April 21, 2021

Professional Support Advisory Board Advocates for Administrative Professionals

Fort Belvoir — DCAA’s Professional Support Advisory Board (PSAB) represents DCAA’s more than 200 professional support staff. The Board is established to assess and analyze potential career development avenues, submit work process improvements and modifications, submit proposals for change, and address training needs for the professional support workforce.Once a

April 12, 2021

Ms. Fodje Selected for Defense Senior Leader Development Program

Fort Belvoir, Va. — Ms. Mercy Fodje, Customer Relations Branch Chief, Information Technology Division, has been selected to participate in DoD’s Defense Senior Leader Development Program (DSLDP). The two-year program consists of attendance of a senior service college and participation of leadership seminars. DSLDP develops senior civilian leaders with the enterprise

March 31, 2021

Voices of DCAA: Women Leaders – Be Yourself

Fort Belvoir, Va. — Editor’s note: This is the final article in the Women’s History Month series featuring some of DCAA’s women leaders’ perspectives on leadership.DCAA’s Joni Youngberg and René Morgan are both Deputy Directors for a DCAA subordinate organization but had different paths to leadership. Yet as they rose through the ranks, they both concluded that they

March 29, 2021

Mr. Robert Landry Inducted into Senior Executive Service

Fort Belvoir, Va. — Mr. Robert J. Landry was inducted into the Senior Executive Service and assumed duties as the Director for the General Dynamics Raytheon Technologies Corporate Audit Directorate (CAD) on March 15, 2021. Mr. Landry has over 30 years of defense contract audit experience and has held a variety of leadership positions in DCAA including first-line

March 24, 2021

Voices of DCAA: Women Leaders – Leading is both Rewarding and Challenging

Fort Belvoir, Va. — Editor’s note: This article is part of the Women’s History Month series featuring some of DCAA’s women leaders’ perspectives on leadership.Leading and managing people is both rewarding and challenging, however, the rewards far outweigh the challenges therefore one should strive to be the top leader in your functional community.DCAA’s director of

March 23, 2021

DoD Contractor Settles Civil Case for $3.9 million

Fort Belvoir, Va. — COLAS SA Djibouti SARL reached a civil settlement to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by selling substandard concrete used to construct U. S. Navy airfields in the Republic of Djibouti.In addition to the civil settlement, a separate Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) with Colas Djibouti pursuant to which Colas Djibouti

March 18, 2021

Voices of DCAA: Women Leaders - People First

Fort Belvoir, Va. — Editor’s note: This article is part of the Women’s History Month series featuring some of DCAA’s women leaders’ perspectives on leadership.DCAA leaders Jennifer Desautel and Cornesia Green share a similar leadership philosophy; people first. Both have benefited from listening and acting on the advice of their supervisors and mentors. As they were

March 10, 2021

Voices of DCAA: Women Leaders - Perseverance

Fort Belvoir, Va. — Editor’s note: This article is part of the Women’s History Month series featuring some of DCAA’s women leaders’ perspectives on leadership.Jacque Hlavin, Corporate Audit Manager, Northrup Grumman Corporate Audit Directorate, has been in a leadership role for over 20 years. Jacque credits her mother with giving her the determination to keep growing

March 9, 2021

Peer Review Results

DCAA Staff Writer — The Department of Defense Office of Inspector General (DoD OIG) released the report of its Peer Review of the DCAA today, March 9th.  The review resulted in an opinion of “Pass with Deficiencies.”  We appreciate the review performed by the DoD OIG staff and their opinion that we conducted our audits in accordance with professional standards.  While

March 8, 2021

Federal Contractor Agrees to Pay More than $6 million to Settle Overbilling Allegations

Fort Belvoir, Va. —  Virginia-based Information Innovators, Inc. (Triple-I) has agreed to pay the United States $6.05 million to resolve allegations that a predecessor company, Creative Computing Solutions, Inc. (CCSi) violated the False Claims Act by knowingly overbilling the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for work performed by CCSi employees who lacked