Ongoing Work
This table includes projects initiated within State OIG's Office of Audits, Office of Inspections, and Office of Whistleblower Integrity and Special Projects and is updated on a monthly basis. Users may select a specific office, division, or agency/bureau to see a list of related ongoing work. Users may select a column header to sort within a column. New and completed work is included in the State OIG Monthly Update. Individual project announcements may also be found under News.
Updated June 2, 2026
| Office | Division | Working Title | Description | Agency/Bureau | Initiation Date |
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| Office of Inspections | Classified Inspection of Embassy of Embassy Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia | East Asian and Pacific Affairs (EAP) | |||
| Office of Inspections | Inspection of Embassy Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia | The objectives for this inspection are to assess the embassy’s policy implementation, resource management, and management controls. |
East Asian and Pacific Affairs (EAP) | ||
| Office of Inspections | Classified Inspection of Embassy The Hague and Constituent Post, Netherlands | Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs | |||
| Office of Inspections | Inspection of Embassy The Hague and Constituent Post, Netherlands, and the Organization for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons | The objectives for this inspection are to assess the embassy’s policy implementation, resource management, and management controls. |
Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs | ||
| Office of Inspections | Classified Inspection of Embassy Tashkent, Uzbekistan | South and Central Asian Affairs (SCA) | |||
| Office of Inspections | Inspection of Embassy Tashkent, Uzbekistan | The objectives for this inspection are to assess the embassy’s policy implementation, resource management, and management controls. |
South and Central Asian Affairs (SCA) | ||
| Office of Inspections | Classified Inspection of Embassy Quito and Constituent Post, Ecuador | Western Hemisphere Affairs (WHA) | |||
| Office of Inspections | Inspection of Embassy Quito and Constituent Post, Ecuador | The objectives for this inspection are to assess the embassy’s policy implementation, resource management, and management controls. |
Western Hemisphere Affairs (WHA) | ||
| Office of Inspections | Evaluation of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs' Oversight of Participant Safety | This evaluation will determine the extent to which ECA has clear policies and procedures in place to facilitate the safety of secondary student exchange participants and respond to safety-related complaints, assess ECA's efforts to verify that secondary student exchange sponsors and hosts adhere to participant-related safety program requirements, and assess the extent to which ECA comprehensively tracks and responds to secondary student exchange program safety-related complaints. Independent external evaluator Kearney & Company, P.C. (Kearney), will perform this review under OIG’s direction.
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Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) | ||
| Office of Audits | Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) | Operation Epic Fury Lead Inspector General Report to the United States Congress, April 1-June 30, 2026 | This quarterly report describes the activities of the U.S. government in support of Operation Epic Fury. This report also discusses related planned, ongoing, and completed oversight work conducted by the Lead IG agencies and partner oversight agencies during the quarter. |
Counterterrorism (CT), Diplomatic Security (DS), Near Eastern Affairs (NEA), Overseas Buildings Operations (OBO), Political-Military Affairs (PM) | |
| Office of Audits | Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) | Classified Operation Lead Inspector General Report to the United States Congress, April 1-June 30, 2026 | This quarterly report describes the activities of the U.S. government in support of a classified operation. |
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| Office of Audits | Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) | Operation Southern Spear Lead Inspector General Report to the United States Congress, April 1-June 30, 2026 | This quarterly report describes the activities of the U.S. government in support of Operation Atlantic Resolve, as well as the work of the Department of Defense, the Department of State, and the U.S. Agency for International Development to promote the U.S. government’s policy goals related to Ukraine during the quarter. This report also discusses related planned, ongoing, and completed oversight work conducted by the Lead IG agencies and our partner oversight agencies during the quarter. |
Western Hemisphere Affairs (WHA), Political-Military Affairs (PM) | |
| Office of Audits | Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) | Operation Atlantic Resolve, Including U.S. Government Activities Related to Ukraine, Special Inspector General Report to the United States Congress, April 1-June 30, 2026 | This quarterly report describes the activities of the U.S. government in support of Operation Atlantic Resolve, as well as the work of the Department of Defense, the Department of State, and the U.S. Agency for International Development to promote the U.S. government’s policy goals related to Ukraine during the quarter. This report also discusses related planned, ongoing, and completed oversight work conducted by the Lead IG agencies and our partner oversight agencies during the quarter. |
Arms Control, Verification and Compliance (AVC), Budget and Planning (BP), Counterterrorism (CT), Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL), Diplomatic Security (DS), Economic and Business Affairs (EBA), Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA), Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs , Public Affairs (PA), Intelligence and Research (INR), International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL), International Organization Affairs (IO), Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs (OES), Overseas Buildings Operations (OBO), Political-Military Affairs (PM), Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM), Office of Foreign Assistance Oversight, U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) | |
