
President Joe Biden’s nominee to serve as the Pentagon’s next comptroller said Tuesday it will likely be “a few more years” before the department’s financial audit receives a clean opinion, adding he will focus on information access and control measures that could help reduce areas of wasteful spending. Michael McCord, who previously held the same role during the Obama administration, told the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) that progress on the financial audit won’t solve the full swath of the…