Kenneth Bach was named Acting Inspector General of the Corporation for National and Community Service on June 11, 2009.

Bach also continues to serve the OIG as Assistant Inspector General for Support, a position he has held since May 2008. In that role, Bach supervises personnel assigned to the day-to-day operations of the OIG, including budgeting and finances, information technology, communications, and overall support for audits and investigations.

Bach joined the OIG in September 2004 as the Technology Coordinator. Within a few months he was reassigned as the OIG’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO), a role he has retained along with his current assignments. As the CTO, Bach is responsible for managing the OIG’s Information Technology systems and serving as the primary as point of contact for any technology issues that affect the OIG.He also provides guidance and advice to both the OIG’s investigative and audit sections on Federal technology issues and policy.

Bach came to the OIG from the Department of the Interior’s OIG Program Integrity Division, where he led an investigative team focusing on senior Interior employees accepting favors from lobbying groups and individuals. Mr. Bach was responsible for developing an automated system that could scan thousands of documents and then connect the information from these documents into a link analysis program that provided a timetable of events from which successful investigative leads were developed.

Bach served for 22 years in the U.S. Army, where he was a Criminal Investigation Division agent specializing in white-collar crime. Born in Buffalo, New York, he is a graduate of the Federal Executive Institute, President’s Council on Integrity and Efficiency, Leadership Development Academy. Bach earned a bachelor’s degree, cum laude, in Criminal Justice from the University of Central Florida in 1998

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