE

PCIE and ECIE Leadership.

From left: Messrs. Gianni, Johnson, and Snyder.
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 • Government Performance and Results Act 

(GPRA) Roundtable, led by Nikki Tinsley, 

IG, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 

fosters and advances management performance 

and accountability by serving the IG community 

as catalysts, facilitators, and educators. 

• Information Technology (IT) Roundtable, led 

by Robert Cobb, IG, National Aeronautics and 

Space Administration (NASA), serves as a forum 

for sharing IT information and best practices 

among members of the IG community. 

• I&E Roundtable, sponsored by Johnnie Frazier, 

IG, DOC, supports the work of the I&E Committee, by conducting projects and surveys related to 

the I&E functions.

• Misconduct In Research (MIR) Working Group, 

sponsored by Christine Boesz, IG, National 

Science Foundation (NSF), educates the IG 

community about MIR issues and continues to 

develop and test standards for the conduct or 

oversight of MIR investigations.

• Competitive Sourcing Roundtable, led by Earl 

Devaney, IG, Department of the Interior (DOI), 

was established in July 2003 to facilitate discussion within the IG community regarding both the 

OIGs’ oversight role in reviewing agency implementation as well as the OIGs’ own execution of 

this governmentwide initiative.

Immediately following the special feature on the 

IG Act is a more complete overview of Council 

and community accomplishments during FY 2003. 

Additional information on PCIE, ECIE, and individual OIG activities is available at www.ignet.gov.

Table 1. Standing PCIE Committees 

 Committee Chair (2002–2003) Purpose

Audit Gregory Friedman Provides leadership and serves as a resource for the audit

 Committee IG, Department of community, to include providing oversight to the IG Auditor

 Energy (DOE) Training Institute. Works closely with the Federal Audit Executive

 Council, which is made up of Assistant IGs for Audit, and ad hoc 

 working groups to address audit-related issues.

Human Resources Nikki Tinsley Advocates human resource (HR) development opportunities 

Committee IG, Environmental for members of the PCIE and ECIE communities and assists 

 Protection Agency in ensuring the development of competent personnel.

Inspection and Johnnie Frazier Supports the I&E work of the IG community, sharing information

 Evaluation IG, Department of about current issues and best practices. Works closely with the

 Committee Commerce (DOC) I&E Roundtable, which is comprised of Assistant IGs who conduct 

 evaluations and inspections in their respective agencies.

Integrity Grant D. Ashley Receives, reviews, and refers for investigation, as appropriate,

 Committee Assistant Director, allegations of wrongdoing by IGs and, in limited cases, IG staff. 

 Criminal Division (An Executive Order dictates the Chair and Committee 

 FBI membership.)

Investigations Patrick McFarland Advises the IG community on issues involving criminal

 Committee IG, OPM investigations, investigative personnel, and investigative

 guidelines and oversees the IG Criminal Investigator Academy. 

 Works closely with the Investigations Advisory Subcommittee, 

 comprised of the Assistant IGs for Investigations.

Legislation Kenneth M. Mead Serves as the central point of information regarding legislative

 Committee IG, Department of initiatives and congressional activities that may impact the 

 Transportation (DOT) community. Keeps the PCIE and ECIE informed about relevant 

 bills and amendments that would affect IG statutory authority or 

 create new IG responsibilities.
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Special Feature: The Inspector General Act 

of 1978 and 25 Years Later

The passage of the Inspector General Act of 1978 and its subsequent amendments created independent OIGs responsible for promoting economy, efficiency, and effectiveness—and preventing and 

detecting fraud, waste, and abuse—in Federal programs and operations. Over time, OIG responsibilities have grown, most notably in the financial audit and computer security areas. In addition, the 

recent enactment of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 included provisions that extend the authority to exercise law enforcement powers to selected OIGs.

On December 1, 2003, President Bush signed S.J.Res. 18, a Joint Congressional Resolution, commending IGs for their efforts to prevent and detect waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement, and to 

promote economy, efficiency, and effectiveness in the Federal government during the past 25 years.
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The Inspector General Act of 1978

On October 12, 1978, President Jimmy Carter created independent audit and investigative offices in 12 Federal agencies 

when he signed into law the Inspector General Act of 1978. Provided below is a snapshot of why the Act was created and 

how it has matured over the last 25 years.

Where did the IG concept come from?

The IG concept was derived in part from the military custom of having an IG provide an independent review 

of the combat readiness of the Continental Army’s troops. The need for such independence existed more 

than 225 years ago. 

What was the impetus behind this 1978 Act?

In the early 1960’s, a subcommittee of the Government Operations Committee, U.S. House of 

Representatives, chaired by Congressman L. H. Fountain, began to highlight the need for 

independent statutory IGs. Further work by this same subcommittee in 1974 revealed that 

the former Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) lacked effective processes 

for investigating program fraud and abuse. In response, legislation establishing a statutory IG at HEW was enacted 2 years later. 

During congressional hearings debating the Act itself, several witnesses sounded warnings of serious adverse consequences that would result if the Act became law, and other 

witnesses questioned the constitutionality of some of the Act’s provisions. However, 

these concerns were tempered by compelling testimony of the HEW Secretary and 

IG, and the Act passed both Houses of the Congress with strong bipartisan support. 

In addition to Congressman Fountain, Senators Tom Eagleton, John Glenn, and Bill 

Roth and Congressmen Jack Brooks and Frank Horton were instrumental in passing 

the IG Act and overseeing its implementation.

How has the IG concept evolved over the past 25 years?

The basic tenets of the Act have remained constant and strong over the past quarter century. Although amended several times to add new IGs and clarify reporting 

requirements, the Act has given IGs the authority and responsibility to be independent 

voices for economy, efficiency, and effectiveness within the Federal government. Today 

57 IGs protect the integrity of government, improve program efficiency and effectiveness, 

and prevent and detect fraud, waste, and abuse in Federal agencies. 

IGs operate in a changing environment. In addition to the traditional roles of promoting 

economy and efficiency and fighting fraud, waste, and abuse, new responsibilities and challenges have emerged. The IGs are now playing a pivotal role within their agencies by conducting 

financial audits, reporting on Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) compliance and 

accountability, assessing information security efforts, identifying significant agency challenges, and 

reviewing implementation of the President’s Management Agenda. Recently, provisions in the Homeland 

Security Act of 2002 extended statutory law enforcement authority to certain OIGs that were previously 

granted these powers on an administrative basis.

Has the concept been successful?

The IG concept has proven to be of significant benefit to our government as well as to governments abroad. Each year, 

billions of dollars are returned to the Federal government or better spent based on recommendations from IG reports. IG 

investigations contribute to the prosecution of thousands of wrongdoers and recovery of billions of dollars annually. The 

IG concept of good governance and accountability also encourages foreign governments to seek our advice, with the goal 

of replicating the basic IG principles in their governments.

“On this, the 25th anniversary, I am proud to say that the Act has not only withstood the test of time, it has brought 

pronounced and prudent changes to the manner in which government does business.”

John Glenn, United States Senator,

State of Ohio, 1975-1999
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Special Feature

7

Celebrating the Inspector General Act: 25 Years Later

October 12, 2003, marked the 25th anniversary of the enactment of the IG Act. On the occasion of its silver anniversary, the 

IG community celebrated its accomplishments, reflected on opportunities for improvement, and continued efforts to educate 

various audiences about the IG mission with a series of unique activities, as follows.

Hearing

✯ On October 8, 2003, the Chair of the House Government Reform Subcommittee on Government Efficiency 

and Financial Management, Congressman Todd Platts, held an oversight hearing to examine the progress 

under the IG Act. Comptroller General David Walker, OMB Deputy Director for Management Clay 

Johnson, PCIE Vice Chair Gaston Gianni, and ECIE Vice Chair Barry Snyder testified before the 

Subcommittee.

The President

✯ On October 14, 2003, the President of the United States, George W. Bush, met with 

the IGs to honor and recognize the silver anniversary of the passage of the IG Act. The 

President applauded the IGs for their dedication to the mission of combating fraud, 

waste, and abuse to make programs work better for the taxpayers and commended 

their vigilance to remain “agents of positive change.”

Media

✯ During the second week of October, seven IGs were featured on C-span’s “Washington Journal” to discuss the mission and responsibility of the IG community 

and address issues such as homeland security, justice, transportation, space, the 

environment, banking, and government printing. 

Awards

✯ On October 16, 2003, 134 IG community awards were presented to individuals 

and groups to show recognition for their career achievements, individual accomplishments, and excellence. Three of the awards honored the “best of the best” from 

the community.

Standards

✯ During October 2003, the IG community updated and issued its Quality Standards for 

Federal Offices of Inspector General. To commemorate the 25th anniversary, the update was 

issued with a silver cover, and will be referred to as the “Silver Book.”

Open House

✯ OIGs hosted “open houses” within their agencies during October and November, with the 

goal of providing information on the mission and responsibilities of an IG.

Memorabilia

✯ The community designed a logo and poster to serve as a reminder of IG history to all who come in contact 

with the IG community. The logo has been featured on various documents and publications, including this report. 

The 25th anniversary poster, which includes the names of each OIG, illustrates the breadth of the community. (A reproduction of this poster can be found on the inside back cover of this report.)

Publication

✯ The commemorative winter edition of The Journal of Public Inquiry features commentaries and articles related to the 25th

anniversary.

“Over the past 25 years, the IGs have had a profound impact on the operation of the Federal Government....IGs have 

functioned both as ‘guardians of good government’ and ‘agents of positive change.’ ”

William V. Roth, Jr.

United States Senator, Delaware 1971–2001
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PCIE and ECIE Accomplishments

On May 29, 2001, members of the PCIE and 

ECIE adopted A Strategic Framework to guide their 

collective efforts to address governmentwide 

management challenges and fulfill their mission 

and responsibilities within their own agencies. 

The Framework provides the mission, vision, goals, 

objectives, and strategies for the Councils to follow 

over a 3-year period. FY 2002 was the first year the 

Framework was used to report on the community’s 

activities and initiatives. Now in the Framework’s

second year, we are pleased to report by goal the 

Councils’ accomplishments during FY 2003 and 

highlight ongoing initiatives.

Goal I

Improve Federal programs and operations

Objective: Provide information on crosscutting management challenges in need of 

attention from the Congress, the Administration, and others.

✯ As has been the case over the last 5 years, the 

PCIE and ECIE have compiled information 

reported by the OIGs to reveal management challenge trends facing our government. Thirty-one 

OIGs participated in this exercise and identified 

the following agency management challenges:

— Information Technology Management and 

Security

— Financial Management and CFO Statements 

— Performance Management and Accountability

— Human Capital 

— Procurement and Grant Management

— Homeland Security 

— Service to the Public

The most recent compilation of the government’s 

management challenges can be found on page 18. 

✯ On July 9, 2003, the House Committee on the 

Budget held a hearing to address fraud, waste, 

and abuse in Federal mandatory programs. 

The Committee asked IGs of the major agencies 

governed by the CFO Act to submit testimony 

describing problems in the mandatory spending 

in their respective agencies. Four IGs, representing the Departments of Agriculture (USDA), 

Education (ED), Health and Human Services 

(HHS), and Transportation (DOT), testified at the 

hearing. The FY 2003 budget resolution included 

instructions for both House and Senate Committees to identify fraud, waste, and abuse in these 

spending programs. 

Objective: Work together to effectively 

address common vulnerable management 

challenges.

✯ Through the PCIE and ECIE, the IG community 

continued to work together during FY 2003 to 

focus on the management challenges it identified. Given the IG’s statutory role in the financial 

management arena, the community devoted 

energy and resources to address various accelerated financial auditing and internal control 

issues. Also in the financial arena, the community 

took on leadership roles to assist in eliminating 

improper payments and travel and purchase 

Individually, IGs are legislatively mandated to (1) conduct, coordinate, and supervise audits and 

investigations; (2) detect and prevent waste, fraud, and abuse; and (3) promote economy, efficiency, 

and effectiveness. During FY 2003, the PCIE and ECIE focused their attention toward accomplishing these objectives for improving Federal programs and operations.

For FY 2003, the PCIE and ECIE met the goal for improving Federal programs and operations. Given its mission 

and responsibilities, the IG community will direct its energies toward meeting this goal every year.
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card abuse. OIGs actively participated in the IT 

and GPRA Roundtables to learn and share best 

practices on the IT and performance management issues facing their agencies. An expanded 

discussion of the community’s contributions to 

these and other governmentwide challenges can 

be found beginning on page 17. 

✯ Selected IGs continued their participation in the 

Comptroller General’s Domestic Working Group. 

This group, consisting of Federal IGs and state 

and local audit officials, began meeting in 2001 

to explore issues of mutual concern and complement the work of the Intergovernmental Audit 

Forum. From the start, this group has collaborated among the three levels of government by 

undertaking joint audits in the education, transportation security, and food safety and security 

areas. 

✯ During the past year, the Misconduct in Research 

Working Group further explored research misconduct and fraud and authored two articles to 

raise the awareness: 

— “Research Misconduct and its Relationship 

to Fraud,” which appeared in The Journal of 

Public Inquiry, Fall/Winter 2002, highlights 

past instances where research misconduct 

cases became criminal fraud cases and 

advocates that OIGs look to uncover research 

misconduct. 

— “Key Issues in Conflict of Interest for Scientific, Engineering and Educational Research,” 

appeared in The Journal of Research Administration and was presented in workshops during 

the Society of Research Administrators’ annual 

meeting. 

✯ During the year, working groups have formed 

to discuss various investigative initiatives. For 

example, the Southwestern Region Inspectors 

General Council has been meeting quarterly to 

identify vulnerable areas of governmentwide or 

multi-agency fraud and share expert knowledge 

in preventing and detecting fraud.

Objective: Provide information annually on 

the OIGs’ efforts to address operational 

and program improvements.

✯ In last year’s report, A Progress Report to the 

President, FY 2002, the IG community accounted 

for nearly $72 billion in potential savings and 

reported on its efforts to address operational 

and program improvements within the Federal 

government. This report also incorporated a new 

reporting approach that compared the community’s activities and initiatives against A Strategic 

Framework, graphically illustrated statistical 

information from prior years, and served as a 

resource guide by listing OIG work. The community has continued to build on this approach, 

as evidenced in this year’s report.

Goal II

Communicate Reliable and Timely Information to Maintain 

Public Confidence in the IG Community

In the current environment, demands for timely and responsive information are increasing. The 

PCIE and ECIE have recognized these demands and, during FY 2003, have sought opportunities 

to educate stakeholders by sharing the results of their efforts and keeping stakeholders apprised of 

ongoing initiatives.

The PCIE and ECIE exceeded their goal to communicate reliable and timely information to maintain public 

confidence during FY 2003. The activities promoting the 25th anniversary of the IG Act went a long way toward 

educating the Councils’ stakeholders and the public. Over the next year, the Councils will build upon these efforts to 

further enhance their communications efforts. 
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initiatives, projects, accomplishments, and 

results. 

✯ The IG community marked the 25th anniversary 

of the enactment of the IG Act by celebrating its 

accomplishments, reflecting on opportunities for 

improvement, and continuing to educate various 

audiences about the IG mission. A meeting with 

the President, a congressional hearing, and 

C-Span interviews are just a few of the activities the community participated in to recognize 

its silver anniversary. A complete listing of the 

activities is detailed on page 7. 

✯ In light of the 25th anniversary, the PCIE and 

ECIE developed a legislative proposal that not 

only reflects the priorities of IGs, but could also 

assist Congressional oversight committees in 

their possible consideration of the IG Act. Along 

these lines, the Legislation Committee developed 

a package of legislative proposals that could 

improve operations. These proposals addressed 

such issues as statutory codification of the PCIE 

and ECIE into a single “Inspectors General Council,” term of office and removal provisions for 

IGs, personnel management flexibilities, and civil 

fraud recovery. 

✯ The I&E Committee continued its outreach to 

private and other public sector groups. During the past year, this liaison work has included 

presentations to the Association of Inspectors 

General (state and local), Association of Government Accountants, American Evaluation Association, Joint Financial Management Improvement 

Project, and other professional organizations.

✯ Throughout the country and in a variety of 

forums and professional associations, PCIE and 

ECIE members or their senior executives shared 

knowledge and experiences in various conferences and workshops, presenting information on 

audit, investigative, inspection, evaluation, and 

government integrity issues and best practices. 

Objective: Establish a centralized clearinghouse for legislation, key documents, and 

commentaries of concern to the IG 

community. 

✯ IGnet is the most readily available link to the IG 

community. In addition to its role as a central 

repository for key PCIE, ECIE, and OIG reports, 

statistics, publications, related legislation, and 

other information, IGnet serves as a springboard 

Objective: Create a PCIE and ECIE public 

information function to give voice to the 

Councils and the OIG community. 

