
The Pentagon has failed its fifth consecutive audit, with the department’s comptroller telling reporters it’s “not the progress I would have hoped for” as it works toward reaching an eventual full clean opinion. Mike McCord, the Pentagon’s comptroller and chief financial officer, noted that of the 27 individual audits conducted about 40 percent received clean opinions, one individual audit yielded a modified opinion and the remaining received disclaimers. ‘This is basically the same picture of last year,” McCord said, according…