Community Development Block Grant - Disaster Recovery Program Timing
HUD OIG is auditing the Office of Community Planning and Development (CPD) to determine whether it is tracking and improving the timing of its delivery of the Community Development Block Grant - Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) program funds over the last 20 years, and whether CPD has met Congressional allocation timing requirements. Specifically, HUD OIG will be measuring the timing of three CDBG-DR program delivery points: (1) CPD’s allocation of the funds to grantees, (2) the grantees’ submission of their initial action plans, and (3) CPD’s execution of grant agreements.
Community Development Block Grant - Disaster Recovery LMI Requirements
HUD OIG is auditing the Office of Community Planning and Development (CPD) to determine whether it effectively and efficiently designed its Community Development Block Grant – Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) program requirements and monitoring to ensure that the grantees meet statutory and other Federal low-and moderate-income requirements. The CDBG-DR Program provides flexible grants to help State, cities, counties, parishes, and territories to rebuild the areas affected by Presidentially declared disasters and provide crucial seed money to start the recovery process.
Fiscal Year 2021 Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA) Evaluation Security Technical Testing Topic Brief
The Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 (FISMA) requires all federal agencies to conduct independent security technical verification testing on a sampling of information systems annually. In conjunction with our fiscal year 2021 FISMA evaluation (2021-OE-0001), we conducted a targeted security testing assessment of sample systems that resulted in a Topic Brief. The objective of this application vulnerability testing was to determine whether the U.S.
HUD Did Not Always Comply With Its Internal Guide When Transitioning Offices From Mandatory to Maximum Telework During the COVID-19 Pandemic
We audited the U.S.
Fiscal Year 2021 Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA) Evaluation Report
The Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 (FISMA) directs Inspectors General to conduct an annual evaluation of the agency information security program. FISMA, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) establish information technology (IT) security guidance and standards for Federal agencies.
The Honorable Gerald Connolly
Please find attached an advance copy of our office’s Audit Report No. 2022-CH-0002, entitled, “HUD’s Transitioning of Offices from Mandatory to Maximum Telework During the COVID-19 Pandemic,” which we initiated in response to your June 2020 letter. We focused our audit on whether HUD complied with its initial internal guidance1 when transitioning offices from mandatory to maximum telework during the COVID-19 pandemic, allowing HUD employees to voluntarily to return to an office if certain conditions (“gating criteria”) were met.