✯ For the most part, PCIE and ECIE members serve 

as the public information voice, with the Vice 

Chairs representing the Councils and individual 

members handling agency specific matters. On 

October 8, 2003, the Vice Chairs of both Councils 

testified before the House Government Reform 

Subcommittee on Government Efficiency and 

Financial Management to offer commentary on 

the 25th anniversary of the IG Act and identify 

possible legislative changes. The hearing also 

allowed OMB, the General Accounting Office 

(GAO), and Subcommittee members to recognize the IG community’s accomplishments over 

time. Individual IGs addressed issues of national 

importance related to their agency by testifying 

83 times before Congressional committees during 

FY 2003. Many IGs also appeared in newspapers 

and on national television and radio to discuss 

issues related to their agencies.

✯ Since 1995, The Journal of Public Inquiry, a semiannual publication of the IG community, has 

continued to address issues and topics important 

to its audience. The Journal provides a forum to 

share professional ideas, suggest new innovations, and chronicle changes over the years. 

The General Services Administration (GSA) IG 

currently serves as the Journal’s editor-in-chief. 

The Fall/Winter 2003, Spring/Summer 2003, and 

other editions of The Journal of Public Inquiry can 

be found on www.ignet.gov. 

✯ During FY 2003, the Vice Chairs hosted several 

delegations of foreign visitors who had a common interest in learning about issues affecting 

government integrity. In addition to receiving 

pertinent documents, visitors from the Dominican Republic, Latin America, Ireland, Central 

and Eastern Europe, Israel, Cambodia, Thailand, 

Korea, Japan, and the Philippines were briefed 

on the purpose and intent of the IG Act, the role 

of IGs as impartial advocates for better government, and the purpose and activities of the PCIE 

and ECIE. A copy of the general presentation is 

available on www.ignet.gov. 

Objective: Create a voice for informing 

and educating the Congress, Administration, and the public about the PCIE and 

ECIE and OIG roles and responsibilities, 
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to electronically connect with the Federal OIGs 

and the issues they are addressing. IGnet also 

houses links to the work of the Councils’ committees and working groups. 

✯ The Legislation Committee serves as the central 

coordinating point for legislative issues affecting the community. Using its Legislative Alert 

system, the Committee keeps IGs and their legislative liaisons up-to-date on noteworthy policy 

issues within the Administration and legislative 

developments within the Congress. 

Goal III

Advocate and Implement Human Resource Development Programs 

that Will Aid in the Recruitment and Retention of a Corps 

of Well-Trained and Highly Skilled OIG Staff Members

Objective: The PCIE and ECIE will 

establish and improve professional staff 

development programs.

✯ As a first step toward creating new or enhancing existing staff development programs, the HR 

Committee completed a comprehensive study to 

identify the core competencies of auditors, criminal investigators, evaluators, and inspectors. 

Using the study results, the HR Committee will 

work with the Audit, Investigations, and I&E 

Committees to review curricula currently offered 

in the training facilities discussed below, identify 

gaps in existing programs, and begin to close 

these gaps. As a side benefit, standardized competencies will allow staff to more easily move 

from OIG to OIG and progress from journeyman 

level to leadership and management roles. 

✯ In FY 2003, the Inspector General Criminal 

Investigator Academy expanded both its class 

offerings and classroom facilities. The Academy 

conducted 42 classes attended by 941 students 

and coordinated the attendance of 813 students 

at training programs offered by the Federal Law 

Enforcement Training Center. In addition to its 

classroom facilities in Glynco, GA, the Academy 

opened its multi-purpose classroom and office 

facilities in Rosslyn, Virginia. Those facilities, 

which opened in March 2003, are convenient 

and easily accessible to the large number of OIG 

investigative personnel working in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. The Investigations 

Committee serves as the Academy’s Board of 

Directors and sets policies, approves budgets, 

and authorizes staffing. The Academy’s FY 2003 

budget was $2.5 million, which is funded by 

assessments paid by and contributions of staff 

from the IG community.

✯ FY 2003 was the Inspectors General Auditor 

Training Institute’s (IGATI) first full year at its 

new facility in Rosslyn, Virginia. During the year, 

IGATI developed 7 new courses, which brought 

its curriculum to a total of 37 courses in the areas 

of performance management, financial auditing, 

information system auditing, management analysis, and communications. IGATI successfully 

completed over 100 training sessions involving over 1,480 students. The Audit Committee 

oversees IGATI operations and its annual budget 

The more than 11,000 auditors, investigators, evaluators, inspectors, and other employees are the 

IG community’s most critical resource. To that end, the community is looking to promote educational and professional development opportunities for its workforce to remain highly skilled and 

competitive and recognize outstanding contributions toward fulfilling the IG mission.

The IG community met its human resources goal to advocate and implement programs to maintain well-trained and 

highly skilled employees and managers. The community will continue to enhance its existing programs and look to 

develop future programs, as needed. 
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of $1.1 million. IGATI is self-funded, with its 

revenue coming from student tuition fees. 

✯ The I&E Roundtable continues to work with 

IGATI to expand its training opportunities for 

the I&E community. In addition to the IGATI 

courses, the HHS OIG developed and delivered 

a writing course designed for evaluators. Several 

OIGs were able to benefit from the training. 

✯ The IT Roundtable sponsored regular workshops for OIG staff covering new technologies, 

best and promising practices, and creative 

approaches. For example, the NASA OIG held 

a workshop designed to propagate advanced 

digital evidence collection techniques relating 

to network intrusion investigations. In addition, 

the IT Roundtable routinely handles inquiries 

from OIG IT professionals and provides support, 

New PCIE and ECIE Awards 

Recognize Exemplary Performance

During the annual PCIE and ECIE awards program held 

in October 2003, 134 individuals and groups were recognized for their outstanding performance and commitment 

to fulfilling the IG mission. In addition, the PCIE and ECIE 

recognized the “best of the best” with the introduction of three new awards in celebration of the IG Act’s 

25th anniversary. PCIE and ECIE Chair Clay Johnson along with PCIE Vice Chair Gaston Gianni and ECIE 

Vice Chair Barry Snyder presented these awards, which are the highest offered by the Councils. 

❖ ❖ ❖

Alexander Hamilton Award

Recognizes achievements in improving the integrity, efficiency, or effectiveness 

of Executive Branch agency operations. 

Presented to

The CFO Audit Team, Department of Treasury OIG

in recognition of accelerating the audit of the Treasury Department’s FY 2002 consolidated financial 

statements from 150 days to only 45 days after the fiscal year-end.

❖ ❖ ❖

Better Government Award

Recognizes contributions to the ideals of the IG Act and actions that improve 

the public’s confidence in government.

Presented to

Theresa Lehr, OIG, and Sally Clark, CFO Office, Department of Education

for their outstanding leadership on the Joint CFO Council and PCIE Erroneous Payment Work Group.

❖ ❖ ❖

Glenn/Roth Exemplary Service to the Congress Award

Recognizes achievements in furthering relations between a Department or Agency (or the community) 

and the Congress. This award was named for former Senators John Glenn and William Roth 

(deceased), who were considered by many to be the forefathers of the IG Act. 

Presented to

David Steensma, Department of Defense OIG

for assisting the Congress in the crafting of legislation to improve both Federal acquisition processes 

and financial management within the Department of Defense.
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recommendations for training, and referrals to 

colleagues. 

Objective: Develop a model for management development and succession planning 

programs. 

✯ Based in large part on its core competency work, 

the HR Committee formed a partnership with 

the OPM Federal Executive Institute to design, 

develop, and pilot an IG Leadership Development Course. The course, which addresses the 

need for developing future leaders in the IG 

community, focuses on four key areas: personal 

leadership and coaching, systems theory, creativity, and globalization. Incorporating feedback 

from the first pilot, the Committee successfully 

piloted a second, more expanded session of the 

course in January 2004. Given the success of the 

two pilots and support of the IG community, the 

HR Committee anticipates that this course will 

be the community’s primary vehicle for leadership training. 

✯ The HR Committee began exploring the feasibility of establishing a rotation program that would 

provide opportunities for “details” between and 

among OIGs. Such a program could benefit OIG 

staff by expanding their programmatic knowledge and offering new insights on OIG management operations. As organizations, OIGs could 

benefit from a rotation program by utilizing the 

new perspectives that staff from another OIG 

could bring to bear on an operational issue. The 

Committee will continue to consider rotation 

possibilities during 2004.

Goal IV

Foster and Advance the Professional Image and 

Effectiveness of the IG Community

Objective: Enhance the management 

system for the Councils to allow the IG 

community to perform in an effective and 

timely manner.

✯ In accordance with A Strategic Framework, the 

Executive Council continued to provide corporate leadership, centralized external communications, and long-term planning for the PCIE and 

ECIE. The membership of the Executive Council 

consists of the Vice Chairs of the PCIE and ECIE, 

who are appointed by the PCIE and ECIE Chair, 

Chairs of Committees under IG leadership, and 

one At-Large Member. The Executive Council 

met quarterly during FY 2003.

✯ As stipulated in A Strategic Framework, the PCIE 

held elections to democratically select the Chairs 

of the Committees under IG leadership. These 

Committee Chairs began their 2-year terms in 

January 2004. The ECIE also held an election to 

select its At-Large Member to serve a 2-year term 

on the Executive Council, beginning in January 

2004 (see Table 2).

✯ As created by Executive Order, the Integrity 

Committee receives, reviews, and investigates, 

The PCIE and ECIE provide leadership to the IG community and reach across agency boundaries 

to promote professionalism and coordination within the community. The Councils also provide a 

mechanism for sharing concerns, which may involve specific IG interests or the goals of preventing fraud, waste, and abuse in the Executive Branch. With an emphasis on standards setting and 

implementation, the Councils continued their efforts to maintain and advance the effectiveness, 

professionalism, and integrity of the IG community during FY 2003. 

The PCIE and ECIE met the goal for advancing professionalism and effectiveness. Updating existing and developing 

new standards as well as establishing processes for ensuring that standards are being upheld was a key objective for 

the IG community during FY 2003. 
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where appropriate, administrative (non-criminal) 

allegations of wrongdoing by IGs and, in certain cases, senior OIG staff. During FY 2003, the 

Integrity Committee, headed by the Assistant 

Director of the FBI’s Criminal Investigative Division, received 36 new complaints and processed 

and brought to closure 21 separate complaint 

matters, which included cases opened in previous years but not closed until FY 2003. Of the 21 

cases closed, 15 were deemed outside the Committee’s purview and referred to other agencies 

for consideration, 3 were unsubstantiated, and 

1 was closed administratively. The Committee 

supervised the investigations into two cases of alleged misconduct by OIG personnel. The investigations substantiated administrative misconduct 

and were referred to the PCIE Chair for further 

action.

Objective: Develop and keep current PCIE 

and ECIE orientation programs for new 

and current IGs on issues facing the IG 

community. 

✯ The Inspector General Criminal Investigator 

Academy continued to hold its one-day New 

IG Orientation Seminar to provide new IGs with 

a working knowledge of the issues and challenges they may face in their new position. The 

seminars are led by experienced IGs and OGE 

and OSC executives. Through presentations 

and small-group discussion, participants gain 

an understanding of the IG Act and its requirements, agency and congressional relations, and 

operational issues associated with leading an 

OIG. These seminars will be continued as new 

IGs enter the community. 

✯ At the request of the I&E Committee, the I&E 

Roundtable, under the leadership of the HHS 

OIG, surveyed the community and produced a 

report profiling the 26 I&E units that currently 

are working as distinct units within the Federal 

IG community. The survey, which covered the 

composition and function of these units, collected information that can be used to (1) illustrate 

cross-cutting issues of concern to different 

OIGs, (2) provide ideas for future OIG work 

or internal OIG management initiatives, and 

(3) educate others—especially new IGs and those 

interested in establishing evaluation units—

about the value of having I&E units to aid the 

OIGs in their mission. The results of this survey 

are one of the many topics shared with new IGs 

at their orientation program. 

✯ The PCIE and ECIE held their annual conference 

on March 24–26, 2003, to focus on “Planning 

for the Future.” The conference provided the 

Councils with an opportunity to look internally 

at their activities and think strategically on 

their direction. The conference also allowed the 

members to collaborate on various initiatives and 

exchange pertinent and valuable information. 

The IGs from the Department of Veterans Affairs 

(VA) and U.S. International Trade Commission 

(ITC) coordinated to host the conference. 

Objective: Establish and maintain professional standards for OIG operations where 

needed.

✯ Under the leadership of the Federal Deposit 

Insurance Corporation (FDIC) OIG, the Councils 

updated and reissued 

their Quality Standards 

for Federal Offices of 

Inspector General. These 

standards had not been 

updated since 1986. 

Building on and incorporating the IG Act 

and other related laws, 

these updated quality 

standards encompass 

the broad range of OIG 

activities and functions 

and set forth the overall 

Table 2. Executive Council for 2004–2005

Christine Boesz ECIE At-Large Member

Kenneth Donohue Investigations Committee

Chair

Johnnie Frazier Inspection & Evaluation 

Committee Chair

J. Russell George Legislation Committee

Chair

Gaston Gianni PCIE Vice Chair

Everett Mosley Audit Committee Chair

Barry Snyder ECIE Vice Chair 

Nikki Tinsley Human Resources 

Committee Chair
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quality framework for managing, operating, and 

conducting OIG work. To commemorate the IG 

Act’s “silver” anniversary, these standards were 

published in October 2003 with a silver cover 

and became known as the “Silver Book.” The 

complete text of the Quality Standards is available 

in hard copy and on www.ignet.gov. 

✯ On November 25, 2002, the President signed the 

Homeland Security Act of 2002. A section in the 

Act amended the IG Act of 1978 to statutorily 

authorize the exercise of law enforcement authority, which includes carrying firearms, making 

arrests, and executing warrants, to special agents 

of 24 presidentially appointed OIGs.1 The statute 

also provides the Attorney General with authority to conduct prudent oversight of the OIGs’ use 

of this law enforcement authority. As a result, 

the Investigations Committee formed a working 

group to work with DOJ representatives to draft 

the mandated Attorney General Guidelines that 

would be used to set policies and procedures 

in the exercise of this law enforcement authority. These guidelines, Attorney General Guidelines 

for Offices of Inspector General with Statutory Law 

Enforcement Authority, were approved by the 

Attorney General on December 8, 2003, and 

became effective immediately.

✯ Under the auspices of the Investigations Committee, a subgroup developed the Qualitative 

Assessment Review Guidelines for Federal Offices 

of Inspector General. This guide established an 

independent external review process to ensure 

that general and qualitative standards adopted 

by the OIGs comply with the PCIE and ECIE 

Quality Standards for Investigations and that adequate safeguards and management procedures 

exist within OIGs that exercise law enforcement powers pursuant to the IG Act and Attorney General guidelines. The Tennessee Valley 

Authority (TVA) OIG led the effort to develop 

this guide.

✯ The Investigations Committee, through its 

Advisory Subcommittee consisting of Assistant 

Inspectors General for Investigations, formed 

a working group to update the PCIE and ECIE 

Quality Standards for Investigations, last published 

in September 1997. The general and qualitative 

standards are guidelines applicable to the investigative efforts conducted by the OIG criminal 

investigators. The updated guidelines were 

published in December 2003 and are available on 

IGnet, at www.ignet.gov. 

✯ The Audit Committee established a working 

group to review the Guide for Conducting External 

Quality Control Reviews of the Audit Operations of 

Offices of Inspector General to incorporate the new 

Yellow Book standards. The Committee also created an authoritative body to answer questions 

about this peer review guidance. 

✯ With the assistance of the DOE OIG, the I&E 

Committee is updating its Quality Standards for 

Inspections. These standards were first published 

in March 1993. In addition to general updates 

and revisions, the Committee is incorporating 

recent changes to the Yellow Book, as applicable. 

A draft version of the revised standards will be 

shared within the community for comment in 

early 2004.

The next section gives a brief overview of the IG 

community’s collective efforts to address governmentwide management challenges and the President’s initiatives.

 1. Granted under separate pieces of legislation, four OIGs— the 

Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services, the 

Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, and U.S. Postal 

Service—possessed statutory law enforcement authority prior to the 

passage of the Homeland Security Act. 
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Despite progress on several fronts, the Federal 

government continues to encounter challenges and 

obstacles to good government. Over the years, OIGs 

have reported these issues to their agency heads 

to alert them to the challenges facing their agency. 

This emphasis on management challenges began in 

December 1997, when congressional leaders asked 

the Federal IGs to identify “the 10 most serious 

management problems” in their agencies. This 

request became a yearly process that was eventually 

codified into law with the enactment of the Reports 

Consolidation Act of 2000, which required agencies 

to include their OIG’s list of significant management and performance challenges in their annual 

performance and accountability reports. 

