Oversight of Contractor Pension Costs Could Be Improved

Gao ID: NSIAD-86-85 June 23, 1986

GAO assessed the adequacy of the Department of Defense's (DOD) audits of contract pension costs. DOD relies on the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) and the Defense Contract Administration Services (DCAS) to monitor such costs.

GAO found that: (1) while the combined DCAA and DCAS efforts have resulted in adequate audit coverage of defense contractors' pension costs, the agencies have performed independent reviews covering the same contractors without coordinating their efforts; (2) DOD policies require DCAA and DCAS to coordinate their pension audits; (3) during its review, DCAA and DCAS regions were attempting to improve coordination; and (4) DCAA and DCAS need to improve their monitoring of unallowable costs resulting from contractors' delays in funding their pension plans.

Recommendations

Our recommendations from this work are listed below with a Contact for more information. Status will change from "In process" to "Open," "Closed - implemented," or "Closed - not implemented" based on our follow up work.

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