"This hearing goes to the heart of the fiscal crisis that faces our Nation."
"I think what that report showed is that the reconstruction money, defense dollars, are particularly susceptible to waste, fraud, and mismanagement."
"I want to welcome our witnesses and thank them for appearing today."
"Secretary Hale, exactly how is that objective necessary for achieving full audit readiness?"
"I am concerned that DOD has too much of a budget focus and not enough of a focus on what they are spending the $700 billion Congress has given them."
"Secretary Hale and Ms. McGrath, please provide a rough order of magnitude of how much could be saved--in terms of dollars and personnel--by this approach vis-a-vis DFAS?"
"effectively using a well-defined enterprise architecture is vital to organizational transformation and systems modernization."
"why is DOD buying ERPs without deliverables for ensuring these systems can pass an audit?"
"we are concerned that DOD is spending billions of dollars on new state-of-the-art systems but in the end these systems will not be able to provide it with the compliant processes and adequate controls..."
"Doesn't managing to the budget, as the SBR does, focus the FIAR effort mostly on funding in and funding obligated and expended?"
"I'm specifically interested in what you call the SFIS, which has been in the architecture for several years and is essential for achieving audit readiness."