Since 1999, the PCIE and ECIE have compiled the 

individual agency results to provide the Congress 

and others responsible for overseeing government 

activities with a list of governmentwide matters that 

warrant high-level attention and review. In preparing this report, the Councils again compiled the 

management issues that present challenges for the 

near future. These challenges include: 

• Information Technology Management and 

Security

• Financial Management and CFO Statements 

• Performance Management and Accountability

• Human Capital 

• Procurement and Grant Management

• Homeland Security 

• Service to the Public

As has been the case since this effort began, IT, 

financial, and performance management issues rank 

as the highest challenges that Federal agencies must 

confront. Human capital as well as procurement 

and grant management are also priority challenges 

that numerous agencies are facing. Rounding out 

the seven challenges, homeland security and public 

service issues continue to present complexities that 

demand attention. 

The top management challenges for each agency are 

reflected in Table 3 (page 18). The IGs are committed to working with their respective agencies to 

provide practical suggestions for addressing these 

complex issues as well as working with their IG colleagues to identify ways to more effectively attend 

to these issues from a governmentwide perspective.

Not surprising, the top management challenges 

identified by OIGs over the past several years closely correlate with the reform initiatives that were targeted in the President’s Management Agenda when 

it was released in the summer of 2001. These five 

governmentwide reform initiatives include: human 

capital management, competitive sourcing, financial 

management improvement, expanded electronic 

government, and budget and performance integration as well as the added emphasis on homeland 

security activities. 

Over the next few pages, this report summarizes 

the IG community’s efforts as they relate to the top 

management challenges and the Administration’s 

governmentwide initiatives. In addition, Appendix 

A lists topics, grouped by these same areas, that 

OIGs reported on during FY 2003, and the OIG’s 

respective Web site address, as available. 

Information Technology 

Management and E-Government 

The IG community continues to report IT as the 

Federal government’s top management challenge. 

The Federal government invests about $60 billion each year in IT resources to support systems 

development, procurement, security, and electronic 

government (E-government) efforts. Clearly the 

financial investment in this area is great, but the 

importance of these systems in implementing 

programs, controlling government investments, 

serving the public, and protecting the homeland 

and its citizenry is staggering. Appendix A (page 

A-1) includes a listing of IT areas reported by OIGs 

during the past fiscal year.

IT Security Evaluations

IT security has been and continues to be a challenge facing nearly every government agency. To 

Addressing Government Challenges 

and the President’s Initiatives
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Agency1

Information

Technology

Management

& Security

Financial

Management

& CFO

Statements

Performance

Management &

Accountability

Human

Capital

Procurement

& Grant

Management

Homeland

Security

Service to

the Public

 1. The acronym or abbreviation for each agency listed below can be found in Appendix B, Glossary of Acronyms and Abbreviations, beginning 

on page B-1. 

Table 3. Agency Management Challenges Most Frequently Identified by Various OIGs, 

 as of April 2004

AID     

 DHS       

 DOC     

 DOD     

 DOE    

 DOI    

 DOJ      

 DOL     

 DOS     

 DOT     

 ED     

 EPA     

 FCA    

 FDIC       

 FLRA   

GSA      

 HHS     

 HUD      

 IRS      

 NASA    

 NLRB   

 NRC       

 NSF    

 OPM      

RRB  

 SBA     

 SSA      

 Treasury     

 USDA     

 USPS       

 VA      

 TOTAL 31 27 26 21 20 18 14
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concept to share, coordinate, and disseminate 

new and innovative information. For example, 

the Roundtable sponsored a workshop designed 

to propagate advanced digital evidence collection 

techniques relating to network intrusion investigations. These workshops offer new technologies, best 

and promising practices, and creative approaches 

for the benefit of the IG community. The Roundtable support staff maintains a publicly accessible 

Web site covering the IG community’s information 

technology activities. In addition to leading the IT 

Roundtable, the NASA OIG provides leadership for 

the various IT Roundtable working groups.

Electronic Government

OIGs across the Federal government agree that 

electronic technology can be used efficiently and 

effectively to improve services to the American 

taxpayer, and have begun reviewing E-Government 

initiatives. The focus of this work includes ensuring 

that, in the move to a more paperless process, appropriate controls are in place to safeguard sensitive 

data and critical systems. 

Improved Financial 

Management 

Since the enactment of key Federal financial management legislation during the 1990s, OIGs have 

acquired a more central role in facilitating sound 

financial management and secure financial systems. 

The IG community, and in particular the Audit 

Committee, remains committed to the financial 

audit arena and has been working with OMB and 

agency officials to develop processes and procedures to ensure timely audit opinions, produce 

useful financial information, and improve financial 

systems. 

Over the last several years, OIGs have also devoted 

their energy and resources to help their agencies 

uncover the underlying causes related to erroneous 

and improper payments and purchase and travel 

card abuse. Equally important to uncovering the 

cause, OIGs are sharing possible solutions and best 

practices to assist their agencies in minimizing these 

costly problems. Appendix A includes a listing of 

the types of financial management reports OIGs issued during FY 2003 (page A-3). The IG community 

views financial management as a critical challenge 

assist agency managers in addressing this challenge, IGs continue to conduct annual independent 

evaluations of their agencies’ information security 

programs and practices, as required by the Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 

(FISMA). These evaluations, which are due to OMB 

each September, provide the Administration and the 

Congress with useful information regarding agency 

efforts to secure their information systems, including sensitive data and operations. These reviews 

are critical as the government pushes toward its 

E-government initiatives and electronic citizen-togovernment interfacing. 

Under the leadership of the FDIC OIG, the community organized two governmentwide symposiums 

to exchange ideas and best practices for complying with FISMA. These symposiums, attended by 

CIOs, agency management, and IG staff from more 

than 30 government agencies, featured FISMArelated perspectives from GAO, OMB, and National 

Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). 

Topics discussed included challenges of implementing FISMA, overall FISMA results, OMB reporting 

requirements, and NIST standards for protecting 

information resources. The symposiums have led 

to higher quality, more efficient and effective agency 

evaluations and reporting, and greater assurance 

that Federal IT resources are better safeguarded. 

Critical Infrastructure Protection

In addition to FISMA, the Administration has continued to focus on infrastructure protection issues. 

On December 17, 2003, the President issued Homeland Security Presidential Directive 7, which established a national policy for Federal agencies to identify and prioritize the Nation’s critical infrastructure 

and key resources and to protect them from terrorist 

attacks. Included in this directive is a requirement 

for agencies to submit for OMB’s approval their 

plans for protecting their critical physical and cyber 

infrastructure. Over the years, the PCIE and ECIE, 

under the leadership of the NASA OIG, have issued two reports addressing critical infrastructure 

protection within the Federal government. Work on 

the third such report occurred during FY 2003. The 

results of this review will be reported in FY 2004.

IT Investigative Efforts

To bolster the investment that OIGs have made 

in this arena, the IT Roundtable uses a workshop 
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to the government, as evidenced by over 70 percent 

of the OIGs issuing reports on this area. 

Financial Statement Audits

Under the CFO Act, OIGs conduct financial statement audits as required for 232

 CFO agencies and 

issue opinions on the state of the agencies’ financial 

statements. The goal for each agency is to receive 

an unqualified or “clean” opinion on its financial 

statements. Since this Act was passed in 1990, financial managers from the CFO Act agencies have been 

working to obtain clean opinions from their OIG. In 

FY 2003, 20 of the 23 CFO agencies received clean 

opinions. Although not all agencies have reached 

that goal, significant improvements in financial 

management continue to be made. 

While such progress is notable, agencies still face 

major challenges to sound financial management. 

Attaining a clean opinion does not necessarily 

equate to a reliable and constant accounting operation. For example, only 3 of the 20 agencies receiving an unqualified opinion were in compliance with 

the Federal Financial Management Improvement 

Act (FFMIA) mandates or were without a material 

internal control weakness. 

While the focus for so many years has been on 

obtaining clean opinions in individual agencies, 

a significant challenge lies ahead: positioning the 

Federal government to achieve an unqualified 

opinion on the Federal government’s consolidated financial statements. Towards this end, the 

Audit Committee established a working group to 

coordinate with OMB on key efforts related to the 

proposed Treasury Post-Closing Package process. 

Another working group was established to research 

the proposed requirement for Opinions on Internal 

Controls over Financial Reporting and issue a white 

paper. Over the past year, the Financial Statement 

Audit Network has been facilitating discussions 

of financial statement-related issues and working 

collaboratively with GAO to update the governmentwide financial audit manual. The Network, a 

subcommittee of the FAEC, is comprised of auditors 

from Federal agencies, GAO, OMB, and the Federal 

Accounting Standards Advisory Board. 

Clearly, the goal of sound financial management extends beyond the CFO Act agencies. The Accountability of Tax Dollars Act of 2002 requires audited 

financial statements in about 78 more Federal agencies beginning in FY 2003. Many OIGs are involved 

in this effort. 

Accelerated Financial Statement Audits 

Over the last few years, the Administration has not 

only underscored the need for unqualified financial 

statements but has also, with its acceleration initiative, emphasized the need for more timely financial 

information. The deadline for issuing an audit 

opinion on the CFO agencies’ FY 2004 financial 

statements has gone from 5 months after, to within 

45 days of, the end of the fiscal year. 

For the FY 2003 season, OIGs at AID, ED, HHS, 

Treasury, VA, EPA, NSF, and SSA delivered audit 

opinions on financial statements that were included 

in their agencies’ Performance and Accountability 

Reports. These eight reports were issued in mid-November—achieving the acceleration initiative a year 

ahead of the schedule. OIGs in another 10 agencies 

delivered audit opinions by the end of December, 

which was one month ahead of the FY 2003 schedule. 

While certainly an impressive accomplishment for 

those agencies that met the acceleration requirements, these accelerated reporting requirements 

could be a significant challenge for other agencies 

going forward. Recognizing these challenges, the 

IG community, through the FAEC, and the CFO 

Council formed a task force to work collaboratively 

to accelerate the financial statement audit and 

reporting process. In August 2003, the task force 

sponsored a Roundtable meeting on “Accelerated 

Financial Reporting Issues and Best Practices” to 

highlight the accelerated financial reporting issues 

and answer questions on the acceleration process. 

Erroneous Payments 

Improper and erroneous payments are an over 

$35 billion problem. The Improper Payments Act 

of 2002 expanded the Administration’s efforts to 

identify and reduce erroneous payments in government programs and activities, and required all CFO 

Act agencies to submit implementation plans to 

 2. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was one 

of the original CFO Act agencies. The Homeland Security Act of 2002 

eliminated FEMA as a separate agency and incorporated its function 

into the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). DHS is not covered by the CFO Act, thus only 23 agencies were required to comply 

with the CFO Act in FY 2003.
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OMB by November 30, 2003. Consequently, agencies are carefully examining the risk of erroneous 

payments in all programs and activities they administer, including grant programs. 

In conjunction with the CFO Council, the Audit 

Committee led key efforts to facilitate the implementation of the Improper Payments Information 

Act of 2002. The Erroneous Payments Working 

Group, a joint venture with the PCIE and CFO 

Council members, has been developing benchmark 

methods to reduce improper payments and assisting OMB in establishing appropriate guidance. The 

Working Group will continue to explore this issue 

and develop guidance and best practices to assist 

the agencies in their efforts. Information describing 

the different kinds of improper and erroneous payments and suggestions for preventing such payments from occurring can be found on the IG Web 

site, www.ignet.gov. 

Purchase and Travel Card Abuse

Over the past couple of years, travel and purchase 

card abuse by employees in the Federal government 

has received much 

Congressional and 

media attention. 

Aware of the problems and outrage 

expressed by many 

concerning abuses 

associated with 

government travel 

cards, the I&E Committee issued a best 

practices guide, 

Common Problems 

and Uncommon 

Solutions: How OIGs 

are Helping Improve 

Federal Travel 

Card Programs, in 

December 2003. 

This guide synthesizes the results of reviews that 

25 OIGs conducted on travel card programs 

and serves as a primer by highlighting the most 

common problems identified by some OIGs while 

concurrently offering some proven solutions and 

best practices for fixing or avoiding these same 

problems. This publication also incorporates other 

useful information, including (1) the terms and 

conditions of GSA’s Master Contract for the Federal 

travel card program, (2) guidance that should be 

consulted in assessing a travel card program, (3) 

GAO’s Standards for Internal Control in the Federal 

Government, and (4) the roles and responsibilities of 

parties involved in the Federal travel card program. 

DOC and the Department of Labor (DOL) IGs were 

key contributors to the publication of this guide. 

Prior to issuing this publication, the I&E Committee 

issued a purchase card guide. Both guides are available at www.ignet.gov.

In addition, with input from 41 OIGs, the I&E Committee prepared a searchable on-line database of 

125 OIG reports on purchase and travel card programs in various Federal agencies. This database is 

a useful resource to OIGs and agency management 

officials, who are seeking to review or improve 

management of purchase and travel card programs. 

The directory will be expanded on a regular basis 

as more OIG reports are issued. DOC OIG had the 

lead on this project. The directory is available at 

www.ignet.gov.

Budget and Performance 

Integration 

Enacted into law in 1993, the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) laid the foundation for strategic and performance planning, goal 

setting, and performance measurement. Over the 

years, Federal departments and agencies have 

developed plans and reported on their performance 

as required by GPRA but have not always aligned 

or included this information in their budget submissions to OMB. Two years ago, OMB introduced 

the Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART) to 

evaluate the effectiveness and performance of 

selected Federal programs. 

For the second consecutive year, OMB used this 

management tool to assess the performance of 

approximately 400 Federal programs, representing 

more than $1 trillion in 2003. The GPRA Roundtable 

has shared information with OMB on the PART 

process, but to date, individual OIGs have not been 

involved in the analysis itself or in evaluating the 

process. As noted in Appendix A (page A-7), the 

IG community has continued to report on GPRA 

implementation as well as other budget and performance issues. 
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GPRA Implementation 

Implementing GPRA to achieve greater accountability and a closer link between budget and performance data continues to be a significant agency 

challenge across government. During FY 2003, more 

than 20 OIGs issued reports specifically on performance management and accountability issues. In 

addition, many OIGs have incorporated the assessment of GPRA-related performance measures as 

a standard part of their work to examine program 

efficiency and effectiveness. Key areas for improvement in this area include GPRA compliance, data 

verification and validation, performance measurement, and budget integration, to name a few. OIGs 

have also noted repeatedly that agencies need to 

upgrade their financial and program information 

systems to generate the appropriate information 

for fully integrating their budget and performance 

programs. 

Over the past year, the GPRA Roundtable hosted 

seven sessions and several ad hoc meetings on such 

topics as the Congressional perspectives on GPRA, 

building and measuring investigative performance, 

agency performance reports, human capital measurement, and PART. These sessions provide an 

avenue for about 75 participants, representing PCIE 

and ECIE member organizations, to interact with 

prominent experts and gain perspectives from the 

Administration, the Congress, and government 

think tanks. In addition, the Roundtable issued 

an OIG guide related to PART, a sample balanced 

scorecard on investigative measures, and recommendations on how the Congress can make greater 

use of GPRA for budget decisions. 

Procurement and Grant 

Management 

Under its competitive sourcing initiative, the Administration is emphasizing competition between 

Federal and private sources for certain tasks that 

are readily available in the commercial marketplace. 

Agencies are working to develop the infrastructure necessary to conduct these competitions. With 

this emphasis on “market-based” government, the 

OIGs’ independent assessment of agency contracting activities and infrastructure takes on added 

importance. 

As we have reported over the years, audits and 

investigations across the IG community continue to 

uncover lax contractor oversight in Federal procurements. A significant portion of the OIG-reported 

questioned costs and recommendations that funds 

be put to better use are the result of poor contractor 

oversight and fraudulent billing schemes. Additionally, OIG investigative work continues to confirm 

the vulnerability of programs to general contract 

fraud and embezzlement and has resulted in the recovery of billions of dollars. During FY 2003, an ad 

hoc working group addressing grant fraud issues 

sponsored a forum to discuss OMB regulatory requirements, possible indicators of grant fraud, and 

those specific categories of grants that have proven 

to be most susceptible to fraud. 

In July 2003, the IG community established its 

Competitive Sourcing Roundtable to focus attention on this governmentwide initiative. Specifically, 

the Roundtable was formed to facilitate discussion 

within the community relative to the community’s 

roles and responsibilities in the competitive sourcing arena. Since it was established, the Roundtable, 

which is sponsored by the DOI OIG, has been 

discussing both the OIG oversight role in reviewing 

agency implementation as well as the OIGs’ own 

execution of this initiative. 

As a result of the community’s work, OIGs continue 

to identify procurement and grant management as a 

major management challenge. Fourteen OIGs have 

issued reports in the competitive sourcing area as 

noted in Appendix A (page A-8). 

Human Capital Management 

During the last year, as noted in Appendix A 

(page A-9), over one-third of the OIGs conducted 

work in the human capital area. These OIGs reported that agencies could address their human capital 

issues through workforce skills and competency 

assessments, workforce restructuring, benchmarking against other Federal or private sector organizations, innovative recruitment and hiring approaches, improved training opportunities and techniques, 

and adoption of appropriate workplace tools. 

