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Subcommittee hearing: DoD still short of department‑wide clean audit; Marine Corps cited as model
Summary
At a House Oversight & Reform Subcommittee hearing, witnesses said the Department of Defense has not produced a department‑wide clean audit despite progress in some components — notably the U.S. Marine Corps — and GAO added fraud risk management to its scorecard tracking DoD audit readiness.
At a hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform’s Subcommittee on Government Operations, witnesses told lawmakers the Department of Defense still cannot produce a department‑wide clean audit even as the U.S. Marine Corps reported unmodified opinions for fiscal years 2023 and 2024.
The hearing focused on why DoD has repeatedly failed consolidated financial audits, what the Marine Corps did differently to win a clean opinion, and newly added measures to track fraud risk. Subcommittee members and witnesses described persistent problems with legacy IT systems, fragmented accounting practices across components, missing contract and spare‑parts records for programs such as the Joint Strike Fighter, and long‑standing “material weaknesses” in internal controls.
Lieutenant General James Adams III, the Marine Corps’ deputy commandant for programs and resources, told the subcommittee that the Marine Corps “received an unmodified audit opinion on our fiscal year 2023 full financial statement audit and maintain that opinion for…
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