Departments annual budget of 600 billion. And why he thinks its important to conduct and audit. This is an hour and 45 minutes. O order. We welcome the committee will come to order. The Committee Welcomes mr. David norquist, undersecretary of defense and comptroller as our witness today. The topic is the audit of the department of defense which by law begins this fiscal year. I would say its not by accident the committee would start our year on this topic. Requiring the Department Conduct an audit has been a bipartisan requirement of this committee for some time. From 1990 it required all federal departments conduct a financial audit and partly with frustration of the lack of that in 2010 they required the audits be ready by 2017. They put close scrutiny on the departments efforts and issued a number of recommendations to allow us to arrive at this point. The 2014 required an audit be required of the departments fy 18 Financial Statements the results of list are to be delivered next ye