Members of the IG community agree that human 

capital management is a major challenge not only 

for their respective agencies but also within their 

own internal organizations. As discussed in the 

prior section, the IG community has continued 

to focus internally on its human capital issues by 

examining core competencies, developing a com-
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munity leadership program, and exploring possibilities for a community-based rotation program. 

Homeland Security

The events of September 11, 2001, and resulting 

unrest throughout the world have caused government leaders to examine the Nation’s vulnerabilities 

very differently and to increase the focus on protecting and securing the homeland and the public from 

harm. Many such intiatives are underway and tend 

to be concentrated in several agencies. Border protection, transportation safety, emergency management, bioterrorism threats, financial systems, identity theft, and infrastructure protection are just a 

few of the areas where individual OIGs are expending energy and resources to offer recommendations 

to their agencies to reduce these vulnerabilities. 

On March 17, 2003, the PCIE issued its report, Federal Agencies’ Controls over the Access, Disclosure, and 

Use of Social Security Numbers by External Entities. 

This report concluded that most agencies involved 

in the review had inadequate controls over access 

and use of Social Security numbers (SSN) and suggested that agencies better protect the identity of 

these numbers by strengthening controls over access and disclosure. With the leadership of the SSA 

OIG, 15 OIGs conducted individual reviews of their 

agencies and included their results in the overall 

report. 

The community is also considering a joint project 

to examine the government’s response to biological 

incidents. This review would include those agencies 

involved in the 2001 anthrax attacks and remediation of those attacks and encompass “lessons 

learned” from the events, plans or actions taken in 

response, and the current state of readiness. At least 

four OIGs may be participating in this joint project. 

The following section of the report includes the 

statistical accomplishments of the IG community 

during FY 2003 as well as graphic illustrations that 

show how we compare to prior years. Historically, 

we have provided this information for individual 

OIGs. This is the second year of the comparative 

illustrations. 
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OIG Statistical Accomplishments

The tables on the following pages consolidate 

data reported by each OIG to provide a statistical overview of the IG community’s accomplishments for FY 2003 and a visual comparison of these 

results with prior years. Appendix B of this report 

includes a complete listing of the acronyms and 

abbreviations used in these tables. In most cases, the 

statistics are consistent with the uniform reporting 

categories for each OIG’s semiannual report to the 

Congress, as defined by the IG Act. Because of data 

limitations or features peculiar to individual OIGs, 

some variations occur, as explained in the accompanying footnotes. In addition, OIGs often participate 

in multi-agency task forces or join with other OIGs 

to accomplish a common objective, which may also 

contribute to some variation between this summary 

report and the individual semiannual reports. 

Of particular note, the PCIE tables related to Recommendations that Funds Be Put to Better Use (Tables 

I-P and II-P) and Questioned Costs (Tables III-P 

and IV-P) on the following pages reflect statistics 

from the newly created DHS OIG, which came into 

being on March 1, 2003, pursuant to the Homeland 

Security Act of 2002. Consistent with this Act, DHS 

integrates 22 previously separate Federal agencies 

and programs—including FEMA and significant 

programs from DOJ and Treasury—into a single 

organization. To the extent possible, the DHS OIG 

statistics incorporate recommendations and associated results for DHS and legacy OIGs for the period 

of April 1, 2003 through September 30, 2003. The 

ECIE tables in these categories (Tables I-E through 

IV-E) were unaffected.

The investigative statistics cited in this report 

were consolidated using a methodology designed 

to identify and eliminate duplicate reporting of 

casework involving multiple OIGs. As a result, the 

statistics reported in the following tables for many 

OIGs will differ from those same investigative statistics in their semiannual reports to the Congress. 

Consistent with prior years, these statistics include 

the efforts of the OIGs when their investigations 

are conducted jointly with traditional law enforcement agencies such as the FBI, U.S. Secret Service, 

U.S. Postal Inspection Service, or state and local law 

enforcement agencies.

Table 4. FY 2003 Performance Profile

 Summary of Combined Accomplishments of PCIE and ECIE Members

Recommendations that Funds Be Put to Better Use ................................................................... $26,458,286,927

 Recommendations Agreed to by Management: Funds For Better Use 

 (may include decisions on open recommendations from FY 2002) ................................. $11,334,893,561

 Questioned Costs .............................................................................................................................. $3,112,677,749

 Recommendations Agreed to by Management: Questioned Costs 

 (may include decisions on open recommendations from FY 2002) .................................. $1,989,689,586

 Successful Criminal Prosecutions ................................................................................................................... 6,608

 Indictments and Criminal Informations ........................................................................................................ 6,826

 Civil Actions .......................... 653

 Suspensions and Debarments ......................................................................................................................... 7,607

 Personnel Actions .............. 1,999

 Investigative Receivables and Recoveries ..................................................................................... $4,468,042,262
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Funds Be Put to Better Use

The IG Act defines a recommendation that funds be 

put to better use as follows:

a recommendation by the Office that funds could 

be used more efficiently if management of an establishment took actions to implement and complete 

the recommendation, including (1) reductions in 

outlays; (2) de-obligation of funds from programs 

or operations; (3) withdrawal of interest subsidy 

costs on loans or loan guarantees, insurance, or 

bonds; (4) costs not incurred by implementing 

recommended improvements related to the operations of the establishment, a contractor, or grantee; 

(5) avoidance of unnecessary expenditures noted in 

pre-award reviews of contractor grant agreements; 

or (6) any other savings which are specifically 

identified.

For FY 2003, including Defense Contract Audit 

Agency (DCAA) audits performed in agreement 

with OIGs or agencies, PCIE member agencies recommended that approximately $26.2 billion be put 

to better use; ECIE member agencies recommended 

that approximately $230 million be put to better 

use. As shown in figure 1 below, the IG community 

as a whole recommended about $26.4 billion could 

be put to better use in FY 2003—an increase of 

$11.2 billion over total FY 2002 recommendations in 

this category. 

In FY 2003, PCIE member agency management 

agreed with approximately $11.2 billion in recommendations that funds be put to better use; ECIE 

member agency management agreed with approximately $163 million in recommendations that funds 

be put to better use. For FY 2003, Figure 1 below 

shows that management agreed with IG recommendations of about $11.3 billion in funds that 

could be put to better use. This amount is lower 

than prior fiscal years, primarily due to the timing 

of management decisions on outstanding recommendations. The FY 2002 figures were significantly 

higher because management agreed during FY 2002 

on recommendations outstanding at the end of FY 

2001. 

Recommendations that funds be put to better use 

can be resolved without an actual monetary recovery or reduction in outlays. In many cases, management may take other corrective action to remedy 

or remove the condition that led to the auditor’s 

finding. Consequently, the totals reported in these 

two categories will not typically represent monetary 

savings to the Treasury in like amount.

Figure 1. Recommendations That Funds Be Put to Better Use and Related Management 

Decisions, FY 1999–FY 2003

$ billions

1999

Recommendations That Funds Be Put to Better Use

Management Decisions on Recommendations That Funds Be Put to Better Use

0

20

40

60

80

100

2000 2001 2002 2003
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OIG OIG

Recommendations

DCAA

Recommendations1 Total

1. DCAA figures include forward pricing proposals and operations audits.

 2. DHS figures reflect only the period April 1 through September 30, 2003, and consolidate recommendations related to FEMA and certain other legacy 

OIGs. FEMA issued DCAA reports but no dollars were involved.

 3. DOD figures include forward pricing proposals and operations audits of DOD and all other reimbursable customers except where reported by another 

OIG.

 4. VA figures include better use of funds produced by its Office of Investigations ($32.3 million) and Hotline Division ($2.6 million).

Table I-P. PCIE—Recommendations That Funds Be Put to Better Use, FY 2003

AID $106,063 $76,674 $182,737 

 CNCS $119,000 $0 $119,000 

 DHS2 $24,327,524 $0 $24,327,524 

 DOC $29,583,820 $0 $29,583,820 

 DOD3 $7,073,704,000 $6,160,280,013 $13,233,984,013 

 DOE $542,354,152 $0 $542,354,152 

 DOI $80,829,497 $0 $80,829,497 

 DOJ $16,073,223 $0 $16,073,223 

 DOL $428,000,000 $0 $428,000,000 

 DOS $1,086,000 $0 $1,086,000 

 DOT $534,785,232 $0 $534,785,232 

 ED $690,232 $0 $690,232 

 EPA $748,000 $491,000 $1,239,000 

 FDIC $2,121,099 $0 $2,121,099 

 GSA $86,842,690 $0 $86,842,690 

 HHS $838,943,000 $0 $838,943,000 

 HUD $1,301,671,000 $0 $1,301,671,000 

 NASA $0 $154,222,000 $154,222,000 

 NRC $0 $0 $0 

 OPM $0 $0 $0 

 RRB $0 $0 $0 

 SBA $442,915 $0 $442,915 

 SSA $1,072,213,269 $0 $1,072,213,269 

 Treasury $5,079,000,000 $7,410,000 $5,086,410,000 

 TIGTA $1,950,906,212 $0 $1,950,906,212 

 TVA $41,706,000 $0 $41,706,000 

 USDA $698,537,723 $0 $698,537,723 

 VA4 $100,900,000 $0 $100,900,000 

TOTALS $19,905,690,651 $6,322,479,687 $26,228,170,338
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OIG OIG

Recommendations Total DCAARecommendations

Table I-E. ECIE—Recommendations That Funds Be Put to Better Use, FY 2003

Amtrak $1,463,279 $0 $1,463,279

 ARC $685,000 $0 $685,000

 CFTC $0 $0 $0

 CPB $0 $0 $0

 CPSC $0 $0 $0

 EEOC $0 $0 $0

 FCA $0 $0 $0

 FCC $0 $0 $0

 FEC $0 $0 $0

 FHFB $0 $0 $0

 FLRA $0 $0 $0

 FMC $32,000 $0 $32,000

 FRB $1,725,672 $0 $1,725,672

 FTC $18,900 $0 $18,900

 GPO $98,446 $0 $98,446

 ITC $0 $0 $0

 LSC $0 $0 $0

 NARA $84,529 $0 $84,529

 NCUA $0 $0 $0

 NEA $0 $0 $0

 NEH $0 $0 $0

 NLRB $317,000 $0 $317,000

 NSF $4,705,448 $4,073,313 $8,778,761

 PBGC $0 $0 $0

 PC $15,000 $0 $15,000

 SEC $0 $0 $0

 SI $112,941 $0 $112,941

 USPS $216,785,061 $0 $216,785,061

TOTALS $226,043,276 $4,073,313 $230,116,589
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Table II-P. PCIE—Management Decisions on Recommendations That Funds Be Put to Better 

 Use, FY 2003

AID $400,000 $182,737 $469,858 $112,494 $385 

 CNCS $1,607,000 $119,000 $42,000 $20,000 $1,644,000 

 DHS1 $46,093,834 $24,327,524 $6,020,922 $993,874 $63,406,562 

 DOC2 $9,904,829 $29,583,820 $24,082,874 $1,874,170 $13,675,585 

 DOD3, 4 $4,086,817,000 $13,233,984,013 $1,965,620,000 $1,415,127,000 $13,940,054,013 

 DOE $3,753,902,263 $542,354,152 $367,505,050 $158,350,531 $3,770,400,834 

 DOI5 $200,073,322 $80,829,497 $39,442,727 $2,600,000 $238,860,092 

 DOJ6 $3,688,893 $16,073,223 $11,479,505 $3,473,052 $3,506,215 

 DOL $889,555 $428,000,000 $717,611 $171,944 $428,000,000 

 DOS7 $17,541,000 $1,086,000 $14,857,000 $3,100,000 $670,000 

 DOT $544,100,000 $534,785,232 $315,385,000 $0 $763,500,232 

 ED $0 $690,232 $0 $0 $690,232 

 EPA8, 9 $3,622,000 $1,239,000 $15,000 $745,000 $3,627,000 

 FDIC $1,559,418 $2,121,099 $2,488,300 $1,192,217 $0 

 GSA10 $57,077,632 $86,842,690 $127,450,552 $1,190,976 $14,698,665 

 HHS11 $8,881,131,000 $838,943,000 $765,079,000 $2,816,000 $8,952,179,000 

 HUD12 $534,127,000 $1,301,671,000 $1,275,824,000 $15,720,000 $544,254,000 

 NASA13 $285,762,000 $154,222,000 $199,813,000 $35,292,000 $204,879,000 

 NRC $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 

 OPM $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 

 RRB $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 

 SBA14 $2,063,767 $442,915 $1,144,962 $0 $1,361,720 

 SSA $6,400 $1,072,213,269 $797,753,898 $134,831,943 $139,633,828 

 Treasury $6,030,000 $5,086,410,000 $5,090,195,000 $2,245,000 $0 

 TIGTA $0 $1,950,906,212 $7,654,789 $1,898,911,423 $44,340,000 

 TVA $8,567,000 $41,706,000 $44,520,000 $5,753,000 $0 

 USDA $60,544,370 $698,537,723 $49,032,556 $1,981 $710,047,556 

 VA15 $20,300,000 $100,900,000 $65,400,000 $3,500,000 $17,400,000 

TOTALS $18,525,808,283 $26,228,170,338 $11,171,993,604 $3,688,022,605 $29,856,828,919 

OIG

 1. DHS figures reflect the period April 1 through September 30, 2003, and consolidate recommendations related to FEMA and certain other legacy OIGs.

 2. DOC totals do not equal because resolution may result in values greater than the original recommendations.

 3. DOD figures include results of DCAA forward pricing proposals and operations audits of DOD and all other agencies except NASA. Therefore, the 

results of audits reported by DCAA and management decisions on DCAA audit recommendations may be reported by more than one OIG. 

 4. DOD FY 2003 beginning balance adjusted for contracts not awarded and revised audit findings and recommendations.

 5. DOI FY 2003 beginning balance differs from its FY 2002 ending balance because $114,568,918 was reinstated.

 6. DOJ FY 2003 ending balance reflects the transfer of open Immigration and Naturalization Service audit reports to DHS for follow-up.

 7. DOS FY 2003 beginning balance was revised to include adjustments for prior year errors.

 8. EPA FY 2003 beginning balance differs slightly from FY 2002 ending balance due to adjustments in its audit tracking system. 

 9. EPA FY 2003 ending figures for Recommendations with No Management Decision do not include $474,000 in recommended efficiencies that were either 

agreed to or acted upon before report issuance or were issued in a non-audit report, not otherwise entered into the agency resolution process. 

 10. GSA FY 2003 ending balance reflects an audit transferred to DHS and another audit removed from resolution.

 11. HHS opening balance adjusted to $8,881,131,000 due to amended decisions.

 12. HUD FY 2003 ending balance includes $514 million from the Audit of HUD’s Financial Statements for FY 2001 and 2000 relating to deobligation of 

funds. The matter was referred to the Comptroller General. In the interim, the Department has taken alternative actions. The matter will be resolved in 

FY 2004.

 13. NASA FY 2003 beginning balance differs from its FY 2002 ending balance due to DCAA adjustments for contracts not awarded and revised audit 

findings and recommendations. The NASA OIG portion of $115,000,000 did not change.

 14. SBA FY 2003 beginning balance differs from its FY 2002 ending balance because it began tracking recommendations made in all reports, not just audits.

 15. VA FY 2003 Recommendations Agreed to by Management were adjusted to exclude additional better use of funds produced by its Office of Investigations ($32.3 million) and Hotline Division ($2.6 million).

Recommendations

Issued in

FY 2003

Recommendations

Agreed to

by Management

Recommendations

Not Agreed to

by Management

No Management

Decision as of the

End of FY 2003

No Management

Decision

Start of FY 2003
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No Management

Decision

Start of FY 2003

Recommendations

Agreed to

by Management

Recommendations

Not Agreed to

by Management

No Management

Decision as of the

End of FY 2003

1. PC FY 2003 Recommendations Agreed to by Management includes $988,000 for an FY 2002 recommendation on which a decision was reached in 

FY 2003.

