Report Of Investigation: Mr. Robert A. Gold, Former Director, Technology and Manufacturing Industrial Base, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and[...]

Report Of Investigation: Mr. Robert A. Gold, Former Director, Technology and Manufacturing Industrial Base, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (Report No. DODIG-2025-010)

Administrative Investigations

The Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD[R&E]) received two complaints on March 7, 2022, against Mr. Robert A. Gold, Senior Executive Service (SES), Director, Technology and Manufacturing Industrial Base (TMIB), OUSD(R&E). On April 26, 2022, the OUSD(R&E) referred the two complaints to the DoD Office of Inspector General (DoD OIG)

On June 28, 2022, we initiated an investigation into allegations that Mr. Gold sexually harassed female subordinates, including making sexually explicit and offensive gender-based comments. We evaluated Mr. Gold's conduct against applicable standards summarized throughout this report. We present the full standards in Appendix A of this report.

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