Calendar Year 2020

As a result of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act), the
Department of Energy (Department) received $3.2 billion for grants to states, territories, local
governments, and Indian tribes under the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant
(Block Grant) Program. To help manage and track block grants, the Department's Office of
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) plans to spend approximately $9.5 million,
nearly all of which is Recovery Act funding, for development and operation of the web-based
Performance and Accountability for Grants in Energy (PAGE) System. PAGE began limited
operation in September 2009 and was utilized by Block Grant recipients for quarterly Recovery
Act reporting beginning in October 2009. PAGE will also replace the Windows System
Approach to Grants Administration (WinSAGA) legacy system for tracking grant recipients'
performance under the State Energy and Weatherization Assistance Programs, programs that
received a combined $8.1 billion through the Recovery Act.

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), in partnership with the Department of
Defense, maintains the Nation's arsenal of nuclear weapons through a geographically dispersed
Nuclear Weapons Complex (Complex). In support of this mission, NNSA relies upon numerous
and disparate site-specific and cross-Complex information systems to help manage the nuclear
weapon product life-cycle process. NNSA, in its own planning documents, has noted that since
Fiscal Year (FY) 2000, it had devoted considerable resources to these systems, acknowledging
that their operation and management costs were not always well defined nor completely
understood.
To respond effectively to changing requirements, and, share and exchange weapon product
information among sites, NNSA established its Product Realization Integrated Digital Enterprise
(PRIDE) Program in FY 2007. PRIDE was established to develop and deploy a modernized,
integrated suite of enhanced information technology (IT) capabilities to securely deliver weapon
product life-cycle information to users across sites. NNSA anticipated that PRIDE would result
in a reduction in weapon development cycle times and associated expenses. By the second year
of the program, PRIDE consisted of over 100 sub-projects. NNSA originally planned to
complete development activities within the PRIDE program by the end of FY 2014 at a projected
total cost of approximately $83 million. Given the importance and significant cost of the PRIDE
initiative, we conducted this audit to determine whether development had been managed in a
manner that would permit the system to achieve its intended goals and objectives.

The Department of Energy (Department) regulates and inspects the safety of its own facilities and operations, many of which involve radioactive or hazardous materials. On October 15, 1996, the Department issued DOE Policy 450.4, Safety Management System Policy, which recognizes that Safety Management Systems provide a formal, organized process whereby people can plan, perform, assess, and improve the safe conduct of work. The Safety Management System process is institutionalized through Department directives and is incorporated into contracts to establish Department-wide safety management objectives, guiding principles, and functions. Department policy requires that safety be systematically integrated into management and work practices at all levels, thus enabling mission accomplishment as well as protection of the public, worker, and environment.

The Nuclear Waste Policy Act Amendments of 1987 (Act) designated Yucca Mountain in
Southwestern Nevada as the site for a national geologic repository for high-level nuclear waste,
primarily the waste generated by U.S. commercial nuclear plants. The Department of Energy
(Department) assigned management of the program to the Office of Civilian Nuclear Waste
Management (OCRWM) and formally designated the project as the Yucca Mountain Project
(Project).

A spam e‐mail claiming to be from DOE Inspector General Gregory Friedman
is currently being circulated. The emails solicit personal information for the purpose of facilitating the transfer of funds. This attempt to defraud is a typical e‐mail scam using the name and reputation of a government official to create an air of authenticity. The appearance of the e‐mail leads the reader to believe that it is from DOE Inspector General Friedman.