Pentagon comptroller Robert Hale
From a Tuesday hearing before the Senate Appropriations Committee’s defense subcommittee:
Senator Dick Durbin, D-Ill.: Do you dispute this finding that the average contract employee costs two to three times as much as the average DOD civilian employee?
Robert Hale, Pentagon comptroller: No, it sounds about right…I’m hiring a lot of contractors because they know how to do audits. We don’t yet.