Overview: Summit conducted an exploratory analysis of services and outcomes for customers of federally-funded employment services for the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Chief Evaluation Office (CEO) and the Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (VETS). The report ...

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Chief Evaluation Office (CEO) contracted with the Program Evaluation (PE) team to provide technical support for the office’s core evaluation work. To support CEO’s evaluation activities, the PE team:

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Chief Evaluation Office (CEO) contracted with the Program Evaluation (PE) team to provide support for CEO’s new statistical and analytics services initiative. In an effort to help DOL agencies better understand their administrative data and leverage this ...

The Challenge: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is interested in evaluating the impact of the Site-Specific Targeting (SST) program. The program aims to maximize safety and health as well as regulatory compliance by focusing OSHA’s enforcement ...

Challenge: The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Office of Hospital Facilities (OHF) insures mortgages on acute care hospitals. OHF is comprised of two divisions that support underwriting and asset management of ...

Challenge: The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Utility Allowance Model (UAM) estimates utility usage for families in select HUD rental assistance and housing programs. The model uses an algorithm to estimate the expected utility usage for a tenant ...

Challenge: Historically, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD’s) discretionary grant programs have been authorized independently to meet particular needs, and these programs established their reporting requirements and related definitions ...

Summit is serving as a consulting expert in a series of lawsuits involving identifying defective underwriting of mortgage-backed securities and estimating the extent of these defects. These litigation matters include econometric modeling (including regression analysis), simulation models, ...

Challenge: The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) is a government agency providing mortgage insurance coverage to single-family homebuyers through the Mutual Mortgage Insurance (MMI) Fund, financed through the insurance premiums FHA collects on its insured loans. Effective in ...

Challenge: The Bond Guarantee Program (BG Program) was created under the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 and is administered by the Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) Fund within the U.S. Department of the Treasury. The BG Program provides ...