News - Defence
18 news items on Defence
Billions placed in revolving funds but little accountability
The Dutch government is increasingly using revolving funds to achieve social goals, for example to encourage domestic energy ...
Biggest defence procurement project ever is a lesson for the future
Netherlands Court of Audit bundles 20 years of auditing the JSF Lessons can be learnt from the Dutch government’s involvement in ...
Stricter checks of JSF invoices
Audit leads to supplementary agreement with the US The invoices the Netherlands receives from the United States for the ...
UN mission to Mali: shortcomings in training, materiel and maintenance
Mission pressure is a risk to the readiness of the armed forces Lack of equipment, inadequate training, spare parts that don’t ...
Dollar exchange rate risks to procurement of JSF
In a letter to the House of Representatives of 19 January 2016, the Court of Audit considered the risk of the higher euro/dollar ...
Court critical about information on procurement of JSF and transition to JSF
In its letter to the Dutch House of Representatives on 10 February, the Netherlands Court of Audit makes a number of critical ...
President Stuiveling calls for greater transparency in NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the dozens of entities that operate within it could improve their public ...
Public accountability for NATO expenditure: small rays of hope but limited transparency
Quarter of IBAN audit opinions for 2013 qualified or adverse Despite the many small steps taken to enhance transparency, public ...
Comments on the Ministry of Defence’s ambitions
In a letter to the House of Representatives of 14 October 2014, the Court of Audit makes a number of comments on the Ministry of ...
Ministry of Defence still has a lot of work to do to benefit from new ICT system
The Dutch Ministry of Defence has been introducing a complex ICT system since 2005 to support and improve its operations. The ...