OIG Statistical Accomplishments

Recommendations

Issued in

FY 2003

Table II-E. ECIE—Management Decisions on Recommendations That Funds Be Put to Better 

 Use, FY 2003

Amtrak $0 $1,463,279 $863,279 $0 $600,000

 ARC $0 $685,000 $0 $0 $685,000

 CFTC $0 $0 $0 $0 $0

 CPB $0 $0 $0 $0 $0

 CPSC $0 $0 $0 $0 $0

 EEOC $0 $0 $0 $0 $0

 FCA $0 $0 $0 $0 $0

 FCC $0 $0 $0 $0 $0

 FEC $0 $0 $0 $0 $0

 FHFB $0 $0 $0 $0 $0

 FLRA $0 $0 $0 $0 $0

 FMC $0 $32,000 $0 $0 $32,000

 FRB $0 $1,725,672 $0 $0 $1,725,672

 FTC $0 $18,900 $18,900 $0 $0

 GPO $675,512 $98,446 $81,176 $600,512 $92,270

 ITC $0 $0 $0 $0 $0

 LSC $0 $0 $0 $0 $0

 NARA $34,700 $84,529 $68,930 $33,498 $16,801

 NCUA $0 $0 $0 $0 $0

 NEA $0 $0 $0 $0 $0

 NEH $0 $0 $0 $0 $0

 NLRB $0 $317,000 $260,000 $0 $57,000

 NSF $444,103 $8,778,761 $530,303 $4,073,313 $4,619,248

 PBGC $0 $0 $0 $0 $0

 PC1 $0 $15,000 $1,003,000 $0 $0

 SEC $0 $0 $0 $0 $0

 SI $1,003,870 $112,941 $773,762 $218,867 $124,182

 USPS $128,121,000 $216,785,061 $159,300,607 $25,916,444 $159,689,010

TOTALS $130,279,185 $230,116,589 $162,899,957 $30,842,634 $167,641,183

OIG
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Questioned Costs

The IG Act defines a questioned cost as:

a cost that is questioned by the Office because of 

(1) an alleged violation or provision of law, regulation, contract, grant, or cooperative agreement, 

or other agreement or document governing the 

expenditure of funds; (2) a finding that, at the time 

of the audit, such cost is not supported by adequate 

documentation; or (3) a finding that the expenditure of funds for the intended purpose is unnecessary or unreasonable.

During FY 2003, including DCAA audits performed 

in agreement with OIGs or agencies, PCIE member 

agencies questioned costs of approximately $3 billion, while ECIE member agencies tallied approximately $113 million in questioned costs. In total, 

FY 2003 questioned costs were about $3.1 billion. 

For FY 2003, PCIE member agency management 

agreed with approximately $1.9 billion in questioned costs; ECIE member agency management 

agreed with approximately $77 million in questioned costs. Combined, agency management 

agreed with about $2 billion of PCIE and ECIE 

recommendations. 

Questioned costs can be resolved without an actual 

monetary recovery or reduction in outlays. In many 

cases, management may take other corrective action 

to remedy or remove the condition that led to the 

auditor’s finding. Consequently, the totals reported 

in these two categories will not typically represent 

monetary savings to the Treasury in like amount.

Figure 2. Management Decisions on Questioned Costs, FY 1999–FY 2003

$ billions

1999 2000 2001 2002

Questioned Costs

Management Decisions on Questioned Costs

2003

0

1

2

3

4

5

6
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Table III-P. PCIE—Questioned Costs, FY 2003

AID $8,017,047 $5,424,289 $13,441,336 

 CNCS $3,585,000 $0 $3,585,000 

 DHS2 $55,880,953 $0 $55,880,953 

 DOC $18,848,302 $0 $18,848,302 

 DOD3 $0 $1,058,775,930 $1,058,775,930 

 DOE $4,057 $0 $4,057 

 DOI $23,346,529 $0 $23,346,529 

 DOJ $51,183,175 $0 $51,183,175 

 DOL $189,943,576 $0 $189,943,576 

 DOS $5,332,000 $0 $5,332,000 

 DOT $272,925,162 $0 $272,925,162 

 ED $162,567,292 $0 $162,567,292 

 EPA $36,471,000 $486,000 $36,957,000 

 FDIC $431,473 $0 $431,473 

 GSA $2,910,007 $0 $2,910,007 

 HHS $768,092,000 $0 $768,092,000 

 HUD $63,625,000 $0 $63,625,000 

 NASA $9,015 $78,308,000 $78,317,015 

 NRC $97,758 $107,638 $205,396 

 OPM $60,847,534 $0 $60,847,534 

 RRB $0 $0 $0 

 SBA $5,485,564 $0 $5,485,564 

 SSA $56,602,321 $0 $56,602,321 

 Treasury $0 $383,000 $383,000 

 TIGTA $4,756,697 $1,069 $4,757,766 

 TVA $3,033,436 $0 $3,033,436 

 USDA $38,118,701 $0 $38,118,701 

 VA $24,400,000 $0 $24,400,000 

TOTALS $1,856,513,599 $1,143,485,926 $2,999,999,525 

OIG

1. DCAA figures include incurred cost, Cost Accounting Standards, and defective pricing.

 2. DHS figures reflect the period April 1 through September 30, 2003, and consolidate recommendations related to FEMA and certain other legacy OIGs. 

FEMA issued DCAA reports but no dollars were involved.

 3. DOD figures include incurred cost, Cost Accounting Standards, and defective pricing of DOD and all other reimbursable customers except where 

reported by another OIG.

Costs Questioned

by DCAA1 Total

Costs Questioned

by OIG
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Table III-E. ECIE—Questioned Costs, FY 2003

 Amtrak $22,352,536 $0 $22,352,536

 ARC $388,000 $0 $388,000

 CFTC $0 $0 $0

 CPB $449,939 $0 $449,939

 CPSC $0 $0 $0

 EEOC $0 $0 $0

 FCA $0 $0 $0

 FCC $0 $0 $0

 FEC $0 $0 $0

 FHFB $0 $0 $0

 FLRA $0 $0 $0

 FMC $0 $0 $0

 FRB $585,630 $0 $585,630

 FTC $11,400 $0 $11,400

 GPO $98,066 $0 $98,066

 ITC $0 $0 $0

 LSC $0 $0 $0

 NARA $288,625 $0 $288,625

 NCUA $0 $0 $0

 NEA $538,311 $0 $538,311

 NEH $0 $0 $0

 NLRB $7,408 $0 $7,408

 NSF $3,227,233 $4,159 $3,231,392

 PBGC $0 $0 $0

 PC $0 $0 $0

 SEC $0 $0 $0

 SI $0 $0 $0

 USPS $3,088,002 $81,638,915 $84,726,917

TOTALS $31,035,150 $81,643,074 $112,678,224

OIG

Costs Questioned

by DCAA Total

Costs Questioned

by OIG
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Table IV-P. PCIE—Management Decisions on Questioned Costs, FY 2003

AID $2,490,500 $13,441,336 $6,862,696 $6,318,064 $2,751,076

 CNCS $35,437,000 $3,585,000 $721,000 $13,648,000 $24,653,000

 DHS1 $73,001,703 $55,880,953 $17,316,168 $2,428,322 $109,138,166

 DOC2 $10,742,091 $18,848,302 $15,398,493 $5,853,593 $9,091,850

 DOD3, 4 $5,841,592,000 $1,058,775,930 $794,384,000 $454,215,000 $5,651,768,930

 DOE $4,458,647 $4,057 $25,753 $0 $4,436,951

 DOI $39,501,237 $23,346,529 $29,660,440 $833,180 $32,354,146

 DOJ5 $21,162,774 $51,183,175 $38,172,982 $5,304,078 $18,452,616

 DOL6 $107,799,091 $189,943,576 $195,792,538 $11,397,425 $90,552,704

 DOS7 $17,523,000 $5,332,000 $8,342,000 $0 $14,513,000

 DOT8 $7,039,000 $272,925,162 $222,111,000 $8,941,000 $48,982,000

 ED $203,579,492 $162,567,292 $52,263,568 $4,601,000 $309,282,216

 EPA9, 10 $55,173,000 $36,957,000 $10,820,000 $28,645,000 $51,717,000

 FDIC $215,174 $431,473 $398,090 $239,182 $9,375

 GSA11 $329,376 $2,910,007 $3,159,525 $0 $35,392

 HHS12 $1,592,643,000 $768,092,000 $334,568,000 $37,286,000 $1,988,881,000

 HUD13 $37,803,000 $64,234,000 $52,666,000 $5,732,000 $43,639,000

 NASA14 $163,958,000 $78,317,015 $23,514,015 $12,249,000 $206,512,000

 NRC $38,433 $205,396 $205,396 $0 $38,433

 OPM $8,005,802 $60,847,534 $37,193,918 $3,307,136 $28,352,282

 RRB $0 $0 $0 $0 $0

 SBA $0 $5,485,564 $1,582,748 $0 $3,902,816

 SSA $9,731,554 $56,602,321 $15,540,010 $10,563,234 $40,230,631

 Treasury15 $2,418,000 $383,000 $0 $387,000 $1,661,000

 TIGTA $1,675,465 $4,757,766 $1,786,055 $4,646,107 $1,069

 TVA $0 $3,033,436 $1,125,939 $77,536 $1,829,961

 USDA16 $152,367,976 $38,118,701 $25,104,553 $17,122,258 $149,031,962

 VA $0 $24,400,000 $24,400,000 $0 $0

TOTALS $8,388,685,315 $3,000,608,525 $1,913,114,887 $633,794,115 $8,831,818,576

 1. DHS figures reflect the period April 1 through September 30, 2003, and consolidate recommendations related to FEMA and certain other legacy OIGs.

 2. DOC totals do not equal because resolution may result in values greater than the original recommendations.

 3. DCAA results for DOD include incurred cost, Cost Accounting Standards, and defective pricing of DOD and all other reimbursable customers except 

NASA. Therefore, the results of audits reported by DCAA and management decisions on DCAA audit recommendations may be reported by more than one 

OIG.

4. DOD FY 2003 beginning balance adjusted for contracts not awarded and revised audit finding and recommendations.

 5. DOJ FY 2003 ending balance reflects the transfer to DHS of questioned cost recommendations related to open Immigration and Naturalization Service 

audit reports.

 6. DOL FY 2003 beginning balance differs from its FY 2002 ending balance due to a post-reporting period adjustment of $1,605,027.

 7. DOS FY 2003 beginning balance revised to reflect adjustments for prior year errors.

 8. DOT FY 2003 figures reflect management agreement on a higher dollar amount than the outstanding recommendation. 

 9. EPA FY 2003 beginning balance differs slightly from its FY 2002 ending balance due to adjustments in its audit tracking system. 

 10. EPA figures reflect $948,000 in recommended questioned costs agreed to or acted upon before report was issued or in other non-audit reports, not 

otherwise entered into the agency resolution process. 

 11. GSA figures reflect audit transferred to DHS.

 12. HHS opening balance adjusted to $1,592,643,000 due to amended decisions.

 13. HUD figures are $609,000 more for amounts included in Office of Investigations statistics. 

 14. NASA FY 2003 beginning balance differs from its FY 2002 ending balance due to DCAA adjustments for contracts not awarded and revised audit findings and recommendations. The NASA OIG portion of $1,800,000 did not change.

 15. Treasury FY 2003 ending balance reflects the transfer to DHS of questioned cost recommendations related to the legacy U.S. Customs Service. 

 16. USDA figures reflect a variance of $772,096 between beginning and ending balances because collections agencies made exceeded the amounts 

identified in the audits.

Recommendations

Issued in

FY 2003

Recommendations

Agreed to

by Management

Recommendations

Not Agreed to

by Management

No Management

Decision as of the

End of FY 2003

No Management

Decision

OIG Start of FY 2003
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OIG

No Management

Decision

Start of FY 2003

Recommendations

Agreed to

by Management

Recommendations

Not Agreed to

by Management

No Management

Decision as of the

End of FY 2003

OIG Statistical Accomplishments

Recommendations

Issued in

FY 2003

Table IV-E. ECIE—Management Decisions on Questioned Costs, FY 2003

Amtrak $1,574,782 $22,352,536 $16,524,227 $0 $7,403,091

 ARC $30,000 $388,000 $0 $16,000 $402,000

 CFTC $0 $0 $0 $0 $0

 CPB $223,632 $449,939 $51,570 $0 $622,001

 CPSC $0 $0 $0 $0 $0

 EEOC $0 $0 $0 $0 $0

 FCA $0 $0 $0 $0 $0

 FCC $253,453 $0 $253,453 $0 $0

 FEC $0 $0 $0 $0 $0

 FHFB $0 $0 $0 $0 $0

 FLRA $0 $0 $0 $0 $0

 FMC $0 $0 $0 $0 $0

 FRB $0 $585,630 $0 $0 $585,630

 FTC $0 $11,400 $11,400 $0 $0

 GPO $76,173 $98,066 $9,640 $66,533 $98,066

 ITC $0 $0 $0 $0 $0

 LSC $0 $0 $0 $0 $0

 NARA $0 $288,625 $52,290 $0 $236,335

 NCUA $0 $0 $0 $0 $0

 NEA $0 $538,311 $347,261 $0 $191,050

 NEH $0 $0 $0 $0 $0

 NLRB $0 $7,408 $7,408 $0 $0

 NSF $1,183,111 $3,231,392 $895,255 $641,818 $2,877,430

 PBGC $0 $0 $0 $0 $0

 PC $0 $0 $0 $0 $0

 SEC $0 $0 $0 $0 $0

 SI $0 $0 $0 $0 $0

 USPS1 $219,126,404 $84,726,917 $58,422,195 $156,897,924 $88,533,202

TOTALS $222,467,555 $112,678,224 $76,574,699 $157,622,275 $100,948,805

 1. USPS FY 2002 ending balance of $219,617,994 was revised to $219,126,404, to reflect removal of $491,590 in questioned costs identified in an audit report.
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A prosecution is considered successful when the 

person or entity is convicted in Federal, state, local, 

or foreign government venues, or under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, or is accepted for 

pre-trial diversion agreements by DOJ, as a result of 

OIG activity. PCIE and ECIE member agencies had 

6,608 successful prosecutions in FY 2003, of which 

557 were based on joint investigations. 

As indicated in figure 3, the number of successful 

criminal prosecutions has averaged about 5,000 

per year over the last 5 years. Statistics for FY 2001 

through FY 2003 were calculated using a methodology to eliminate duplicative reporting of casework 

involving multiple IGs. For consistency purposes, 

the statistics reported in A Progress Report to the 

President, FY 1999, were adjusted to include those 

prosecutions where the OIG was actively involved 

in the case. No adjustments were needed for the 

statistics reported in A Progress Report to the President, FY 2000.

Figure 3. Successful Criminal Prosecutions, 

FY 1999–FY 2003

Thousands

1999 2000 2001 2002 2003

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

 AID 1 Amtrak 12

 CNCS 3 ARC 0

 DHS 97 CFTC 0

 DOC 8 CPB 0

 DOD 116 CPSC 0

 DOE 18 EEOC 0

 DOI 23 FCA 0

 DOJ 136 FCC 0

 DOL 242 FEC 0

 DOS 4 FHFB 0

 DOT 157 FLRA 0

 ED 67 FMC 0

 EPA 6 FRB 0

 FDIC 20 FTC 0

 GSA 34 GPO 3

 HHS 534 ITC 0

 HUD 488 LSC 0

 NASA 38 NARA 0

 NRC 0 NCUA 0

 OPM 8 NEA 0

 RRB 54 NEH 0

 SBA 26 NLRB 0

 SSA 2,802 NSF 1

 TIGTA 295 PBGC 0

 Treasury 4 PC 2

 TVA 6 SEC 0

 USDA 433 SI 2

 VA 403 USPS 8

Subtotal 6,023 Subtotal 28

 Total from Individual Investigations ............. 6,051

 Total from Joint Investigations .......................... 557 

 Total from Individual and Joint 

 Investigations ................................................. 6,608

OIG OIG

Successful 

Criminal

Prosecutions

Successful 

Criminal

Prosecutions

Table V. PCIE and ECIE—Successful 

Criminal Prosecutions, FY 2003

PCIE ECIE

Successful Criminal Prosecutions 

Note. Data provided by individual OIGs and adjusted by a 

methodology designed to eliminate duplicate reporting of casework 

involving multiple OIGs.
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This table represents criminal indictments and 

informations filed in a Federal, state, local, or foreign government court or under the Uniform Code 

of Military Justice, any of which result from a case 

in which an OIG has an active investigative role. 

The PCIE and ECIE agencies reported 6,826 criminal indictments and informations in FY 2003, of 

which 816 were based on joint investigations.

Figure 4. Criminal Indictments and Informations, 

FY 2001–FY 2003

Thousands

2001 2002 2003

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

Indictments and Criminal Informations 

AID 0 Amtrak 0

 CNCS 8 ARC 0

 DHS 123 CFTC 0

 DOC 8 CPB 0

 DOD 201 CPSC 0

 DOE 17 EEOC 0

 DOI 18 FCA 0

 DOJ 140 FCC 0

 DOL 359 FEC 0

 DOS 0 FHFB 0

 DOT 267 FLRA 0

 ED 86 FMC 0

 EPA 18 FRB 0

 FDIC 37 FTC 0

 GSA 28 GPO 0

 HHS 618 ITC 0

 HUD 822 LSC 0

 NASA 42 NARA 0

 NRC 1 NCUA 0

 OPM 10 NEA 0

 RRB 49 NEH 0

 SBA 32 NLRB 0

 SSA 2,030 NSF 0

 TIGTA 277 PBGC 0

 Treasury 1 PC 0

 TVA 6 SEC 0

 USDA 484 SI 0

 VA 311 USPS 17

Subtotal 5,993 Subtotals 17

 Total from Individual Investigations ............. 6,010 

 Total from Joint Investigations .......................... 816

 Total from Individual and Joint 

 Investigations ................................................. 6,826

OIG OIG

Indictments 

and Criminal

Informations

Indictments 

and Criminal

Informations

Table VI. PCIE and ECIE—Indictments and 

Criminal Informations, FY 2003

PCIE ECIE

Note. Data provided by individual OIGs and adjusted by a 

methodology designed to eliminate duplicate reporting of casework 

involving multiple OIGs.
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Civil Actions 

Civil actions are the total number of matters arising 

from OIG investigations, audits, and reviews other 

than criminal prosecutions that are successfully 

resolved during the year. They include civil judgments or forfeitures in favor of the U.S. government 

filed in Federal, local, state, or foreign government 

venues; or settlements negotiated by a prosecuting authority prior to or following the filing of a 

formal civil complaint; or judgments, settlements 

or agreements reached based on the Program Fraud 

Civil Remedies Act (PFCRA), civil money penalties, 

or other agency-specific civil litigation authority. 

