A House panel tasked with addressing the Pentagon's financial management challenges will hold the first of many early Thursday morning hearings today in its quest to prepare recommendations to ensure the Defense Department meets its September 2017 audit readiness deadline. DOD Comptroller Robert Hale, Deputy Chief Management Officer Beth McGrath and Asif Khan, the director of financial management and assurance for the Government Accountability Office, are slated to testify for the new bipartisan financial management panel today at 8 a.m...