Friday, August 14, 2009
In a move described as “unprecedented,” the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) has decided to shift the leadership of its western regional office—which has been plagued by internal complaints—to Texas, sparking even more complaints by agency auditors. The Western Region office, located in Mountain View, CA, has been the source of multiple harassment and intimidation reports by DCAA employees, but instead of filling the vacant branch manager position, agency director April Stephenson decided to have leaders in the Central Region office, located in Irving, TX, oversee auditing operations on the West Coast.
One senior auditor in the California office told Government Executive that the decision represented “a waste of taxpayer money to fly these Central Region managers and personnel ... back and forth from the West Coast when we have competent applicants for the job in the Bay Area that were not selected.”
Government Executive also obtained a memo from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) indicating its latest investigation of the DCAA showed the agency continues to do a poor job of auditing defense contracts. A similar finding was released last year by the GAO, which resulted in Congress conducting hearings and ordering an overhaul of DCAA auditing performance standards.
-Noel Brinkerhoff
Defense Audit Agency Shifts Control of California Field Office to Central Region (by Robert Brodsky, Government Executive)
More Problems Reported with Defense Contract Audit Agency (by Robert Brodsky, Government Executive)
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