throughout this semiannual period, our audit work addressed issues intended to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of amtrak’s programs and operations. we issued nine audit reports that included opportunities to improve the company’s management of the spare parts contract for the acela, its “safe‐2‐safer” program, and workforce planning in the police department. we also expanded the use of…
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our reporting objective is to provide a point in time assessment of the company’s progress implementing its fra-approved plan, with a specific emphasis on the northeast corridor (nec). we also generally discuss implementation progress on routes off the nec and overall program management issues. we are continuing our work and plan to issue a final report at a later date.
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this report provides the results of our audit of the new jersey high-speed rail improvement program (the program). amtrak (the company) initiated the construction program to upgrade its rail infrastructure to support higher maximum train speeds, increase capacity, and improve service reliability over a 23-mile section of track between trenton and new brunswick, new jersey.
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our objective is to review the adequacy of contract oversight and administration, focusing on cost, schedule, and performance in terms of the contract’s effect on equipment availability and reliability.
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we are initiating a project to update our september 2014 report, amtrak: top management and performance challenges. this report summarized our assessment of the top challenges facing the company in fiscal year 2014 and the company’s progress in addressing them.
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our audit objective was to determine to what extent the res-ng program met its objective of modernizing the company’s reservation system.
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our reporting objective was to analyze timesheet data to identify trends and patterns that could be useful in detecting fraud, waste, and abuse. using a specialized data-analysis software tool, we analyzed 100 percent of the hours recorded on more than 4.5 million daily timesheets submitted by and paid to approximately 19,300 agreement-covered employees in cy 2014.
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deirdre m. daly, united states attorney for the district of connecticut, and george c. jepsen, attorney general for the state of connecticut, today announced that garg consulting services, inc. ("garg") has entered into a civil settlement agreement with the federal government and the state of connecticut in which garg will pay $390,000 to resolve allegations that the rocky hill-based company…
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we had 15 ongoing audits addressing 6 focus areas of our annual audit plan as of march 31, 2015. as of march 31, 2015, we had 65 active investigations focusing on significant allegations of suspected fraud, waste, and misconduct in the following areas.
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at the request of the senate committee on homeland security and governmental affairs we are initiating work on the company’s process for responding to freedom of information act (foia) requests. our objective is to review the controls over processing foia requests.
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