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They spent all this money on an audit that they knew ahead of time would be a failure, leaving aside the all important question of how and why did they know that ahead of time?
From the audit, they've apperently been buying inventory that doesn't show up. Got national security? lol. 406 million dollars on inventory that isn't there.
Anyway...
Pentagon Fails Its First-Ever Official Audit
The Pentagon failed its audit, but officials aren’t surprised
Here’s what the Pentagon’s first-ever audit found
Snippets...
One figure that is available: the audit itself cost $413 million, which the department notes is roughly 1/30 of one percent of the Pentagon’s overall budget. In addition, $406 million was spend on addressing issues found by the department, with another $153 million on “financial system fixes,” per a DoD factsheet — a total in FY18 of $972 million.
But wait, there's more...
“We never thought we were going to pass an audit, right? Everyone was betting against us that we wouldn’t even do the audit,” Shanahan told reporters Thursday at the Pentagon.
“Some of the compliance issues are irritating to me because the point of the audit is to drive better discipline in our compliance with our management systems and our procedures,” he added. “Some of those things frustrated me because we have a job to do and just have to follow our procedures.”
Among those issues are what Shanahan called “inventory accuracy,” or issues where the central database at the Pentagon identified inventory that simply wasn’t there in the real world. He also hit on the need to be “better” at cybersecurity compliance and discipline. (Emphasis added)
From the audit, they've apperently been buying inventory that doesn't show up. Got national security? lol. 406 million dollars on inventory that isn't there.
Anyway...
Pentagon Fails Its First-Ever Official Audit
The Pentagon failed its audit, but officials aren’t surprised
Here’s what the Pentagon’s first-ever audit found
Snippets...
One figure that is available: the audit itself cost $413 million, which the department notes is roughly 1/30 of one percent of the Pentagon’s overall budget. In addition, $406 million was spend on addressing issues found by the department, with another $153 million on “financial system fixes,” per a DoD factsheet — a total in FY18 of $972 million.
But wait, there's more...
“We never thought we were going to pass an audit, right? Everyone was betting against us that we wouldn’t even do the audit,” Shanahan told reporters Thursday at the Pentagon.
“Some of the compliance issues are irritating to me because the point of the audit is to drive better discipline in our compliance with our management systems and our procedures,” he added. “Some of those things frustrated me because we have a job to do and just have to follow our procedures.”
Among those issues are what Shanahan called “inventory accuracy,” or issues where the central database at the Pentagon identified inventory that simply wasn’t there in the real world. He also hit on the need to be “better” at cybersecurity compliance and discipline. (Emphasis added)
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