The Defense Department‘s Office of the Inspector General has found that the heads of multiple DoD components have yet to finish taking corrective action on almost 2,000 recommendations that the office proposed following various audits and evaluation initiatives. Recommendations in the 2018 Compendium report covered various topics such as logistics, intelligence, acquisition programs, …
Read More »GAO: DoD Should Centralize Info About Hosting Government Payloads on Commercial Satellites
The Government Accountability Office called on the Defense Department to collect and consolidate agency-wide knowledge about hosting government payloads aboard commercially manufactured satellites. GAO said Monday it found that, although multiple offices within the DoD engage in activities pertaining to commercially hosted payloads, they do so independently, resulting in a fragmented knowledge …
Read More »GAO: NIST Should Conduct Comprehensive Review of Services to Ensure Stakeholder Relevance
The Government Accountability Office has called on the National Institute of Standards and Technology to ensure its measurement and documentary standards services line up with and address the needs of industry. Specifically, the NIST should make it a policy to conduct a “periodic comprehensive management review of the agency’s measurement …
Read More »GAO: NASA Should Standardize Loss of Crew Risk Computation
The Government Accountability Office has recommended that NASA enforce a standard method for establishing the likelihood of astronauts being permanently injured or killed while on board a spacecraft. NASA’s administrator should instruct pertinent agency heads “to collectively determine and document… how the agency will determine its risk tolerance level with respect …
Read More »GSA Audit Reveals FAS Mobilized Contractor Workers Despite Lack of Security Clearance
An ongoing audit being conducted by the Office of Audits under the Office of Inspector General at the General Services Administration has revealed that the Federal Acquisition Service failed to ensure that all employees working under a federal task order had received requisite security clearance prior to being mobilized. Sonya …
Read More »Commerce Dept’s IG Audits FirstNet’s National Public Safety Broadband Network Contract With AT&T
The Commerce Department’s inspector general has commenced a year-long audit to assess how the First Responder Network Authority oversees the development of a national public safety broadband network through a contract awarded to AT&T, Reuters reported Friday. AT&T secured a potential $6.5 billion contract in March 2017 to build and …
Read More »David Norquist: DoD Should Prioritize Readiness As Govt Eyes Military Buildup in 2019
David Norquist, Defense Department undersecretary and comptroller, has said DoD should look at the “full spectrum of threats” as the agency works on the defense budget for fiscal 2019, Defense News reported Monday. Norquist told Defense News in an interview that possible areas of focus include cybersecurity and munitions. He also cited the …
Read More »David Norquist: DoD to Undergo Full-Scale Audit in 2018
David Norquist, Defense Department undersecretary and comptroller, has said DoD’s components and financial statements are scheduled to undergo full audits in 2018, Federal News Radio reported Tuesday. Norquist told lawmakers during a House Armed Services Committee hearing that DoD collaborated with independent public accounting companies to facilitate the full-scope audit. “Most …
Read More »Financial Mgmt Pro David Norquist Confirmed as Pentagon’s Comptroller
The Senate on Thursday voted unanimously to confirm David Norquist, a former partner at Alexandria, Virginia-based financial services contractor Kearney & Company, as comptroller of the Defense Department, Inside Defense reported Thursday. President Donald Trump nominated Norquist to the DoD comptroller post in March. Norquist said during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee earlier …
Read More »David Norquist: DoD Size, Complexity Should Not Hinder Department Audit
David Norquist, President Donald Trump’s nominee for the Defense Department comptroller post, has said the time is ripe for DoD to undergo an audit, Federal News Radio reported Wednesday. Norquist told lawmakers Wednesday during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing that DoD has begun audit readiness efforts over the last seven years …
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