Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) Surveillance Program – Phase II and Food Safety and Inspection Service Controls Over BSE Sampling, Specified Risk Materials, and Advanced Meat Recovery Products - Phase III

My statement today is primarily based on our prior work related to the department’s efforts to achieve audit readiness, implement modernized business systems and a business enterprise architecture, and reengineer its business processes. In addition, we are providing information on DOD’s updated plans for achieving auditability presented at a February 2012 briefing. Specifically, we are presenting a comparison of key milestones in the February 2012 DOD briefing 5 that outlined its plans to accelerate the timeframe to achieve SBR auditability with DOD’s May 2011 Financial Improvement and Audit Readiness (FIAR) plan. We also conducted interviews with DOD officials about the February 2012...