A high Home Republican despatched a letter Wednesday to the governmental watchdog group, the Authorities Accountability Workplace (GAO), calling for elevated oversight of the Pentagon after the company failed its seventh audit in a row.
Rep. Pete Classes (R-Texas), who chairs the Home Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee on Authorities Operations and the Federal Workforce, stated within the letter to the GAO that he was requesting the watchdog sustain its help with monitoring the Pentagon’s funds.
“This will allow us to track [the Department of Defense (DOD)’s] progress toward achieving a clean audit opinion as well as progress in key areas that support a clean audit — the status of DOD financial management system modernization efforts and compliance with relevant legislative requirements,” Classes wrote within the letter obtained by The Hill.
The Pentagon introduced final month that it failed its seventh audit in a row, however the federal company, which has a greater than $800 billion annual price range, stated it has made progress in working towards a clear audit.
Pentagon Comptroller Michael McCord stated after the audit outcomes got here out that the Pentagon has made progress and is working towards a clear audit by 2028.
McCord additionally disputed the characterization that the Pentagon failed the audit, claiming that since round half of the businesses handed and half failed, it was not truthful to provide the Protection Division a failing grade.
In his letter, Classes famous that GAO has designated the Pentagon with “pervasive deficiencies in the department’s business processes, internal controls, financial reporting, and financial management systems.”
However he additionally famous the Protection Division has “improved over time and continued improvements can lead to financial or operational outcomes resulting from those efforts.”
“Currently, significant challenges remain and DOD remains the only major agency that has never been able to achieve a clean audit opinion,” Classes wrote.
The Pentagon has not handed an audit for the reason that company turned legally obligated to hold them out in 2018.
