Our financial management services include:

• Translating credible cost estimates into sound POM profiles, fiscal year budget forecasts, spend plans and obligation and expenditure (O&E) forecasts.
• Managing a coordinated process that tracks program resources from the cost estimate to the POM submission, to future year funding profiles, spend plans, responses to HHQ inquiries and cut drills, and formal reporting (i.e., MAR, SAR, and DAES).
• Supporting the Program Objective Memorandum (POM) and Budget Estimate Submission (BES) submissions for major programs.
• Employing a wide range of Government accounting/ financial systems and interfaces (i.e., CCaR, CRIS, ABSS, WAWF, DTS, MOCAS, GAFS-R, SPOMIS, DWAS, DIFMS, NIMMS, and MFCS) to execute budgets; track funding; and report on commitment, obligation and expenditure (COE) status.
• Developing structured tools and techniques for reconciling and managing large, complex DoD contracts.
• Using thorough project descriptions and credible, hard hitting impacts to prevent potential budget cuts and obtain advocacy and funding for unfunded requirement submissions.

Tecolote’s experience demonstrates the benefits of a single contractor working closely with the client to perform multiple financial management functions: reduced management costs; comprehensive corporate memory; higher fidelity budget submittals; more substantive justification and impact statements; more control over financial resources; and greater success for our clients as they compete for scarce resources.

• Our experienced staff is composed of former Air Force/Government Financial Analysts/Comptrollers who provide effective financial training with extensive knowledge of government financial processes and access to a vast network of financial personnel.
• The rigor we apply to our cost estimates pays off for our clients when we update and verify financial inputs to the POM, BES and President's Budget (PB).
• We track and report the status of the PB submission throughout the Congressional Enactment process to ensure that our clients are fully informed on the status of their budget requests. Our experience in preparing Budget Fact Papers and reclamas helps mitigate proposed funding reductions.
• Our tools and processes deliver quick, reliable quantitative impacts to congressional "marks" against the PB and provide defensible what-if responses to congressional committees and higher headquarters.
• Tecolote's hands-on experience with Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) databases, along with our expert use of the Contract Obligation and Expenditure Tracking System (COETS) or Comprehensive Cost and Requirement System (CCaRS) ensures accurate funds management and focused actions to correct erroneous data.
• Our strong analytical abilities, proven processes and well-documented paper trails result in positive reviews and successful GAO, DCAA and other program audits.

Tecolote delivers credible analysis and reliable management services on more than $50 billion in annual budgets overseen by DoD and federal government clients.

Tecolote provides financial analysis and/or management support to numerous DoD Acquisition Category I (ACAT I) programs:

Flash Cash:

• The DFAS Director of Accounting recognized Tecolote for our work in developing and fielding the "Flash Cash" Treasury reporting tool.
• With Flash Cash, the DoD was able to accomplish, for the first time ever, an accurate cash reconciliation with the Treasury Department.

Electronic Invoice/Receipts Initiatives:

• Extensive involvement in defining requirements, testing and implementing Wide Area Workflow (WAWF). WAWF enables DoD vendors and Government personnel to submit invoices and process receipt data to DFAS electronically.
• Extensive involvement in defining requirements, testing and implementing Web Invoicing System (WInS). WInS enables DoD vendors to submit invoices electronically to DFAS.
• Electronic invoice/receipt processing improves auditability, eliminates mail delays, reduces processing errors, reduces interest penalties and lowers the cost of services to DFAS for processing.

HQ AFSPC/DR:

• Tecolote’s forecasted budget trends, along with its understanding of the Budget Execution Review (BER) and fiscal year-end closeout processes, allowed our customer to secure funding to satisfy a persistent System Engineering and Integration shortfall.
• Our awareness of the “bona fide need” criteria/regulations, our ability to craft sound competitive justification statements and our utilization of the timetable for the fiscal year closeout process all factored into successfully acquiring these funds.

Satellite and Launch Control Systems Program Office (SMC/RN):

HQ USAF Director for Space Acquisition recognized Tecolote in numerous commendation letters (“…recognized expert on the Air Force Satellite Control Network (AFSCN) budget…directly responsible for the successful planning, programming and budgeting of more than $3.6B for modernization of the Ranges”).

Space Radar (SR) Integrated Program Office (IPO):

We successfully secured Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) approval of a program baseline extension of more than $3 billion during the POM cycle in a fiscally constrained 2010-11 environment.

Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle Program (EELV) SPO (SMC/EV):

• Tecolote developed an automated interface to ensure consistency between our cost estimate and CARS. We created a simulated SAR model to compare our cost estimate to the APB.
• Our EELV acquisition reports were recognized by HQ USAF and OSD as a model for other acquisition programs.

Logistics Information Systems Program Office (ESC/IL):

The HQ USAF Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Installations and Logistics recognized their final Tecolote-developed budget as "the most comprehensive information technology Program Objective Memorandum ever submitted."

DoD-Wide Contract Reconciliation and Management Support:

• Tecolote has reconciled more than 375 contracts and helped mitigate more than $1 billion in potential losses.
• Tecolote is managing more than 600 contracts valued at more than $40 billion.
• Our successful contract reconciliation results pay for our contract services many times over.

Contract Obligation and Expenditure Tracking System (COETS):

• COETS is a Tecolote-developed application that maintains an internal database baseline of contract activity.
• COETS tracks and resolves all ULO and NULO issues, reconciles contractor reports and easily performs contract closeouts.
• Tecolote was part of the Air Force Team that received the Brent Scowcroft Air Force Association Award for improving the efficiency of the contractor payment process at the Ogden ALC.
• DFAS has determined that COETS "meets the current DFAS Responsible Contract Reconciliation Agent (RCRA) Guidelines."

Comprehensive Cost and Requirement System (CCaRS):

Tecolote is an expert user of the CCaRS – an application developed by one of Tecolote’s strategic partners (IDS) to support nearly all facets of budget planning, development and execution.