Fiscal Year 2018 Inspector General Statement on the U.S. Agency for Global Media’s Major Management and Performance Challenges

Each year, in accordance with the Reports Consolidation Act of 2000,¹ the Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), formerly known as the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG),² identifies the most serious management and performance challenges facing the agency and briefly assesses progress in addressing those challenges. The resulting report is included in the agency’s annual performance and accountability report.
Our oversight work gives us unique visibility into the most significant challenges facing BBG, and OIG concludes that the following were the most important challenges BBG faced in FY 2018:

• Information security and management
• Financial and property management
• Grant management

These issues go to the core of BBG’s programs and operations and have been crucial challenges for the past three years. Continued attention to these concerns will improve BBG’s operations and, accordingly, its ability to fulfill its underlying mission. We hope that this report, read together with the work OIG produces throughout the year, assists BBG in its efforts.

_{1 The Reports Consolidation Act of 2000, § 3, Pub. L. 106-531 (amending 31 U.S.C. § 3516).
2 This report references “BBG” throughout because all of the cited work pre-dates the agency’s name change.}