Personnel actions and suspensions and debarments 

are not reported as civil actions. In FY 2003, PCIE 

and ECIE member agencies had 653 civil actions, 

55 of which resulted from joint investigations.

Figure 5. Successful Civil Actions from OIG

Investigations, FY 1999–FY 2003

Hundreds

1999 2000 2001 2002 2003

0

2

4

6

8

10

12

14

 AID 1 Amtrak 0

 CNCS 1 ARC 0

 DHS 3 CFTC 0

 DOC 1 CPB 0

 DOD 65 CPSC 0

 DOE 0 EEOC 0

 DOI 4 FCA 0

 DOJ 2 FCC 0

 DOL 1 FEC 0

 DOS 2 FHFB 0

 DOT 8 FLRA 0

 ED 16 FMC 0

 EPA 2 FRB 0

 FDIC 5 FTC 0

 GSA 3 GPO 0

 HHS 238 ITC 0

 HUD 82 LSC 0

 NASA 2 NARA 0

 NRC 0 NCUA 0

OPM 3 NEA 0

 RRB 23 NEH 0

 SBA 7 NLRB 0

 SSA 73 NSF 2

 TIGTA 2 PBGC 0

 Treasury 2 PC 0

 TVA 0 SEC 0

 USDA 14 SI 2

 VA 30 USPS 4

Subtotal 590 Subtotals 8

Total from Individual Investigations ................ 598

 Total from Joint Investigations ............................ 55

 Total from Individual and Joint 

 Investigations .................................................... 653

OIG OIG

Successful 

Civil Actions

Successful 

Civil Actions

Table VII. PCIE and ECIE—Successful Civil 

Actions, FY 2003

PCIE ECIE

Note. Data provided by individual OIGs and adjusted by a 

methodology designed to eliminate duplicate reporting of casework 

involving multiple OIGs.
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Suspensions and Debarments 

This category represents agency actions to suspend, 

restrict, or prohibit vendors/contractors, grantees, 

and other non-government entities or individuals doing business with the government. There 

were 7,607 individuals and entities suspended and 

debarred by PCIE and ECIE member agencies in 

FY 2003. Of these, 97 resulted from joint investigations by the OIGs.

Figure 6. Suspensions and Debarments by PCIE and

ECIE Member Agencies, FY 1999–FY 2003

Thousands

1999 2000 2001 2002 2003

0

2

4

6

8

10

 AID 6 Amtrak 0

 CNCS 3 ARC 0

 DHS 1 CFTC 0

 DOC 0 CPB 0

 DOD 76 CPSC 0

 DOE 7 EEOC 0

 DOI 6 FCA 0

 DOJ 0 FCC 0

 DOL 31 FEC 0

 DOS 0 FHFB 0

 DOT 12 FLRA 0

 ED 13 FMC 0

 EPA 4 FRB 0

 FDIC 0 FTC 0

 GSA 109 GPO 0

 HHS 3,284 ITC 0

 HUD 396 LSC 0

 NASA 2 NARA 0

 NRC 0 NCUA 0

 OPM 3,410 NEA 0

 RRB 0 NEH 0

 SBA 2 NLRB 0

 SSA 0 NSF 1

 TIGTA 0 PBGC 0

 Treasury 0 PC 0

 TVA 0 SEC 0

 USDA 120 SI 0

 VA 9 USPS 18

Subtotal 7,491 Subtotals 19

Total from Individual Investigations ............. 7,510

 Total from Joint Investigations ............................ 97

 Total from Individual and Joint 

 Investigations ................................................. 7,607

OIG OIG

Suspensions

and 

Debarments

Suspensions

and 

Debarments

Table VIII. PCIE and ECIE—Suspensions 

and Debarments, FY 2003

PCIE ECIE

Note. Data provided by individual OIGs and adjusted by a 

methodology designed to eliminate duplicate reporting of casework 

involving multiple OIGs.
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Personnel Actions 

Personnel actions are the total number of reprimands, suspensions, demotions, or terminations of 

Federal, state, and local (and Federal contractor or 

grantee) employees as a result of OIG actions. During FY 2003, PCIE and ECIE member agencies initiated 1,999 personnel actions, 11 of which resulted 

from joint investigations.

Figure 7. Personnel Actions as a Result of OIG 

Actions, FY 1999–FY 2003

1999 2000 2001 2002 2003

0

500

1,000

1,500

2,000

 AID 16 Amtrak 51

 CNCS 0 ARC 0

 DHS 19 CFTC 0

 DOC 12 CPB 0

 DOD 21 CPSC 0

 DOE 45 EEOC 1

 DOI 77 FCA 3

 DOJ 143 FCC 1

 DOL 29 FEC 0

 DOS 15 FHFB 0

 DOT 29 FLRA 0

 ED 5 FMC 0

 EPA 12 FRB 4

 FDIC 3 FTC 0

 GSA 34 GPO 6

 HHS 5 ITC 2

 HUD 120 LSC 0

 NASA 79 NARA 6

 NRC 28 NCUA 8

 OPM 3 NEA 0

 RRB 0 NEH 0

 SBA 7 NLRB 43

 SSA 33 NSF 3

 TIGTA 756 PBGC 2

 Treasury 21 PC 2

 TVA 42 SEC 15

 USDA 52 SI 8

 VA 211 USPS 16

Subtotal 1,817 Subtotals 171

Total from Individual Investigations ...................1,988

 Total from Joint Investigations ...................................11

 Total from Individual and Joint 

 Investigations ........................................................1,999

OIG OIG

Personnel

Actions

Personnel

Actions

Table IX. PCIE and ECIE—Personnel 

Actions, FY 2003

PCIE ECIE

Note. Data provided by individual OIGs and adjusted by a 

methodology designed to eliminate duplicate reporting of casework 

involving multiple OIGs.
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Investigative receivables and recoveries are based 

on the total dollar value of: 

A) Criminal cases—the amount of restitution, 

criminal fines, and/or special assessments based 

on a criminal judgment or established through a 

pre-trial diversion agreement; 

B) Civil cases—the amount of damages, penalties and/or forfeitures resulting from judgments issued by any court (Federal, local, state, 

military or foreign government) in favor of the 

U.S. government; or the amount of funds to be 

repaid to the U.S. government based on any 

negotiated settlements by a prosecuting authority; or the amount of any assessments and/or 

penalties imposed, based on actions brought 

under the PCFRA, civil money penalties, or 

other agency-specific civil litigation authority, or 

settlement agreements negotiated by the agency 

while proceeding under any of these authorities; 

C) Voluntary repayments—the amount of funds 

repaid on a voluntary basis or funds repaid 

based on an agency’s administrative processes, 

by a subject of an OIG investigation, or the 

value of official property recovered by an OIG 

during an investigation, before prosecutive 

action is taken; any of which result from a case 

in which an OIG has an active investigative role. 

Figure 8. Investigative Receivables and 

Recoveries, FY 1999–FY 2003

$billions

1999 2000 2001 2002 2003

0

1

2

3

4

5

AID $2,577,145 Amtrak $1,259,178

 CNCS $198,988 ARC $0

 DHS $5,199,296 CFTC $0

 DOC $84,662 CPB $0

 DOD $510,356,964 CPSC $0

 DOE $986,620 EEOC $0

 DOI $57,673,298 FCA $0

 DOJ $3,359,917 FCC $0

 DOL $1,307,217 FEC $0

 DOS $124,149 FHFB $0

 DOT $128,258,741 FLRA $0

 ED $14,218,605 FMC $0

 EPA $3,394,394 FRB $0

 FDIC $84,126,030 FTC $0

 GSA $7,368,590 GPO $950

 HHS $1,628,778,164 ITC $6,773

 HUD $613,826,233 LSC $0

 NASA $10,096,551 NARA $0

 NRC $147,056 NCUA $0

 OPM $1,414,557 NEA $0

 RRB $2,691,091 NEH $0

 SBA $16,747,216 NLRB $20,003

 SSA $47,252,215 NSF $2,743,011

 TIGTA $31,643,446 PBGC $254,800

 Treasury $566,767 PC $20,000

 TVA $468,568 SEC $0

 USDA $65,671,158 SI $57,257

 VA $20,329,573 USPS $1,184,765

Subtotal $3,258,867,211 Subtotals $5,546,737

Total from Individual Investigations ...... $3,264,413,948

 Total from Joint Investigations ................. $1,203,628,314

 Total from Individual and Joint 

 Investigations ........................................... $4,468,042,262

OIG OIG

Receivables

and Recoveries

Receivables

and Recoveries

Table X. PCIE and ECIE—Receivables and 

Recoveries from Successful OIG Investigations, 

FY 2003

PCIE ECIE

In FY 2003, PCIE and ECIE member agencies tallied 

investigative receivables and recoveries totaling 

nearly $4.5 billion, of which $1.2 billion resulted 

from joint investigations.

Investigative Receivables and Recoveries 

Note. Data provided by individual OIGs and adjusted by a 

methodology designed to eliminate duplicate reporting of casework 

involving multiple OIGs.
44 A Progress Report to the President • Fiscal Year 2003

 AID 1% Amtrak 3%

 CNCS 0% ARC 0%

 DHS 2% CFTC 0%

 DOC 9% CPB 0%

 DOD 15% CPSC 0%

 DOE 32% EEOC 0%

 DOI 18% FCA 0%

 DOJ 24% FCC 0%

 DOL 43% FEC 0%

 DOS 15% FHFB 0%

 DOT 20% FLRA 0%

 ED 21% FMC 0%

 EPA 6% FRB 36%

 FDIC 28% FTC 0%

 GSA 13% GPO 0%

 HHS N/A 1 ITC 0%

 HUD 37% LSC 0%

 NASA 55% NARA 5%

 NRC 0% NCUA 0%

 OPM 45% NEA 0%

 RRB 5% NEH 0%

 SBA 39% NLRB 0%

 SSA 6% NSF 0%

 TIGTA 0% PBGC 0%

 Treasury 1% PC 29%

 TVA 8% SEC 8%

 USDA 3% SI 0%

 VA 7% USPS 21%

OIG Percent OIG

Table XI. PCIE and ECIE—Percent of 

Investigations Conducted Jointly with Federal 

Investigative Offices Other than OIGs, 

FY 2003

PCIE ECIE

Joint Investigations

This table lists the percent of investigations that 

PCIE and ECIE member agencies conducted with 

other Federal investigative entities, not including 

OIGs.

Percent

 1. This information is not available due to database limitations. 

The HHS OIG is developing systems to track and accurately report 

the number of joint investigations.
Appendix A

Government Challenges and Management Agenda 

Activities Reported on by OIGs During FY 2003

Agency OIG Web Site

 AID • IT Internal Controls and Security Training www.usaid.gov/oig

 CNCS • FISMA www.cncsig.gov

 CPSC • FISMA N/A

 DHS • Customs and Border Protection www.dhs.gov/oig

 • FISMA 

 DOC • Security Controls www.oig.doc.gov

 • Systems Acquisition 

 DOD • Information Assurance www.dodig.osd.mil

 • Information Security

 • IT Management 

 DOE • Cyber Security www.ig.doe.gov

 • Desktop and Laptop Computers

 • Information Systems

 • Internet Privacy

 • Personal Computer Internal Controls

 • Web site Security

 • Wireless Networking Security 

 DOI • E-Government www.oig.doi.gov

 • FISMA

 • IT Management

 • IT Security

 • Web site Security

 DOJ • Computer Security www.usdoj.gov/oig/

 • IT Management

 • Integrating Fingerprint Systems 

 DOL • GISRA www.oig.dol.gov

 • FISMA

 • IT Management 

 DOS • Certification and Accreditation oig.state.gov

 • Information Security and Assessment 

 • Knowledge Management

 • Paperwork Elimination

 • System Integration 

 DOT • Computer Center Shutdown www.oig.dot.gov

 • Computer Security 

 • E-Government

 • Management Controls 

Topic Areas

Information Technology Management and E-Government

President’s Council on Integrity and Efficiency • Executive Council on Integrity and Efficiency A-1
A-2 A Progress Report to the President • Fiscal Year 2003

 ED • Capital Planning and Investment Management www.ed.gov/about/offices/

 • Financial Management Systems list/oig

 • FISMA and Contingency Planning

 • Protection of Cyber Assets 

 EEOC • IT System Security Compliance www.ignet.gov

 • IT Systems 

 EPA • Computer Security www.epa.gov/oigearth

 • IT Controls 

 FCA • Data Reporting www.fca.gov/oig/ 

 • E- Government 

 • Information Security 

 FCC • Accessibility www.fcc.gov/oig

 • Capital Investment Practices

 • Computer Controls 

 FDIC • IT Management www.fdicig.gov

 • IT Security 

 FLRA • FISMA www.flra.gov 

 FRB • E-Government www.federalreserve.gov/oig

 • FISMA 

 FTC • IT Security www.ftc.gov

 GSA • Data Accuracy www.oig.gsa.gov

 • Enhanced Network Operations

 • Information Security

 • IT Security

 • Systems Development Weaknesses

 • Systems Performance Measures 

 HHS • Compliance with GISRA www.oig.hhs.gov

 • Operating Effectiveness 

 HUD • Information Security www.hud.gov/offices/oig

 • IT Control 

 NARA • IT Management N/A

 NASA • Effective Management Controls www.hq.nasa.gov/office/oig

 • Independent Verification and Validation Software

 • IT Security, Continuity Planning, and Performance Measures 

 • Management of Contract Data Reports 

 NCUA • Information Technology www.ncua.gov

 NEH • FISMA Reviews N/A

 NEA • FISMA N/A

 NLRB • Information Security Review www.nlrb.gov

 NRC • E-Government www.nrc.gov

 • Information Technology Management 

Information Technology Management and E-Government, Continued

Agency Topic Areas OIG Web Site
President’s Council on Integrity and Efficiency • Executive Council on Integrity and Efficiency

Appendix A

A-3

 NSF • IT Security www.nsf.gov

 OPM • IT and E-Government Performance Measures www.opm.gov/oig

 • Section 508 

 PBGC • Enterprise-wide Security www.oig.pbgc.gov

 RRB • Authentication of Internet Transactions www.rrb.gov/oig/Rrboig.htm

 • End-User Computer Applications

 • Expansion of Electronic Services

 • Information Security System

 • Internet Reports and Contributions 

 SBA • IT Management & E-Government www.sba.gov

 SEC • IT Management and Security www.ignet.gov

 SI • IT Systems Security www.si.edu/oig

 SSA • Critical Infrastructure Protection and Systems Security www.ssa.gov/oig/

 Treasury • Expanded E-Government www.ustreas.gov

 • IT Investment and Security

 • Privacy 

 TIGTA • Information Systems www.ustreas.gov/tigta

 TVA • IT Management and Controls www.oig.tva.gov

 USDA • FISMA www.usda.gov/oig

 • IT Controls and Security 

 USITC • Information Security www.usitc.gov

 VA • Information Security www.va.gov/oig

Information Technology Management and E-Government, Continued

Agency Topic Areas OIG Web Site

Improved Financial Management

 AID • Financial Statements www.usaid.gov/oig

 • Financial Systems 

 CNCS • Financial Statements Audit www.cncsig.gov

 • Grants Management

 • Internal Controls

 • Travel Cards

 • Trust Fund Accounting 

 CPB • Grants Management www.go.cpb.org/main/

 DHS • Financial Improvement www.dhs.gov/oig

 DOC • System Controls www.oig.doc.gov
A-4 A Progress Report to the President • Fiscal Year 2003

