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DoD Easing Audit Mandate For Smaller Contractors

Julie Samuel

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011

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The Pentagon is trying to lessen requirements for smaller contractors to undergo government audits, an official told a congressional panel charged with helping defense companies do business with the Defense Department. Andre Gudger, director of the Pentagon’s Office of Small Business Programs, told a House Armed Services Committee (HASC) subcommittee yesterday that military officials conducting roundtables with industry “certainly have heard” concerns about smaller contractors being required to undergo extensive Pentagon audits, as their larger counterparts are. “We’re looking at reducing…

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