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Hale: Business processes an obstacle to DoD clean audits

When the Marine Corps tried auditing its statement of budgetary resource, it found that its information technology system wasn't the main obstacle toward getting a clean opinion, said Robert Hale,

DoD ERP implementation woes include feeder systems

Worries about the Defense Department's implementation of enterprise resource planning systems increasingly encompasses data quality from feeder systems. The Army has hired an independent auditor to

Hale: Continuing resolution creates inefficiencies in DoD

A Defense Department official decried uncertainties caused by congressional inability to approve a spending bill that would fund the government for the remainder of the fiscal year during a March 29

Think tank warns against reinvestment plans before DoD efficiency savings are realized

The Defense Department is doing what a top official once warned against--using anticipated efficiency savings to fund weapons systems, said Todd Harrison, a senior fellow in budget studies at Center

DoD wants $1 billion for clean audit prep through fiscal 2014

The Defense Department plans to spend nearly a billion dollars through fiscal 2014 on its effort to attain a clean financial audit by the end of fiscal 2017, according to a Pentagon comptroller

DoD will spend at least $6.9 billion more on ERPs

The future financial systems health of the Defense Department depends on enterprise resource planning projects that are mostly late and over budget, according to the Government Accountability Office.