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DoD Wants Private Sector Help Prepping For Audit

Julie Samuel

Friday, October 7th, 2011

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The Pentagon wants to tap financial experts from the private sector for short-term assistance as it nears its 2017 deadline for being ready for a full audit. Sandra Gregory, special assistant to Defense Comptroller Robert Hale, told a House Armed Services Committee (HASC) panel that the Pentagon wants to implement such a program, which would be like the new Information Technology Exchange Program (ITEP) exchange between the Department of Defense (DoD) and private sector. “The DoD deems that a similar exchange…

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