Frankly, so are the taxpayers, because we spend money we do not have and we have to do our best efforts for our war figh...
It is enormously helpful to be able to say to folks up and down the line in the different branches of our armed forces, ...
I think the Secretary of Defense has provided that.
Given our budget situation, it is important, like you said, to stretch a dollar as far as we can.
Currently, the Department of Defense (DOD) is incapable of doing this.
That is encouraging.
if we are able to continue on his path and actually achieve the auditability and get some clean audits by 2017 or therea...
Tech demo, I wanted to use that word today.
I think you said you were going to yield to our friends from the Army and the Air Force.
We should be doing as good a job with respect to managing our finances as well as we are in Dover in handling the airlif...
I am grateful to him for his focus and interest in these issues and his staff.
That is what I call being on message, and it is a good message to have.
What we measure we manage, and with the cost of the Federal Government we need to do a better job of measuring.
Better results for less money or at least better results for the same amount of money.
Our ultimate goal here is not a clean financial statement audit. That is a symptom.
There is no substitute for jumping in the pool. We are not going to learn to swim unless we do that.
We could learn from other States what they are doing well or what they did not do well. We learn from their mistakes.
I think it is helpful and it is yet another reason why we have to turn these things on and try them rather than maybe bu...
