QUALITY MANAGEMENT SUBCOMMITTEE
Quality Standards for Federal Offices of Inspector General (Silver Book) requires each Office of Inspector General to establish and maintain a quality assurance program to ensure that work performed complies with established OIG policies and procedures; meets applicable professional standards; and is carried out economically, efficiently, and effectively.
Message from the Board
Quality management professionals have the opportunity and vital responsibility for catalyzing transformational change, self-awareness, and a culture of continuous learning and improvement within their organizations. On behalf of the Subcommittee Board and fellow members, we invite you to participate with us in this vibrant, dynamic, and growing community. Arrive with your questions, lend your expertise, and contribute to a variety of initiatives that will further develop the community and yourself.
Meeting Schedule
The Subcommittee meets on a quarterly basis. Meetings are typically held in the following months: February, May, July/August, and November/December.
Meetings are held virtually, via VTC (with a dial-in teleconference option).
Board/Leadership
The Subcommittee is comprised of a Board and members. The Board – Subcommittee’s official leadership – consists of the Chair, Vice-Chair, and two Operations Officers.
Goals/Objectives + Charter
The Subcommittee’s overall goals and objectives are to:
- Identify, document, and share resources, insights, and good/best practices to assist the OIG community with its QM activities.
- Enhance the understanding of how the Federal OIG QM community selects, plans, performs, reports, and follows-up on QM activities.
- Foster a network of support and communication for the Federal OIG QM community.
- Provide learning, sharing, and professional development activities to enhance QM subject matter expertise across the Federal OIG community.
- Share current industry-related developments relevant to the OIG and QM communities.
The Subcommittee’s Charter can be found here (in the process of updating)
Products, Activities, Resources
Whitepapers: QA Good Practices. The Subcommittee developed and recently issued five industry whitepapers related to quality assurance, directly focusing on those areas senior leadership across the Federal OIG Audits community deemed priorities:
- Monitoring and Reporting Quality Assurance
- Audit Sampling
- Data Reliability
- Supervisory Review
- Audit risk
QA Community Profile. The Subcommittee has initiated an ambitious benchmarking project aimed at identifying the Federal OIG community’s approach to quality assurance across the entirety of the CIGIE community, particularly from an Audits perspective. Standby for exciting developments…
Implementation of Government Auditing Standards (2024), Quality Management. The Subcommittee continues to contribute to informing the Federal OIG Audit community’s implementation of the Yellow Book’s quality management requirements – including:
- convening an interagency working group of ~35 OIGs;
- presenting 2 Learning Forums on System of Quality Management requirements and a showcase of OIG implementation (Risk Assessment and Monitoring/Remediation); and
- issuing the resources, Toolkit for Implementing Quality Management Risk Assessments, 2024 Government Auditing Standards; including the GAS Quality Management Risk Assessment Tool.
Resources
Slidedeck - Implementing a Yellow Book SQM Subcommittee Learning Forum (8/19/2025)
GAS and SQM - Monitoring-Remediation QMC Learning Forum (2/9/2026)
DOJ OIG SQM - Implementation QMC Learning Forum (2/9/2026)
SBA OIG SQM - Implementation QMC Learning Forum (2/9/2026)
Tools
Subcommittee GAS Quality Management Risk Assessment Tool (Toolkit Appendix A) (August 2025)
Professional Development and Continuing Education. The Subcommittee has established professional development and learning opportunities for its membership community, including in the areas of auditing; inspections and evaluations; quality assurance and control frameworks; and professional standards. Select presentation materials can be found here:
- Feedback that Fuels Success: The Art of Giving and Receiving Feedback (October 2026)
- Creating an Environment to Lead (Subcommittee: 6/2026)
- The Silver Book and Quality Assurance (Subcommittee; 3/2025)
- The Green Book: Standards for Internal Control in the Federal Government (GAO/Subcommittee; 7/2024)
- Assessing and Responding to Errors in Published Reports (Subcommittee; 12/2023).
- Navigating Difficult Conversations for Quality Management Practitioners (Subcommittee; 5/2023)
- CIGIE’s Federal Audit Executive Council (FAEC) (Subcommittee; 2/2023)
- Quality Assurance and Risk Management (Subcommittee; 8/2022)
- Focus on P.O.W.E.R. (Subcommittee; 4/2022)
- The Trust Advantage (Subcommittee; 2/2022)
- GAO’s Quality Assurance Framework (Subcommittee; 9/2021)
- New Blue Book Training (Subcommittee; 5/2021)
Membership & Participating Agencies
The Subcommittee welcomes participation across the CIGIE Quality Management community. Please contact the Board to join. We look forward to welcoming you.
Current membership includes representation from the following agencies, primarily from Office of Inspectors General:
- AmeriCorps
- Amtrak
- Architect of the Capital
- Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System / Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
- Commodity Futures Trading Commission
- Consumer Product Safety Commission
- Corporation for Public Broadcasting
- Defense Information Systems Agency
- Defense Intelligence Agency
- Department of Agriculture
- Department of Commerce
- Department of Defense
- Department of Education
- Department of Homeland Security
- Department of Justice
- Department of Labor
- Department of State
- Department of Transportation
- Department of Treasury
- Election Assistance Commission
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
- Export-Import Bank of the United States
- Farm Credit Administration
- Federal Communications Commission
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
- Federal Election Commission
- Federal Housing Finance Agency
- Federal Maritime Commission
- Federal Reserve Board
- Federal Trade Commission
- General Services Administration
- Government Accountability Office
- Health and Human Services
- Housing and Urban Development
- Intelligence Community
- Legal Services Corporation
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- National Archives and Records Administration
- National Credit Union Administration
- National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
- National Intelligence Community
- National Labor Relations Board
- National Science Foundation
- National Security Agency
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- Office of the Intelligence Community
- Office of Personnel Management
- Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
- Security and Exchange Commission
- Small Business Administration
- Smithsonian Institution
- Social Security Administration
- Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program
- Tennessee Valley Authority
- Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration
- U.S. Agency for International Development
- U.S. Airforce
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
- U.S. Capitol Police
- U.S. International Development Finance Corporation
- U.S. International Trade Commission
- U.S. Marshals Service
- U.S. Military
- U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
- U.S. Postal Service
- Veterans Administration
History/Background
In June 2016, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System/Consumer Financial Protection Bureau OIG (FRB-CFPB) sent a survey that included questions to determine the OIG community’s interest in a working group focused on Quality Assurance (QA), to share good practices and develop a network of QA professionals for advice and support. Nearly all the OIGs that responded agreed that an OIG community-wide QA working group would help improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their QA reviews. Consequently, the FRB-CFPB OIG hosted the first (kick-off) meeting in October 2016. In 2019, the Quality Assurance Working Group (QAWG) was formally recognized as part of the Federal Audit Executive Council (FAEC). In 2023, the Audit Committee elevated the QAWG to a full, permanent, standing committee under FAEC. In doing so, the QAWG expanded its focus to address Quality Management more comprehensively and was renamed the Quality Management Committee. Reorganizations and nomenclature standardizations efforts within FAEC in 2024 entailed QMC to be referred to as a subcommittee; the change was in name only.
QMC 10-Year Anniversary: October 2016-2026
Note: Membership/participation in Subcommittee does not necessarily imply agency/OIG sponsorship or endorsement of Subcommittee nor its activities or products.