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Pentagon quietly scaled back audit expectations

By Dan Verton · Tuesday, July 22, 2014 · 7:00 am

A memorandum issued in 2011 by former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta gave the military services until Sept. 30 of this year to get their Statement of Budgetary Resources ready for audit. But the Pentagon quietly changed its game plan and is now working toward a significantly scaled-back set of expectations.

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