 DOD • Contract Administration www.dodig.osd.mil

 • Enterprise Architecture

 • Financial Controls

 • Financial Policy, Procedures, Reporting and Statements 

 • Information Security

 • Inventory Controls 

 • Payments

 • Property Accountability

 • Purchase Cards 

 DOE • Consolidated Financial Statement Audit www.ig.doe.gov

 • Costs Claimed and Internal Controls

 • Financial Instruments

 • Financial Integrity Act

 • Grants

 • Leases and Leasing Costs

 • Plant Capabilities

 • Research Funds

 • Safeguards and Security Funding

 • Settlement Agreements

 • Oversight Funds 

 DOI • Financial Management www.oig.doi.gov

 • Financial Statement

 • Gainsharing/Awards

 • Revenue Allocation

 • Travel Cards

 • Working Capital Fund 

 DOJ • Financial Statement Audits www.usdoj.gov/oig

 DOL • Financial Management www.oig.dol.gov

 DOS • Centralized Trial Balance oig.state.gov

 • Colombian National Police

 • Drug Control Funds

 • Financial Assistance and Statements

 • Intergovernmental Activities 

 • Travel Card 

 DOT • Acquisition Management www.oig.dot.gov 

 • Anti-Deficiency 

 • Budget and Cost Issues

 • Contract Administration 

 • Cost Accounting

 • Cost Growth, Schedule Delays, and Performance Problems

 • Finance Plans

 • Financial Management and Internal Controls

 • Financial Statement

 • Loan Guarantees 

 • Owner-Controlled Insurance Program

 • Revenue Use

 • Travel Charge Card 

Improved Financial Management, Continued

Agency Topic Areas OIG Web Site
President’s Council on Integrity and Efficiency • Executive Council on Integrity and Efficiency

Appendix A

A-5

 ED • Contract Monitoring www.ed.gov/about/offices/

 • Controls Over Equipment Purchases list/oig 

 • Financial Statement Audits 

 EEOC • Financial Statements www.ignet.gov

 • Internal Controls 

 EPA • Financial Statements www.epa.gov/oigearth

 FCA • Financial Audit www.fca.gov/oig/

 FCC • Annual Financial Statement www.fcc.gov

 • Purchase Cards

 • Schools and Libraries Program 

 FDIC • Financial Management www.fdicig.gov

 • Procurement Credit Card Program 

 FHFB • Financial Reporting www.fca.gov/oig

 FLRA • Financial Reports www.flra.gov

 FRB • Financial Statement Audit www.federalreserve.gov/oig

 FTC • Financial Statement Audit www.ftc.gov/oig

 • Government Credit Cards 

 GSA • Financial Controls www.oig.gsa.gov

 • Financial Statements Audits

 • Internal Controls 

 HHS • Disproportionate Share Hospital Payments www.oig.hhs.gov

 • Error Rate

 • Financial Statement Audits

 • HIV/AIDS Grants

 • Hospital Beds

 • International Merchant Purchase Authorization Card 

 Program

 • Noncustodial Parents Contributions to Medicaid Costs

 • Pension Funds

 • Postacute Care 

 HUD • Internal Controls www.hud.gov/offices/oig

 • Financial Statement 

 NARA • Financial Management N/A

 • Grant Management 

 NASA • Adequate Management of Undefinitized Contract Actions www.hq.nasa.gov/office/oig

 • Agency Financial Statement Audit

 • Integrated Financial Management 

 • Performance Measures and Risk Mitigation Policy

 • Planned Full Cost Accounting 

 NCUA • Financial Management www.ncua.gov/org

 NLRB • Financial Statements www.nlrb.gov

 • Fund Accounting

 • Leased Vehicles 

Improved Financial Management, Continued

Agency Topic Areas OIG Web Site
A-6 A Progress Report to the President • Fiscal Year 2003

 NRC • Improved Financial Management www.nrc.gov

 NSF • Financial Management www.nsf.gov

 OPM • Cash Controls www.opm.gov/oig

 • Debt Collection

 • Financial Statements

 • Performance Measures Related to Improved Financial 

 Management

 PBGC • Control Weaknesses www.oig.pbgc.gov

 • Estimated Recoveries

 • Estimated Liabilities 

 • Identification of Key Controls 

 • Integrated Financial Management Systems 

 • Measurement of Asset Values 

 RRB • Disclosure Requirements www.rrb.gov/oig/Rrboig.htm

 • Federal Financial Management Requirements

 • Financial Performance

 • Improper Payments 

 SBA • Financial Management www.sba.gov

 SEC • Financial Management www.ignet.gov

 SI • Checking Accounts www.si.edu/oig

 SSA • Improved Financial Management www.ssa.gov/oig/

 Treasury • Financial Management www.ustreas.gov

 • Financial Statement Audit

 • Purchase Cards

 • Revenue Protection 

 TIGTA • Administrative Systems www.ustreas.gov/tigta

 • Procurement 

 • Revenue Protection

 • Taxpayer Protection and Rights 

 TVA • Cost Reviews www.tva.gov

 • Data Integrity 

 • Financial Statement Audit

 • Internal Controls 

 USDA • Financial Statement Audits www.usda.gov/oig/

 • Internal Controls Over Travel Card Expenditures 

 USITC • Management Control www.usitc.gov

 • Procurement 

Improved Financial Management, Continued

Agency Topic Areas OIG Web Site
President’s Council on Integrity and Efficiency • Executive Council on Integrity and Efficiency

Appendix A

A-7

 VA • Combined Assessment Program Reviews www.va.gov/oig

 • Financial Management System Review

 • Financial Statements Audits

 • Franchise Funds

 • Fugitive Felon Program

 • Loan Guaranty Systems and Service Loan Refunding 

 Practices

 • Personnel and Accounting Integrated Data System Review

 • Procurement 

Improved Financial Management, Continued

Agency Topic Areas OIG Web Site

 AID • Government Performance and Results Act www.usaid.gov/oig

 DOD • Accounting Procedures www.dodig.osd.mil

 • Budgeting

 • Contracting for Life-Cycle Support 

 DOE • Performance Measures www.ig.doe.gov

 • Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Evaluation

 • Project Management

 • Property Management

 • Work and Community Safety 

 DOI • GPRA Measures and Reporting www.oig.doi.gov

 • Performance Management 

 DOJ • Drug Enforcement Administration’s Performance www.usdoj.gov/oig

 DOT • Airspace Capacity Enhancements and Budget www.oig.dot.gov

 • Anti-Deficiency 

 • Aviation Safety

 • Contract Oversight

 • Cost Accounting and Growth

 • Energy Management and Conservation

 • Federal Facilities 

 • Loan Guarantees 

 • Operational Improvement

 • Revenue Use 

 ED • Access to ESEA Title I Funds www.ed.gov/about/offices/

 • Eligibility for GEAR-UP Program list/oig

 • GPRA Reporting 

 • Guarantee Contracts

 • IDEA Funding Formula Requirements

 • Priority for Services Migrant Children

 • Talent Search Program

 • VI Equipment Inventory Control and Management of 

 Federal Education Funds

 • VOC ED Performance Data 

 EEOC • Performance and Results www.ignet.gov

 EPA • Financial Statements www.epa.gov/oigearth

Budget and Performance
A-8 A Progress Report to the President • Fiscal Year 2003

 FCC • GPRA www.fcc.gov

 GSA • Performance Measures www.oig.gsa.gov

 HUD • Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Evaluation www.hud.gov/offices/oig

 NEA • Budget Division Operations N/A

 NLRB • Results Act www.nlrb.gov

 NSF • Budget/Performance Integration www.nsf.gov

 OPM • GPRA Annual Performance Plan www.opm.gov/oig

 NASA • Failures in Cost Estimating www.hq.nasa.gov/office/oig

 • Performance Measurement System and Risk Mitigation 

 Policy

 • Planned Full Cost Accounting

 • Planning and Projections for Wind Tunnel Use 

 SI • Project Management www.si.edu/oig

 SSA • Budget, Performance and Integration www.ssa.gov/oig

 Treasury • GPRA www.ustreas.gov

 TIGTA • Customer Service Issues www.ustreas.gov/tigta

 • Revenue Protection. Examination Strategy

 • Taxpayer Protection and Rights

 • Training 

Budget and Performance, Continued

Agency Topic Areas OIG Web Site

Competitive Sourcing

 CPB • Procurement www.go.cpb.org/main

 DOD • A-76 Competition www.dodig.osd.mil

 • Contract Administration

 • Pilot Program 

 DOE • Recurring Acquisitions www.ig.doe.gov

 • Subcontracting Practices 

 DOI • Contract Administration www.oig.doi.gov

 • Incurred Costs

 • Leasing 

 DOJ • Prison Space Procurement www.usdoj.gov/oig/

 DOS • Inventory Reform Act oig.state.gov

 DOT • Aviation Safety and Cost Metrics www.oig.dot.gov

 FCC • Billing System Controls www.fcc.gov/oig/

 • Equitable Adjustment Proposal

 • Incurred Costs

 • Labor Charging

 • Price Adjustment 

 FDIC • Contract Oversight www.fdicig.gov

 • Contract Review 
President’s Council on Integrity and Efficiency • Executive Council on Integrity and Efficiency

Appendix A

A-9

Competitive Sourcing, Continued

Agency Topic Areas OIG Web Site

 AID • Contract Monitoring www.usaid.gov/oig

 • Ethics

 • Human Capital Data

 • Procurement Staffing 

 CNCS • Alternative Personnel System www.cncsig.gov

 DOD • Contracting www.dodig.osd.mil

 • Emergency Services

 • Personnel System

 • Staffing Levels and A-76 

 DOE • Assignment of Employees to Other Federal Agencies www.ig.doe.gov

 • Recruitment and Retention 

 DOJ • Drug Interdiction in Prisons www.usdoj.gov/oig/

 • FBI Discipline System

 • Human Capital

 • Retaliation 

 • Training Evaluation Standards 

 DOS • Foreign National Employees oig.state.gov

 • Workforce Planning 

 DOT • Controlling Costs www.oig.dot.gov

 • Internal Controls and Controlling Costs

 • Veterans’ Preference for Screeners 

 ED • Human Capital www.ed.gov/about/offices/ 

 list/oig 

 EEOC • Telework www.ignet.gov

 EPA • Human Capital Management www.epa.gov

 FLRA • Customer Service www.flra.gov

 • Human Capital Progress

 • Government Vehicles 

 FRB • Retirement Plan Administration www.federalreserve.gov/oig

 HUD • Human Capital Management www.hud.gov/offices/oig

 FLRA • FAIR Act Compliance www.flra.gov

 OPM • Performance Measures Related to Competitive Sourcing www.opm.gov/oig

 NASA • Adequacy of Competition in Subcontracting www.hq.nasa.gov

 • Contract Administration

 • Contract Management: Technical, Safety, or Quality 

 Assurance Reviews 

 TIGTA • Revenue Protection www.ustreas.gov/tigta

 VA • Performance Measures Validation www.va.gov/oig

Human Capital Management
A-10 A Progress Report to the President • Fiscal Year 2003

 NLRB • Personnel and Personnel Actions www.nlrb.gov

 • Training 

 OPM • FEGLI www.opm.gov/oig

 • Performance Measures Related to Human Capital 

 Management 

 NASA • Astronaut Candidate Selection and Hiring www.hq.nasa.gov/office/oig

 RRB • Workforce Restructuring www.rrb.gov

 Treasury • Personnel Security www.ustreas.gov

 • Workforce Utilization

 • Workplace Safety 

 TIGTA • Personnel www.ustreas.gov/tigta

 USITC • Employee Safety www.usitc.gov

 VA • Time and Attendance www.va.gov/oig

Human Capital Management, Continued

Agency Topic Areas OIG Web Site

Homeland Security

 DHS • Border and Transportation Security www.dhs.gov/oig

 • FEMA

 • Firefighter Grants

 • Transportation Security Administration 

 DOD • Security at DOD Biological Facilities www.dodig.osd.mil

 DOE • Emergency Medical Coordination www.ig.doe.gov

 • Explosive Safety

 • Force-on-Force Performance Tests

 • Hazardous Waste

 • Infrastructure Protection

 • Internal Control of Firearms

 • International Materials

 • Personnel Security

 • Plutonium Production

 • Protective Forces

 • Safeguards and Security

 • Sensitive Website Information

 • Unclassified Foreign Visits and Assignments 

 DOI • Icon Park Security www.oig.doi.gov/

 • Infrastructures 

 DOJ • 9/11 Detainees’ Civil Rights www.usdoj.gov/oig

 • Border Security

 • Counterintelligence and Security

 • Effectiveness in Removing Aliens

 • Issuing SSNs to Aliens

 • Tracking Foreign Students

 • Visa Waiver Program 

 DOS • Passport oig.state.gov

 • Visa 
President’s Council on Integrity and Efficiency • Executive Council on Integrity and Efficiency

Appendix A

A-11

Homeland Security, Continued

Agency Topic Areas OIG Web Site

 DOT • Aviation Security and Cost www.oig.dot.gov

 • Aviation Security Prior to 9/11

 • Aviation Security Technologies

 • Contract Oversight

 • Federal Air Marshal Program

 • Financial Statements

 • Screener Security Program

 • Sections 106 and 138 of the Aviation and Transportation 

 Security Act 

 EPA • Air Monitoring www.epa.gov/oigearth

 • Cyber Security

 • Security of Nation’s Water Supply

 • Water Infrastructure Security 

 FCC • GISRA www.fcc.gov

 • Physical Security

 • Workplace Violence 

 FDIC • Business Continuity Planning www.fdicig.gov

 • Patriot Act 

 FLRA • Occupational Safety and Health www.flra.gov

 GSA • Security Clearance Process for Contractor Personnel www.oig.gsa.gov

 HHS • Bioterrorism oig.hhs.gov

 NASA • Computer and Network Systems Incident Response and www.hq.nasa.gov/office/oig

 Coordination Capability

 • Compliance With Guidance and Policies to Protect IT 

 Resources

 • IT Security and Vulnerabilities

 • Physical Security and Safety Assessment

 • Surveillance and Safety Procedures 

 NLRB • Building Security www.nlrb.gov

 SBA • Homeland Security www.sba.gov

 SSA • SSN Integrity and Protection www.ssa.gov

 Treasury • Border Security www.ustreas.gov

 • Law Enforcement

 • Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing

 • National Security 

 TIGTA • Security Program www.ustreas.gov/tigta

 • Taxpayer Protection Rights 

 TVA • Facility Access Control Systems Security www.oig.tva.gov

 • FISMA

 • Resource Access Control 
A-12 A Progress Report to the President • Fiscal Year 2003

Homeland Security, Continued

Agency Topic Areas OIG Web Site

 USDA • Biohazardous Materials Controls www.usda.gov/oig

 • Emergency Management

 • Facility Security

 • National Forest System Security Reviews

 • Security Safeguards 

 USITC • Emergency Management www.usitc.gov

 • Information Security 
Appendix B

Glossary of Acronyms and Abbreviations

Acronym/

Abbreviation Definition

AID Agency for International Development

ARC Appalachian Regional Commission

CFTC Commodity Futures Trading Commission

CFO Chief Financial Officer

CIO Chief Information Officer

CNCS Corporation for National and Community Service

CPA Coalition Provisional Authority

CPSC Consumer Product Safety Commission

CPB Corporation for Public Broadcasting

DCAA Defense Contract Audit Agency

DHS Department of Homeland Security

DOC Department of Commerce

DOD Department of Defense

DOE Department of Energy

DOI Department of the Interior

DOJ Department of Justice

DOL Department of Labor

DOS Department of State and Broadcasting Board of Governors

DOT Department of Transportation

ECIE Executive Council on Integrity and Efficiency

ED Department of Education

EEOC Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

E-Government Electronic Government

EPA Environmental Protection Agency

FAEC Federal Audit Executive Council

FAIR Act Federal Activities Inventory Reform Act

FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation

FCA Farm Credit Administration

FCC Federal Communications Commission

FDIC Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

FEC Federal Election Commission

FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency

FFMIA Federal Financial Management Improvement Act 

FHFB Federal Housing Finance Board

FISMA Federal Information Security Management Act

FLRA Federal Labor Relations Authority

FMC Federal Maritime Commission

FRB Federal Reserve Board

FTC Federal Trade Commission

FY Fiscal Year

GAO General Accounting Office

GISRA Government Information Security Reform Act

GPEA Government Paperwork Elimination Act

GPO Government Printing Office

GPRA Government Performance and Results Act

GSA General Services Administration

HEW Department of Health, Eduation and Welfare

HHS Department of Health and Human Services

HR Human Resources

President’s Council on Integrity and Efficiency • Executive Council on Integrity and Efficiency B-1
B-2 A Progress Report to the President • Fiscal Year 2003

Acronym/

Abbreviation Definition

Glossary of Acronyms and Abbreviations, Continued

HUD Department of Housing and Urban Development

I&E Inspections and Evaluations

IG Inspector General

IGATI Inspectors General Auditor Training Institute

IRS Internal Revenue Service

IT Information Technology

ITC International Trade Commission

LSC Legal Services Corporation

MIR Misconduct in Research

NARA National Archives and Records Administration

NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NCUA National Credit Union Administration

