I want to welcome everybody to the events today. How much money for the defense is enough . This began with a call i got from someone i respect who said toyo me simply how do we decide how much money the u. S. Should spend. I have to confess im more i ame comfortable talking about things like Social Security, the opportunity and about the defensee budget. I called my colleague here at brookings and i put the question to him how much should the u. S. Spend on defense and he said funny you asked i just finished an answer to that question so here we are and you can read all 20,000 words on the website but he wont try to read them all today. I want to start with the question i cant answer how much did the u. S. Spend, so can we get the first slide. The short answer is we spend a lot on defense. Theres lots of ways to measure but letsd start with a few basics. This is a pie chart that shows how we spent the federal budget in the last fiscal year about 900 million on defense roughly one out
The committee will come to order. The Committee Welcomes mr. David norquist, the undersecretary of defense, comptroller, and chief Financial Officer as our witness today. The topic is the audit of the department of defense, which by law begins this fiscal year. And i would just say its not by accident that the committee will start our year on this topic. Requiring that the Department Conduct an audit has been a bipartisan priority of this committee for some time. The chief Financial Officer act of 1990 required all federal departments conduct an annual financial audit and partly out of frustration with a lack of progress toward that end at the department of defense, the 2010 required the Financial Statements of the department be ready for audit by september 30, 2017. This committees panel on defense Financial Management and reform put close scrutiny on the departments efforts and issued a number of recommendations that have enabled us to arrive at this point. The 2014 ndea required a f
Defense department testified on the management of the 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 Stat
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
Hold two hearings that focus on the two major pillars of our agenda. Tomorrow well hear from the Service Chiefs on repairing and rebuilding our military. Today, however, well concentrate on the other pillar, which is defense reform. Weve done a lot of reform over the past two years. That includes acquisition reform, a new military retirement system, major changes in military health care, commissary reform, a rewrite of the uniform code of military justice as well as significant organizational reform. While a lot has been done, however, a lot more needs to be done. The world around us is simply moving too fast for us to sit still and assume that the organizations and processes of the past will suffice for today and especially for tomorrow. Yes, we all have an obligation to see taxpayer dollars are spent as efficiently and effectively as possible, especially in fulfilling the first job of the federal government which is to defend the country. But we all know from the news and from our In