Louis C. King joined the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Office of Inspector General (OIG) in 2008. DOT has budgetary resources in excess of $100 billion and spends more than $90 billion annually to develop and maintain a safe transportation system. DOT uses over 400 information systems to support its operations—the majority of which belong to the Federal Aviation Administration and are used to control air traffic. As the Assistant Inspector General for Financial and IT audits, Louis leads the development and execution of an audit plan to test DOT’s accountability over its vast financial resources and its controls over its systems and information, including personally identifiable information. He also ensures the execution of this plan using a combination of highly trained financial auditors, information technology specialists and contractors, as well as technological resources. These audits identify DOT’s internal c ontrol strengths and weaknesses which we communicate to DOT—to help it improve the management of its financial and technological resources—and to the American public.
Louis King came to DOT OIG from the Department of Treasury OIG in 2008. Mr. King started at Treasury OIG in July 1998 as Senior Auditor and Contracting Officer’s Representative for financial audits and was later promoted to Director of Financial Audits. In that role, Mr. King was responsible for directing multiple financial statement audits of Treasury’s components. In 2003, Mr. King became the Treasury OIG’s Director of IT Audits and assumed the responsibility for conduction information security audits of Treasury’s operations. Prior to his stint at the Treasury OIG, Mr. King spent nearly a decade at the Government Accountability Office (GAO) overseeing, managing and conducting financial statement and management audits.