NEA National Endowment for the Arts

NEH National Endowment for the Humanities

NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology

NLRB National Labor Relations Board

NRC Nuclear Regulatory Commission

NSF National Science Foundation

OGE Office of Government Ethics

OIG Office of Inspector General

OMB Office of Management and Budget

OPM Office of Personnel Management

OSC Office of Special Counsel

PART Program Assessment Rating Tool

PBGC Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation

PC Peace Corps

PCIE President’s Council on Integrity and Efficiency

PFCRA Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act

RRB Railroad Retirement Board

SBA Small Business Administration

SEC Securities and Exchange Commission

SI Smithsonian Institution

SSA Social Security Administration

SSN Social Security number

TIGTA Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration

Treasury Department of the Treasury

TVA Tennessee Valley Authority

USDA Department of Agriculture

USPS U.S. Postal Service

VA Department of Veterans Affairs
Appendix C

PCIE and ECIE Membership Information

Clay Johnson, III, Chair 

Deputy Director for Management

OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET

17th and Pennsylvania Ave., NW

Room 350, Eisenhower EOB

Washington, DC 20503

Gaston L. Gianni, Jr., Vice Chair, PCIE

Inspector General

FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION

801 17th Street, NW, Room 1096

Washington, DC 20434-0001

800-964-3342

Barry R. Snyder, Vice Chair, ECIE

Inspector General

FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD

20th and C Street, NW, Mail Stop 300

Washington, DC 20551

800-827-3340 or 202-452-6400

Linda Springer, Controller

OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET

725 17th Street, NW

Room 9013, New EOB

Washington, DC 20503

Joseph R. Lewis, Acting Assistant 

 Director

Criminal Investigative Division

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

935 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Room 3090

Washington, DC 20535

Marilyn L. Glynn, Director

OFFICE OF GOVERNMENT ETHICS

1201 New York Avenue, NW, Suite 500

Washington, DC 20005-3917

Dan Blair, Deputy Director

OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT

1900 E Street, NW

Washington, DC 20415-0001

Scott J. Bloch, Special Counsel

OFFICE OF SPECIAL COUNSEL

1730 M Street, NW, Suite 300

Washington, DC 20036

Disclosure: 800-572-2249

Hatch Act Information: 800-854-2824

Whistleblower Protection: 800-572-2249

Hotline Numbers

Members on Both Councils

President’s Council on Integrity and Efficiency • Executive Council on Integrity and Efficiency C-1
C-2 A Progress Report to the President • Fiscal Year 2003

Clay Johnson, III, Chair*

Deputy Director for Management

OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET

17th and Pennsylvania Ave., NW

Room 350, Eisenhower EOB

Washington, DC 20503

Gaston L. Gianni, Jr., Vice Chair, PCIE*

Inspector General

FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION

801 17th Street, NW, Room 1096

Washington, DC 20434-0001

800-964-3342

Everett Mosley, Inspector General

AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Ronald Reagan Building

1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20523

800-230-6539 or 202-712-1023

John L. Helgerson, Inspector General 

CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

Room 2X30, New Headquarters

Washington, DC 20505

J. Russell George, Inspector General

CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND

 COMMUNITY SERVICE

1201 New York Ave., NW, Suite 830

Washington, DC 20525

800-452-8210 or 202-606-5000, ext. 390

Clark Kent Ervin, Inspector General

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

500 C Street, SW

Washington, DC 20528

800-323-8603 or 202-254-4100

Johnnie E. Frazier, Inspector General

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

HCHB 7898-C

14th & Constitution Ave., NW

Washington, DC 20230

800-424-5197 or 202-482-2495

Joseph E. Schmitz, Inspector General

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

400 Army Navy Drive

Arlington, VA 22202-2884

800-424-9098 or 703-604-8546

Gregory H. Friedman, Inspector General

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

1000 Independence Ave., SW

Washington, DC 20585

800-541-1625 or 202-586-4073

Earl E. Devaney, Inspector General

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

1849 C Street, NW, Mail Stop 5341

Washington, DC 20240

800-424-5081 

Glenn A. Fine, Inspector General

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

950 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Room 4322

Washington, DC 20530

800-869-4499

Gordon S. Heddell, Inspector General

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

200 Constitution Ave., NW, Room S-5500

Washington, DC 20210

800-347-3756 or 202-693-6999

Anne W. Patterson, Deputy Inspector

 General

DEPARTMENT OF STATE AND THE

 BROADCASTING BOARD OF GOVERNORS

2201 C Street, NW, Room 6817

Washington, DC 20520-6817

202-647-9450 or 800-409-9926

Kenneth M. Mead, Inspector General

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

400 Seventh Street, SW, Room 9210

Washington, DC 20590

800-424-9071 or 202-366-1461

John P. Higgins, Jr., Inspector General

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

400 Maryland Ave., SW, Room 4006 MES

Washington, DC 20202-1510

800-647-8733 or 202-205-5439

Nikki L. Tinsley, Inspector General 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, 

Mailcode 2410T

Washington, DC 20460

888-546-8740

Daniel R. Levinson, Inspector General

GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

1800 F Street, NW, Room 5340

Washington, DC 20405

800-424-5210 or 202-501-1780

Dara Corrigan, Acting Principal Deputy

 Inspector General

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

330 Independence Ave., SW

Washington, DC 20201

800-447-8477

Kenneth M. Donohue, Inspector General

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND

 URBAN DEVELOPMENT

451 7th Street, SW, Room 8256

Washington, DC 20410-4500

800-347-3735 or 202-708-4200

Robert W. Cobb, Inspector General

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE

 ADMINISTRATION

300 E Street, SW, Code W, Room 8V79

Washington, DC 20546

800-424-9183

Hubert T. Bell, Inspector General

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

Mail Stop T5 D28

Washington, DC 20555

800-233-3497

Patrick E. McFarland, Inspector General

OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT

1900 E Street, NW, Room 6400

Washington, DC 20415-1100

Fraud, Waste, and Abuse: 202-606-2423

Healthcare Fraud: 202-418-3300

Martin J. Dickman, Inspector General

RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD

844 North Rush Street, Room 450

Chicago,. IL 60611-2092

800-772-4258

Harold Damelin, Inspector General

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

409 Third Street SW, 7th Floor

Washington, DC 20416

800-767-0385 or 202-205-7151

Patrick P. O’Carroll, Jr., Acting Inspector 

 General

SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION

Altmeyer Building, Suite 300

6401 Security Boulevard

Baltimore, MD 21235

800-269-0271 or 410-966-8385

Dennis Schindel, Acting Inspector 

 General

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

1500 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, 

Washington, DC 20220

800-359-3898

Pamela Gardiner, 

Acting Inspector General

TREASURY INSPECTOR GENERAL

FOR TAX ADMINISTRATION

1125 15th St., NW, Suite 700A

Washington , DC 20005

800-366-4484

Richard Moore, Inspector General

TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY

400 W. Summit Hill Drive

Knoxville, TN 37902-1499

800-323-3835

Phyllis Fong, Inspector General

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

1400 Independence Ave., SW

Room 117-W Whitten Building

Washington, DC 20250-2301

800-424-9121 or 202-690-1622

Richard J. Griffin, Inspector General

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

810 Vermont Avenue NW

Washington, DC 20420

800-488-8244

*See also Members on Both Councils, page C-1

Hotline Numbers

President’s Council on Integrity and Efficiency Members*
President’s Council on Integrity and Efficiency • Executive Council on Integrity and Efficiency

Appndix C

C-3

Clay Johnson III, Chair* 

Deputy Director for Management

OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET

17th and Pennsylvania Ave., NW

Room 350, Eisenhower EOB

Washington, DC 20503

Barry R. Snyder, Vice Chair, ECIE*

Inspector General

FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD

20th and C Street , NW, Mail Stop 300

Washington, DC 20551

800-827-3340 or 202-452-6400

Fred E. Weiderhold, Jr.

Inspector General

AMTRAK

10 G Street, NE, Suite 3W-300

Washington, DC 20002-4285

800-468-5469

Clifford H. Jennings, Inspector General

APPALACHIAN REGIONAL COMMISSION

1666 Connecticut Ave., NW, Suite 215

Washington, DC 20009-1068

800-532-4611 or 202-884-7667

A. Roy Lavik, Inspector General

COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION

Three Lafayette Centre

1155 21st Street, NW

Washington, DC 20581

202-418-5510

Kenneth Konz, Inspector General

CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING

401 Ninth St., NW

Washington, DC 20004

800-599-2170 or 202-783-5408

Christopher W. Dentel,

Inspector General

CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION

4330 East West Highway

Bethesda, MD 20814-4408

301-504-7644

Aletha L. Brown, Inspector General

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

 COMMISSION

1801 L Street, NW, Suite 3001

Washington, DC 20507

800-849-4230 

Stephen G. Smith, Inspector General

FARM CREDIT ADMINISTRATION

1501 Farm Credit Drive

McLean, VA 22102

800-437-7322 or 703-883-4316

H. Walker Feaster, III, Inspector General

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

445 12th Street, SW, Room 2-C762

Washington, DC 20554

202-418-0473

Lynne A. McFarland, Inspector General

FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION

999 E Street, NW, Room 940

Washington, DC 20463

202-694-1015

Edward Kelley, Inspector General

FEDERAL HOUSING FINANCE BOARD

1777 F Street, NW

Washington, DC 20006

800-276-8329 or 202-408-2900

Francine C. Eichler, Inspector General

FEDERAL LABOR RELATIONS AUTHORITY

1400 K Street, NW, Room 250

Washington, DC 20424

800-331-3572

Tony P. Kominoth, Inspector General

FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION

800 N. Capitol St., Rm. 1054

Washington, DC 20573

202-523-5865

Frederick J. Zirkel, Inspector General

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION

600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW

Washington, DC 20580

202-326-2800

Marc A. Nichols, Inspector General

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

732 North Capitol Street, NW 

Washington, DC 20401

800-743-7574

Len Koczur, Acting Inspector General

LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION

3333 K Street, NW, 3rd Floor

Washington, DC 20007-3522

800-678-8868 or 202-295-1660

Paul Brachfeld, Inspector General

NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS

 ADMINISTRATION

8601 Adelphi Road

College Park, MD 20740

800-786-2551 OR 301-837-3000

Herbert Yolles, Inspector General

NATIONAL CREDIT UNION ADMINISTRATION

1775 Duke Street

Alexandria, VA 22314-3428

800-778-4806 or 703-518-6357

Daniel L. Shaw, Inspector General

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS

1100 Pennsylvania Ave., NW

Washington, DC 20506

202-682-5402

Sheldon L. Bernstein, Inspector General

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES

1100 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Room 419

Washington, DC 20506

202-606-8423

Jane E. Altenhofen, Inspector General

NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD

1099 14th Street, NW, Room 9820

Washington, DC 20570

800-736-2983

Christine C. Boesz, Inspector General

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

4201 Wilson Boulevard, Room 1135

Arlington, VA 22230

800-428-2189

Robert Emmons, Inspector General

PENSION BENEFIT GUARANTY CORPORATION

1200 K Street, NW

Washington, DC 20005

800-400-7242 or 202-326-4030

Charles D. Smith, Inspector General

PEACE CORPS

1111 20th Street, NW

Washington, DC 20526

800-233-5874

Walter Stachnik, Inspector General

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

450 Fifth Street, NW, Stop 1107

Washington, DC 20549

202-942-4460

Thomas D. Blair, Inspector General

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

Victor Bldg., Suite 4200

750 Ninth St., NW

Washington, DC 20560

202-275-1671

Kenneth F. Clarke, Inspector General

U.S. INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION

500 E Street, SW, Room 515

Washington, DC 20436

800-500-0333 or 202-205-2210

David C. Williams, Inspector General

U.S. POSTAL SERVICE

1735 N. Lynn Street

Arlington, VA 22209-2005

888-USPS-OIG (888-877-7644)

Executive Council on Integrity and Efficiency Members*

*See also Members on Both Councils, page C-1

Hotline Numbers
C-4 A Progress Report to the President • Fiscal Year 2003
Appendix D

Called to Serve

In recent months, nearly one hundred individuals from more than twenty member offices of the PCIE and 

ECIE have been called to active duty. These brave men and women are serving in various capacities across 

the globe to secure our homeland and protect our freedoms. We salute their courage and patriotism, and 

would like to recognize many of these individuals, as follows:

Albert T. Gombis, Air Force

James Greer, Air Force

Ed Gumban, Air Force

Gloria Hill, Navy

Jeffrey Hochadel, Navy

Rodney Holliman, Army

Robert J. Kaufman, Army

Teri Kayati, Coast Guard

Shelia Keating, Army

Paul Kimbrough, Army

Wade Krieger, Air Force

Douglas Latessa, Army

John Ledden, Army

Freddy Lopez, Marine Corps

Janet Lynch, Army

Shawn Magowan, Army

Steven Manber, Marine Corps

Angel Matos, Army

Samuel Maxey, National Guard

Esther Maysonet, Marine Corps

Eric McGraw, Army

Tracy McIntosh, Army

Richard Mebs, Army 

Jon J. Metry, Army

Peter Moore, Army

Paul W. Myers, Army

Boris Frank Nazaroff, 

Marine Corps

Wayne Nomi, Coast Guard

Wayne North, Coast Guard

Christopher O’Gara, Army

Keith Owens, Army

Bruce Arndt-Cortez, Army

Steve Bennett, National Guard

Sylvia Bergstedt, Air Force

John Berrett, Air Force

Peter Blackburn, Marine Corps

Wayne Blackwood, Marine Corps

Darci Blakely-Bell, Air Force

Marlon R. Bowles, Army

William “Dave” Boxmeyer, 

Air Force

Jose Braniella, Navy

Jeffrey Brown, Army

Joseph Bredhoft, Army

Alma Certa, Coast Guard

James J. Collins, Army

Dennis Conway, Army

Matthew Craig, Army

Marcus Culpepper, Air Force

Paul D’Agostino, Army

Rod Dahl, Army

John DeMaggio, Navy

Charles G. Dirks, Army

Steven Driver, Coast Guard

David Enos, Army

Richard J. Erickson, 

National Guard

George Fifer, Air Force

Malik Freeman, National Guard

Hector Garcia, National Guard

Michael Geasley, National Guard 

Brett Gehring, Army

Curtis Gelber, Air Force

Allen Pajarin, Army

Michael Porter, National Guard

Eric Radwick, Air Force

Santos Ramirez, Air Force

Anthony Register, 

National Guard

Jorge Rey, Army

Meredith Ross, Army

Lorne Segerstrom, 

National Guard

Ivan Serpa, Army

Tonya Shorts, Army

Todd Sikkink, Air Force

Derek Simmons, Marine Corps

Derek A. Smith, National Guard

Mark Smith, Air Force

Lance Stamper, Army

Charles B. Stephens, Air Force

Scott Stokes, Marine Corps

Monty Stokes, Air Force

William F. Stumme, Navy

Keith Tate, Air Force

Edward Thomas Jr., Air Force

Pedro Toscano, Army

Clara Veal, Army

Dennis Wade, Army

Jeffery Walsh, National Guard

Idenne Whetsel, Marine Corps

Edwin Wilkinson, Navy

W. David Winstead, Army

Richard F. Woodford Jr., Navy

William Zastrow, Army

President’s Council on Integrity and Efficiency • Executive Council on Integrity and Efficiency D-1

With Our Sincere Appreciation...

On November 25, 2002, the President signed into law the Homeland Security Act of 2002. 

Among other things, this law extended to selected OIGs the authority to exercise law enforcement powers while engaged in official duties. In addition, this law established a peer review 

process to ensure that adequate internal safeguards and management procedures exist within 

each OIG. Prior to the law’s passage, law enforcement powers were granted administratively to 

most OIGs. 

Over the years, the PCIE has worked to statutorily obtain these powers and establish this review 

process. Looking back, several individuals stand out as being instrumental to the passage of this 

important piece of legislation. We sincerely appreciate their commitment and would like to take 

this opportunity to recognize them by name. 

On Capitol Hill, the chief proponents, who displayed unwavering support and sponsorship for 

the passage of this authority, include: 

✯ Senator Fred Thompson, Former Chair, Committee on Governmental Affairs, U.S. Senate 

✯ Senator Joseph Lieberman, Ranking Member, Committee on Governmental Affairs, 

U.S. Senate 

✯ Bill Outhier, Former Staff Director, Committee on Governmental Affairs, U.S. Senate 

Within the IG community, the former and current IGs, who devoted extraordinary effort and 

commitment toward accomplishing this end, were:

✯ June Gibbs Brown, Inspector General, HHS (1993-2001)

✯ Julian De La Rosa, Inspector General, DOL (1990-1993)

✯ Charles C. Matsen, Inspector General, DOL (1993-2000)

✯ Glenn A. Fine, Inspector General, DOJ

✯ Patrick E. McFarland, Inspector General, OPM

And at the senior staff level within the IG community, those individuals, who worked tirelessly 

with Members of the Congress, their staff, and Administration officials, include: 

✯ Jack Hartwig, Former Assistant IG for Investigations, HHS

✯ James Henderson, Assistant IG for Investigations, GSA

✯ Abigail Cummings, General Counsel Branch Chief, HHS

✯ Marcia Sayer, Congressional Liaison, HHS