The whole idea of an audit is to have an audit to know what your holes are and your financial weaknesses and your management weaknesses, so you can change things.

We do not want to be the problem. We want to be part of the solution.

when I see almost $600 million last year in savings that would not have occurred had they not done that, to me that is real change.

We are going to make that perfectly clear.

Hagel ought to have on his desk every day every major acquisition program, once a week at least, where they are on their timelines, where they are on their budgets, where they are in terms of changes of requirements.

In a large business with big acquisitions, the CEO is getting a report every week, whether it is on time or on budget.

$7 billion is a lot of money, and I can tell you I am skeptical at every hearing on the improper payments for the DOD simply because of the massive size of it.

I think Mike McCord will do that. I would want somebody who knows the Defense financial management and Federal financial management.

If it flubs, everything flubs. And so, that ought to be right on the top target list.

You have reported that without fully deployed ERPs, the DOD will be unable to produce reliable financial data and auditable financial statements without resorting to heroic efforts such as data calls or manual workarounds.

We could not do continuous process improvement unless we could pass an audit.