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DoD Fails To Meet Audit Timeline, Says FY ’15 Is 91 Percent Complete

Pat Host

Thursday, February 5th, 2015

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DoD Fails To Meet Audit Timeline, Says FY ’15 Is 91 Percent Complete

Though the Defense Department failed to meet a key Sept. 30 deadline of achieving audit readiness for years-long budget activity documents, the Pentagon believes it has made “great progress.”Approximately 91 percent of fiscal year 2015 is under independent audit, the office of Pentagon comptroller Mike McCord said in DoD’s November Financial Improvement and Audit Readiness (FIAR) plan status report. DoD said this is a tremendous accomplishment and the funds that will be under audit represent most of the financial information…

Congress

House Republicans’ Blueprint For Reconciliation 3.0 Includes $60 Billion For Defense

House Republicans on Wednesday unveiled a blueprint for a third reconciliation bill that includes $60 billion for defense, a figure slightly below the Trump administration’s request to cover Iran war […]

Congress

Senate Dems Block Consideration Of FY ‘27 NDAA Over Iran War Concerns

Senate Democrats on Tuesday blocked a vote to advance consideration of the chamber’s $1.14 trillion fiscal year 2027 National Defense Authorization (NDAA). The procedural vote was 46-50, failing to reach […]

Congress

Concerns Raised At SASC Hearing On Unobligated Reconciliation Funds And Lack Of Updates On Iran War Cost

Members of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) raised concerns at a hearing on Tuesday about the majority of funds in the $153 billion first reconciliation bill being unobligated thus […]

Unmanned Systems

CBO Says Upfront Costs To Protect Military Installations From Drones Between $1 Million And $74 Million

The initial costs to acquire and deploy counter-small unmanned aircraft system (C-sUAS) defenses at individual Defense Department installations are estimated at between $1.2 million and $73.6 million depending on the […]