
The Pentagon’s perennial failure to receive a clean financial audit could be improved with bolstered data systems for personnel, acquisition and logistics information, a panel of experts told lawmakers on Tuesday. “DoD suffers from an alarming lack of accurate and consistent data on almost all of its core business functions. This problem makes it exceptionally difficult for anyone who wants to drive change,” Elizabeth Field, the Government Accountability Office’s director of Defense Capabilities and Management, told the Senate Armed Services…