Both special audits of the agency are ongoing, Bridget Ann Serchak, a spokesperson for the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General (DODIG), told PCWorld this week.

Serchak declined to comment on when the audits would be completed. "We never speculate on completion dates for projects," she said.

The DODIG's office announced the first in a series of planned audits of DARPA in August 2011. The first audit will "determine the adequacy of DARPA's selection, award and administration of contracts and grants awarded in FY 2020 and FY 2011 for research and development projects," the DODIG's office wrote in a letter to Danielle Brian, executive director of the (POGO), a federal watchdog group.

It was POGO that waved a red flag over contract procedures at DARPA in a to DODIG Gordon S. Heddell. In the letter, dated May 9, 2011, POGO's Brian wrote that her organization was concerned about possible conflicts of interest between Dugan and RedX Defense, a bomb detection firm that Dugan founded and where she retains a financial connection.