| Office of Audits | Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) | Operation Enduring Sentinel, Including U.S. Government Activities Related to Afghanistan, Lead Inspector General Report to the United States Congress, April 1-June 30, 2026 | This quarterly report describes the activities of the U.S. government in support of Operation Enduring Sentinel, as well as the work of the Department of Defense, the Department of State, and the U.S. Agency for International Development to promote the U.S. government’s policy goals related to Afghanistan during the quarter. This report also discusses related planned, ongoing, and completed oversight work conducted by the Lead IG agencies and our partner oversight agencies during the quarter. |
Budget and Planning (BP), Bureau of Consular Affairs , Counterterrorism (CT), International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL), Political-Military Affairs (PM), Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM), South and Central Asian Affairs (SCA) | |
| Office of Audits | Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) | Operation Inherent Resolve, Including U.S. Government Activities Related to Iraq and Syria, Lead Inspector General Report to the United States Congress, April 1-June 30, 2026 | This quarterly report describes the activities of the U.S. government in support of Operation Inherent Resolve, as well as the work of the Department of Defense, the Department of State, and the U.S. Agency for International Development to promote the U.S. government’s policy goals in Iraq and Syria during the quarter. This report also discusses related planned, ongoing, and completed oversight work conducted by the Lead IG agencies and our partner oversight agencies during the quarter. |
Counterterrorism (CT), Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL), Diplomatic Security (DS), International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL), Near Eastern Affairs (NEA), Overseas Buildings Operations (OBO), Political-Military Affairs (PM), Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) | |
| Office of Audits | Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) | Operation Southern Guard Lead Inspector General Report to the United States Congress, April 1-June 30, 2026 | This quarterly report describes the activities of the U.S. government in support of Operation Southern Guard. This report also discusses related planned, ongoing, and completed oversight work conducted by the Lead IG agencies and our partner oversight agencies during the quarter. |
Western Hemisphere Affairs (WHA) | |
| Office of Audits | Strategic Priorities | Audit of the Department of State's Management of the Global Health Supply Chain Program Supporting Select African Countries | The primary objective of the audit is to determine whether the Department's management of the Global Health Supply Chain Program adhered to the America First Global Health Strategy and foreign assistance monitoring and oversight requirements, achieved intended results, and informed implementation of other global health assistance plans. |
Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy, African Affairs (AF), Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM), Office of Foreign Assistance Oversight | |
| Office of Audits | Acquisitions and Federal Assistance | Audit of the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations’ Management of Selected Construction Project Schedules | The objective for this is to determine whether the construction project schedules for select projects supported effective and timely project completion. |
Overseas Buildings Operations (OBO) | |
| Office of Audits | Cybersecurity and Information Assurance | Management Alert: Immediate Attention is Needed To Protect the Confidentiality and Integrity of Department of State Data on OpenNet | As a part of the Audit of Department of State Password Management, OIG identified an underlying issue with the Department's file sharing permissions on OpenNet. The management alert is intended to bring immediate awareness to the identified weaknesses and garner the necessary action to protect the confidentiality and integrity of the Department's critical information on OpenNet. |
Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources, Office of the (D/MR), Bureau of Diplomatic Security, Bureau of Diplomatic Technology, Bureau of Global Talent Management (GTM) | |
| Office of Audits | Financial Management | Management Letter Related to the Audit of the International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico, U.S. Section, FY 2025 Financial Statements | The objective of the audit is to determine whether the Department’s financial statements and related notes are presented fairly, in all material respects, in conformity with accounting standards. |
International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC) | |
| Office of Audits | Audit Operations, Quality, and Compliance | External Peer Review Report of the Office of Inspector General for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau | The objective of this external peer review is to determine whether, for the period under review, the FRB/CFPB OIG audit organization’s system of quality control was suitably designed and whether the audit organization was complying with its system of quality control to provide it with reasonable assurance of conformance with applicable professional standards and applicable legal and regulatory requirements. |
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| Office of Audits | Cybersecurity and Information Assurance | Audit of the Department of State's FY 2026 Information Security Program for Sensitive Compartmented Information Systems | The primary objective of the audit is to determine the effectiveness of Department of State's FY 2026 information security program and practices in accordance with the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 (FISMA) for Sensitive Compartmented Information systems. |
Bureau of Diplomatic Security, Bureau of Diplomatic Technology, Intelligence and Research (INR) | |
| Office of Audits | Financial Management | Audit of U.S. Agency for Global Media's FY 2025 Compliance With the Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019 | Determine whether the U.S. Agency for Global Media complied with the Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019 for FY 2025. |
U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) | |
| Office of Inspections | Inspection of Embassy Yerevan, Armenia | The objectives for this inspection are to assess the embassy’s policy implementation, resource management, and management controls. |
European and Eurasian Affairs (EUR) | ||
| Office of Inspections | Classified Inspection of Embassy Yerevan, Armenia | European and Eurasian Affairs (EUR) |
