McCaskill Calls for Answers on Defense Department’s Efforts to Reduce Wasteful Spending on Contracts

Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) is calling for answers from the Department of Defense on its efforts to reduce the agency’s audit backlog. A McCaskill-requested Government Accountability Office (GAO) report recently found that while the Defense Department had made some progress in reducing its backlog of 14,000 audits, it was not on pace to meet its goal of eliminating the backlog by October 2018.