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Bowhead Automates their Government Property Management to achieve Audit Readiness

Bowhead Automates their Government Property Management to achieve Audit Readiness

Bowhead Case Study The Bowhead family of companies offers a wide range of services encompassing information technology, advanced engineering, manufacturing and program management. Bowhead’s 3,000+ employees deliver exceptional support to defense and civilian government agencies across the United States and worldwide. Bowhead holds more than 300 contracts and undergoes continuous audits by the Defense Contracting [...]

By Dave Gardner|2024-01-09T16:24:36-04:00December 28th, 2023|Blog|Comments Off

New Updated DCMA Survival Guide

New Updated DCMA Survival Guide

In 2017, we wrote the original DCMA Survival Guide to provide the GovCon community support in navigating the challenging DCMA Audit landscape. Government contractors need to stay compliant and up to date with the detailed requirements and obligations of their contracts. Specifically, all employees need to have a thorough understanding of their contract obligations as well [...]

By Peter Collins|2023-11-14T12:33:12-04:00February 21st, 2023|Blog|Comments Off

2021 Defense Audit Results

2021 Defense Audit Results

The Pentagon completed its fourth annual Department-wide, full financial Audit this month. And for the fourth year in a row, the Defense Department was unable to achieve a clean audit opinion. Michael McCord, undersecretary of Defense (comptroller) and chief financial officer stated that “we do not yet have a clean opinion and we have a [...]

By Peter Collins|2022-02-22T18:08:11-04:00November 19th, 2021|Blog|Comments Off

Government Property in the Possession of Contractors including Government Furnished Property and Contractor Acquired Property

Government Property in the Possession of Contractors including Government Furnished Property and Contractor Acquired Property

The Inspector General’s Office released a report last month entitled: Understanding the results of the Audit of the DoD FY 2020 Financial Statements. The Office of the Inspector General has been performing the DoD department-wide, full financial statement Audit for the past 3 years. In the 2018, 2019, and now again in the 2020 Audit [...]

By Peter Collins|2021-03-19T13:16:27-04:00March 19th, 2021|Blog|Comments Off

2019 Guide to Audit Readiness

2019 Guide to Audit Readiness

Announcing the new 2019 Guide to Audit Readiness. The 2019 Guide to Audit Readiness will teach you what you need know to be able to manage your government property and military shipments in order to stay compliant to your government contract obligations. Get your Free Copy Now In this Guide you will learn: What Audit Readiness [...]

By Dave Gardner|2019-02-28T15:15:50-04:00February 28th, 2019|Blog|Comments Off

A2B Tracking to present at the NPMA Fall Seminar

A2B Tracking to present at the NPMA Fall Seminar

NPMA Fall Education Seminar Pat Jacklets, A2B Tracking’s Asset Management Expert, and Sharrieff Christmas, Sales Manager, will be featured speakers at the 2018 NPMA Fall Education Seminar. The NPMA (National Property Management Association) will host their Fall Conference on November 1-2 in San Diego, California. The NPMA Fall Education Seminar (FES) is designed to bring [...]

By Peter Collins|2018-10-19T15:31:14-04:00October 19th, 2018|Blog, Industry News|Comments Off

Audit Readiness and the Impact of the FIAR Mandate

Audit Readiness and the Impact of the FIAR Mandate

Last month at the NPMA NES conference in Chicago, Pat Jacklets and I presented on the topic of Audit Readiness. It was such a popular session that the NPMA asked us to offer it again as an online webinar. Please sign up here for this free one hour session on Audit Readiness and the Impact [...]

By Peter Collins|2018-09-04T19:47:10-04:00September 4th, 2018|Blog|Comments Off

The Complete Guide to DOD Audit Readiness

The Complete Guide to DOD Audit Readiness

The US Congress together with the current administration are holding the Department of Defense (DoD) accountable to achieve and sustain Full Audit Readiness of DoD property, plant, equipment, operating materiel and supplies starting FY2018. This audit readiness initiative is more than an investigation into accounting and record keeping. It’s a department-wide endeavor, which began in [...]

By Peter Collins|2021-04-29T15:02:35-04:00April 17th, 2018|Blog|Comments Off

Make it Easy on DCMA with Correct iRAPT and IUID Reporting Protocol

Make it Easy on DCMA with Correct iRAPT and IUID Reporting Protocol

When DCMA audits your contract, one of their goals is to verify that all assets and shipments are properly registered with iRAPT. DCMA auditors will look specifically to ensure each IUID number is registered under the correct domain (i.e., acquisition, custody, legacy), and that this information is being submitted accurately to iRAPT [...]

By Peter Collins|2021-04-23T10:15:54-04:00September 7th, 2016|Blog|Comments Off

DCMA Audit: What Does the DCMA Auditor Look For?

DCMA Audit: What Does the DCMA Auditor Look For?

For anyone involved with DCMA and contracting with the Department of Defense, one of the big concerns is compliance to federal regulations. The government is notorious for having strict guidelines that must be followed in order to continue to earn their business. In order to keep contractors in line with these regulations, the DoD [...]

By Peter Collins|2021-04-29T14:59:01-04:00July 19th, 2016|Blog|Comments Off