{"id":32875,"date":"2018-11-16T13:46:59","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T13:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/11\/16\/heres-what-the-pentagons-first-ever-audit-found\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T00:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:08:07","slug":"heres-what-the-pentagons-first-ever-audit-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/federal-oversight\/2018\/11\/16\/heres-what-the-pentagons-first-ever-audit-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s what the Pentagon\u2019s first-ever audit found"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 The Pentagon\u2019s first-ever audit discovered major flaws in how it handles IT processes and challenges with its internal tracking databases, but did not discover any major cases of fraud or abuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The audit \u2014 long sought by Congress and good-government groups \u2014 was unveiled Thursday evening. The effort covered $2.7 trillion in DoD assets. Calling it a single audit isn\u2019t strictly right, as the effort, led by the Department of Defense\u2019s inspector general, in collaboration with the comptroller\u2019s office, was actually 21 different audits done by a collection of auditing teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over 1,000 auditors from outside firms, as well as 150 from DoD OIG, visited over 600 DoD locations, requested over 40,000 documents, and tested over 90,000 sample items, per a department fact sheet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effort overall is considered a \u201cfailed\u201d audit in the strict term, as only 5 of the 21 individual audits checked received a fully passing grade, with two more receiving an ok grade. But department officials were quick to note that was no expectation that the audit would be clean, given the size and scope of the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\t