The Project on Government Oversight has sent a letter to the Senate Armed Services and Homeland Security and Government Reform Committees asking them to keep up pressure on the administration and the Defense Contract Audit Agency to follow through with making substantive management changes to improve audit quality.
POGO, citing concerns brought to its attention by DCAA auditors, asked the committees to keep up oversight, saying it fears reforms have been "only superficial responses to political pressure."
It alerted the committees that a group of DCAA auditors formed to evaluate the internal promotion process was disbanded, and expressed concerns that a DCAA audit quality hotline may have become "a tool for retaliation."
POGO wants DCAA established as part of an independent federal contract audit agency, and wrote that it worries "that these problems are indicative of a systemic strategy for reform that seeks to decrease congressional pressure rather than to institute meaningful reform."
Last year GAO reported on DCAA audit quality problems throughout the country including the compromise of auditor independence, insufficient audit testing, and inadequate planning and supervision, stemming from a "production-oriented management environment."
