
New Air Force Secretary Deborah James said Wednesday the service owes it to the American people to be able to audit its books. The Defense Department is undergoing an initiative known as Financial Improvement and Audit Readiness (FIAR) as lawmakers have been demanding for years that DoD get its books ready for audit. The fiscal year 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) requires DoD’s Statement of Budgetary Resources (SBR) to be audit-ready by the end of FY ’14. The FY…