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Lieberman Suggests Separating Contract Auditing Agency From DoD

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Thursday, September 24th, 2009

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By Calvin Biesecker Problems uncovered a year ago at some of the auditing offices of the Pentagon agency that scrutinizes defense contracts turn out to be more widespread throughout the agency according to a new government investigation, demonstrating that the Defense Contract Audit Agency's (DCAA) independence needs to be "strengthened," possibly by making it independent altogether, the chairman of the Senate committee that oversees governmental affairs said yesterday. "Perhaps its time to consider separating DCAA from the Department of Defense…

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