
The “great majority” of Defense Department financial records will be audit-ready by a Sept. 30 deadline, but the department will not audit records it knows won’t pass, DoD Comptroller Robert Hale told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Tuesday. DoD set a series of goals for itself during the tenure of former secretary Leon Panetta: by the end of fiscal year 2014, the department would have all its Statements of Budgetary Resources audit-ready, and in FY ’15…