CIGIE Releases First-Ever Report on the Top Management and Performance Challenges Facing Multiple Federal Agencies: “Today, the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE) released its first-ever report of the top management and performance challenges facing multiple federal agencies. For nearly 20 years, individual Inspectors General have created management challenges reports identifying the most critical, systemic problems facing the agencies they oversee. Today’s report marks the first time that the Inspectors General, through CIGIE, have examined these reports from across the federal government to identify and analyze challenges that are common to their agencies. The report identifies the 7 challenges that were the most frequently reported in management challenges reports created by individual federal Offices of Inspector General in 2017. The complete PDF text of the report is here. Those 7 challenges are:

• Information Technology Security and Management
• Performance Management and Accountability
• Human Capital Management
• Financial Management
• Procurement Management
• Facilities Maintenance
• Grant Management”