Stephenson Replaced As DCAA Director

By Robert Brodsky

The embattled director of the Defense Contract Audit Agency has been replaced and reassigned to the Pentagon comptroller's office.

April Stephenson, who has come under fire the last 15 months after two damaging reports by the Government Accountability Office questioned the quality of audit reports and the management of DCAA offices, will be reassigned Monday to the executive staff of Under Secretary of Defense and Chief Financial Officer Robert Hale as of Nov. 9.

The director's chair will now be filled by Patrick Fitzgerald, the auditor general of the Army.

More to come later.