OIG Audit : During this reporting period, we released our annual report on Management Challenges at the Department of Energy – FY 2018, which focuses attention on significant issues with the objective of working with Department officials to enhance the effectiveness of agency programs and operations. The management challenges in the latest report were largely consistent with those identified in previous years with the addition of subcontract management as a component of contract oversight. The work of the Office of Inspector General has shown subcontract management is an increasing challenge for the Department. In one instance during the reporting period, we investigated a former Sandia National Laboratories contractor procurement officer who pled guilty to one count of Major Fraud against the United States, three counts of Wire Fraud, and seven counts of Money Laundering. We determined the former contractor procurement officer engaged in a scheme to direct $2.3 million Sandia contract to a surreptitiously created and controlled by the former contract procurement officer.

OIG Audit :
During this reporting period, we released our annual report on Management Challenges at the Department of Energy – FY 2018, which focuses attention on significant issues with the objective of working with Department officials to enhance the effectiveness of agency programs and operations. 

The management challenges in the latest report were largely consistent with those identified in previous years with the addition of subcontract management as a component of contract oversight. 

The work of the Office of Inspector General has shown subcontract management is an increasing challenge for the Department. In one instance during the reporting period, we investigated a former Sandia National Laboratories contractor procurement officer who pled guilty to one count of Major Fraud against the United States, three counts of Wire Fraud, and seven counts of Money Laundering. We determined the former contractor procurement officer engaged in a scheme to direct $2.3 million Sandia contract to a surreptitiously created and controlled by the former contract procurement officer.

Semiannual Report to Congress, October 1, 2017 – March 31, 2018,

Office of Inspector General, Department of the Treasury