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Top Management Challenges
- Safeguarding National Security and Ensuring Privacy and Civil Liberties Protections
- Enhancing Cybersecurity in an Era of Increasing Threats
- Managing an Overcrowded Federal Prison System in an Era of Declining Resources
- Strengthening the Relationships Between Law Enforcement and Local Communities and Promoting Public Trust
- Coordinating within the Department and Across Government to Fulfill the Department’s Mission to Combat Crime
- Administering and Overseeing Contracts and Grants
- Using Performance-Based Management To Improve Department Programs
- Filling Mission Critical Positions Despite Competition for Highly-Skilled Professionals and Delays in the Onboarding Process
- Safeguarding National Security and Ensuring Privacy and Civil Liberties Protections
- Enhancing Cybersecurity in an Era of Increasing Threats
- Managing an Overcrowded Federal Prison System in an Era of Limited Budgets and Continuing Security Concerns
- Strengthening the Relationships Between Law Enforcement and Local Communities Through Partnership and Oversight
- Helping to Address Violent Crime Through Effective Management of Department Anti-Violence Programs
- Ensuring Effective Management and Oversight of Law Enforcement Programs and Promoting Public Trust
- Monitoring Department Contracts and Grants
- Managing Human Capital and Promoting Diversity With a Workforce Increasingly Eligible to Retire
- Using Performance-Based Management To Improve DOJ Programs
- Achieving Balance and Containing Costs in a Significantly Overcrowded Federal Prison System
- Enhancing Cybersecurity in an Era of Increasing Threats
- Building Trust and Improving Police-Community Relationships
- Safeguarding National Security Consistent with Civil Rights and Liberties
- Ensuring Effective Oversight of Law Enforcement Programs
- Promoting Public Confidence by Ensuring Ethical Conduct throughout the Department
- Effectively Implementing Performance-Based Management
- Protecting Taxpayer Funds from Mismanagement and Misuse
- Addressing the Persisting Crisis in the Federal Prison System
- Safeguarding National Security Consistent with Civil Rights and Liberties
- Enhancing Cybersecurity in an Era of Ever-Increasing Threats
- Effectively Implementing Performance-Based Management
- Ensuring Effective and Efficient Oversight of Law Enforcement Programs
- Upholding the Highest Standards of Integrity and Public Service
- Protecting Taxpayer Funds from Mismanagement and Misuse
- Addressing the Growing Crisis in the Federal Prison System
- Safeguarding National Security Consistent with Civil Rights and Liberties
- Protecting Taxpayer Funds from Mismanagement and Misuse
- Enhancing Cybersecurity
- Ensuring Effective and Efficient Law Enforcement
- Restoring Confidence in the Integrity, Fairness, and Accountability of the Department
- Safeguarding National Security
- Enhancing Cyber Security
- Managing the Federal Prison System
- Leading the Department in an Era of Budget Constraints
- Protecting Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
- Restoring Confidence
- Coordinating Among Law Enforcement Agencies
- Enforcing Against Fraud and Financial Offenses
- Administering Grants and Contracts
- Ensuring Effective International Law Enforcement
- Counterterrorism
- Implementing Cost Savings and Efficiencies
- Southwest Border Security Issues
- Protecting Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
- Information Technology Systems Planning, Implementation, and Security
- Criminal Law Enforcement
- Restoring Confidence in the Department
- Financial Enforcement
- Detention and Incarceration
- Grants and Contract Management
- Counterterrorism
- Restoring Confidence in the Department of Justice
- Law Enforcement Issues Along the Southwest Border
- Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
- Information Technology Systems Planning, Implementation, and Security
- Violent and Organized Crime
- Financial Crimes and Cyber Crimes
- Detention and Incarceration
- Grant Management
- Financial Management
- Counterterrorism
- Restoring Confidence in the Department of Justice
- Recovery Act Funding and Oversight
- Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
- Financial Crimes
- Sharing of Intelligence and Law Enforcement Information
- Grant Management
- Detention and Incarceration
- Information Technology Systems Planning, Implementation, and Security
- Financial Management and Systems
- Counterterrorism
- Sharing of Intelligence and Law Enforcement Information
- Information Technology Systems Planning, Implementation, and Security
- Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
- Restoring Confidence in the Department of Justice
- Violent Crime
- Cybercrime
- Grant Management
- Detention and Incarceration
- Financial Management and Systems
- Counterterrorism
- Restoring Confidence in the Department of Justice
- Financial Management and Systems
- Grant Management
- Violent Crime
- Detention and Incarceration
- Sharing of Intelligence and Law Enforcement Information
- Information Technology Systems Planning, Implementation, and Security
- Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
- Cybercrime
- Counterterrorism
- Sharing of Law Enforcement and Intelligence Information
- Information Technology Systems Planning, Implementation, and Security
- Violent Crime
- Financial Management and Systems
- Detention and Incarceration
- Supply and Demand for Drugs
- Grant Management
- Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
- Cybercrime
- Counterterrorism
- Sharing of Intelligence and Law Enforcement Information
- Department and FBI Intelligence-Related Reorganizations
- Information Technology Systems Planning and Implementation
- Information Technology Security
- Financial Management and Systems
- Grant Management
- Detention and Incarceration
- Judicial Security
- Supply and Demand for Drugs
- Counterterrorism
- Sharing of Intelligence and Law Enforcement Information
- Information Technology Systems Planning and Implementation
- Computer Systems Security
- Financial Management and Systems
- Grant Management
- Detention and Incarceration
- Human Capital
- Forensic Laboratories
- Supply and Demand for Drugs
- Counterterrorism
- Sharing of Intelligence and Law Enforcement Information
- Information Technology Systems Planning and Implementation
- Computer Systems Security
- Financial Management
- Grant Management
- Performance-Based Management
- Human Capital
- Protecting the Security of Department Information and Infrastructure
- Reducing the Supply of and Demand for Drugs
- Counterterrorism
- Sharing of Intelligence and Law Enforcement Information
- Information Systems Planning and Implementation
- Computer Systems Security
- Detention Space
- Financial Statements and Systems
- Grant Management
- Performance-Based Management
- Human Capital
- Department of Justice Reorganizations
- Counterterrorism
- Sharing of Intelligence and Law Enforcement Information
- Information Systems Planning and Implementation
- Computer Systems Security
- The INS's Enforcement of Immigration Laws
- Financial Statements and Systems
- Detention Space and Infrastructure - the USMS and the INS
- Grant Management
- Performance Based Management
- Department of Justice Organizational Structure
- Information Systems Planning and Implementation
- Computer Systems Security
- Financial Statements and Systems
- Departmental Response to Terrorism
- Prison Overcrowding
- Detention Space and Infrastructure - USMS and INS
- INS's Border Strategy
- Removal of Illegal Aliens
- Grant Management
- Human Capital
Updated: November 2017
OIG Mission
To detect and deter waste, fraud, abuse, and misconduct in DOJ programs and personnel, and to promote economy and efficiency in those programs.