National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
The United States' civil space and aeronautics agency -- Artemis, the science fleet, and the first U.S. asteroid-sample return, on 17,438 civil servants.
By Vindex · July 31, 2026▶ 86sgood-citizennasaspace-exploration
CNMI territorial government audit-recommendation follow-through
CNMI's Public Auditor: 30 of 32 Recommendations Still Open
CNMI's Public Auditor reports 30 of 32 tracked audit recommendations unresolved, including a ballot-accountability gap open since 2019.
By Frontinus · July 28, 2026cnmi-office-of-the-public-auditoraudit-recommendation-follow-throughnorthern-mariana-islands-government-oversight
Legal Services Corporation disaster-grant oversight
Legal Services Corp Ran $57.8M in Disaster Grants on Draft Rules
An LSC OIG audit found the agency ran $57.8M in disaster grants across two rounds while its own written procedures stayed in draft, marked "TBD."
By Frontinus · July 28, 2026legal-services-corporation-oversightlsc-disaster-grant-programlegal-services-corporation-office-of-inspector-general
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) -- information-technology asset accountability and property management
NARA's Own IT Inventory System Doesn't Know Who Has What
A National Archives inspector general review found most tracked IT assets have no listed user, and equipment isn't reliably reclaimed when staff leave.
By Frontinus · July 28, 2026nara-it-asset-tracking-gaphardware-asset-management-data-qualityproperty-accountable-officer-controls
Kentucky Unified Prosecutorial System budget and asset-forfeiture fund controls (Prosecutors Advisory Council / Auditor of Public Accounts)
Kentucky Prosecutor Offices Overspent Budgets by $1.94M, Unfixed
71% of Kentucky's 177 elected prosecutor offices busted their budgets in FY2024 -- $1.94 million combined, with no budget ever officially amended.
By Frontinus · July 27, 2026kentucky-unified-prosecutorial-systemprosecutors-advisory-councilasset-forfeiture-fund-controls
Postal Regulatory Commission acquisition and contracting practices
PRC contracts: $377K unsigned, 89% of value sole-sourced
USPS regulator ran its own contracting on unsigned purchase orders and sole-source awards, a federal audit of 36 PRC contract files found.
By Frontinus · July 27, 2026postal-regulatory-commission-contracting-practicesunsigned-purchase-orders-legal-risksole-source-contracting-without-competition
City of San Antonio 311 Customer Service Department -- data integrity and system access controls
San Antonio's 311 System Can't Verify Its Own Performance Data
A San Antonio city audit found 311's complaint-tracking data unreliable, and some system access should have been cut up to 11.5 years earlier.
By Marcus Aurelius · July 27, 2026san-antonio-311-data-integritymunicipal-service-request-trackingcity-auditor-access-control-review
Alabama Department of Corrections -- financial and compliance oversight
Alabama Prison Agency Evaluated a $15.7M Program Twice in Six Years
Alabama law requires ADOC to evaluate the county programs it funds every year -- an audit found it did so only twice in six years.
By Marcus Aurelius · July 26, 2026alabama-doc-community-corrections-evaluation-gapalabama-examiners-of-public-accounts-adoc-auditadoc-bank-reconciliation-failures
Federal oversight of college-reported IPEDS data
A College's Own Numbers Failed Three Separate Federal Checks
A federal audit found a college's net price, graduation rate, and cost-of-attendance data all unverifiable -- the same data families use to compare schools.
By Frontinus · July 25, 2026snhu-ipeds-data-verifiability-gap-dollaripeds-net-price-graduation-rate-accuracycollege-choice-data-integrity
Texas State University System asset-management controls
A Texas College Couldn't Locate 26% of the Assets Auditors Tested
Auditors couldn't find 18 of 70 sampled assets at the Lamar Institute of Technology, which ran zero surprise inventory audits in fiscal 2025.
By Marcus Aurelius · July 24, 2026lamar-institute-of-technologytexas-state-university-systempublic-asset-accountability
Credit union supervision and the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund
North Bay Credit Union's Cannabis Lending Bet Cost $4.24M
A Santa Rosa, Calif. credit union grew into cannabis loans and fintech banking faster than its controls could track, costing the fund $4.24 million.
By Marcus Aurelius · July 23, 2026credit-union-failurecannabis-bankingbank-secrecy-act-compliance
Federal Housing Finance Agency -- internal financial controls
FHFA Questioned $65,690 in Stipends It Promised to Fix in 2020
FHFA's OIG questioned $65,690 of the $3.7M it paid employees in reimbursements and stipends -- six years after a near-identical finding.
By Frontinus · July 22, 2026employee-reimbursement-complianceinspector-general-compliance-reviewquestioned-costs