Comments by "Geoffrey Lyons" (@granatmof) on "Jon Stewart Questions Defense Deputy Secretary on Budget" video.

  1. The DOD Audit failures is partly the result of the size of the organisation. One department gets sent say a chopper and it gets tracked by the sending department one way and tracked by the receiving department another way. It's not malfeasance, or corruptions, but it is inefficiency, which is a form of waste. These billing and reporting discrepancies add up significantly. And the numerous different tracking systems aren't communicating correctly to each other. Now there does exist the possibility of say payments that don't belong, and things like missing stockpiles, but these audits are done in order to actually find those inconsistencies and investigate them and track things down. The fact is the interviewee deals with these specific terms all day everyday, and has read the detailed reports on the audits, and in some sense she wanted to get beyond the syntactically differences between her and John into specifics of real issues. Quibbling over the definition of audits is boring and meaningless to her and instead of trying to hurriedly skip the question she should have resigned herself to explaining once again with detailed examples. Implementing yet a neither inventory or tracing software isn't going to fix the problem overnight. When these audits first started happening the discrepancies added up to like $2T like 10 years ago, and if it's down like $800B, that's significant progress. And yes those sound like a lot of money but really isn't when you consider the cost of the assets involved. If an F35C (a Navy Plane) lands at an Air Force Base for a joint operation requested by the Air Force. So the Air Force is responsible for a new to them $100M plane. The budget for flight hours for the operation comes from one budget for the Air Force. But the Navy still needs to track operation hours and wear and tear, and sends the recirpt to the air Force who managed to double books the entry but on separate receipts that use different reporting numbers. So now there's like redundant internal billing, within one branch and the other branch is also tracking things so thered now 3 x$100M planes and expenses. I dont like the comments degrading the official because of her gender. Some comments correctly address the issues, but others use code words that denegrate non conforming gender norms. I like her standing up for herself and I like John Stewart going after the answer for questions the audience hasn't been exposed to repeatedly to the point it's intuitive.
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