Pentagon leads federal agencies in failure to adequately disclose expenditures
The Defense Department has not devoted the resources to adequately account for its spending as required by the bipartisan 2014 Digital Accountability and Transparency Act (DATA Act). The Trump administration has made compliance a priority, but the Pentagon’s inspector general said, “Specifically, for the second quarter of fiscal 2017, the [Defense] comptroller did not certify and submit complete award data, timely award data, accurate financial and award data, and quality financial and award data for