Army Expects Wartime-Contracting Shortfalls To Linger For Years

By Sebastian Sprenger / September 6, 2011 at 9:20 PM
The Army expects to formally resolve problems related to expeditionary contracting in 2014, seven years after the topic first showed up as a "material weakness" in annual service audits required by law. The time line is included in the attachments to an annual certification memo, dated Aug. 29, from Army Secretary John McHugh to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. Known as a "statement of assurance on internal controls" for fiscal year 2011, the memo was published in the same week that...

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