My hope is is that we will have another little followup on this in September or October on how it is going.

Well it is only cost-effective if you can have real savings or you can have real accuracy, which you do not have now.

Leadership is the key and the whole goal is to better financially manage so that you do not waste money.

$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.

Effort sometimes is not enough. You have to apply maybe a different approach and a different technique.

We are going to make that perfectly clear.

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.

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.

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.

Well, every other agency uses Treasury.

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.