Pursuit's Take
The Department of Defense’s (DoD) Office of Inspector General (OIG) reviewed the DoD’s purchase card and travel card for waste, fraud and abuse. OIG determined DoD provided incomplete and inaccurate information. According to the report, the Military Services sent 1,043 misuse transactions, but only reported 47 to Office of Management and Budget. They also did not report over 51,000 delinquencies in purchase card payments. Defense Procurement and Acquisition Policy (DPAP) was unable to “identify patterns of improper transactions, opportunities to improve the program’s efficiencies, or areas where program reviewers should focus their emphasis until DPAP corrects these problems.” Over the two years OIG reviewed, DoD spent $10 billion on their purchase card program.
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