DoD fraud detection efforts at ‘starting line,’ watchdog says

DoD fraud detection efforts at ‘starting line,’ watchdog says

Despite spending over $1 trillion annually, the Defense Department has barely begun integrating data to detect fraud — and calling it the starting line is a “charitable way to describe it,” according to a government watchdog. “They’re just not there. The data is massive. They are difficult to work with. We spent months cleaning up the data. One of my colleagues did that as his full time job for a long period of time before we could even analyze …