Boot Camp Day 1 – Wednesday, July 24, 2013 7:30 Registration Opens & Continental Breakfast 8:30 Co-Chairs’ Opening Remarks Nicholas A. Sanders Senior Manager, Government AccountingRaytheon Space and Airborne Systems (Irvine, CA) Claude Ognibene Pricing ManagerViaSat, Inc. (Carlsbad, CA) 8:45 KEYNOTE ADDRESS AND Q & A - DCAA Speaks on Audit & Policy Priorities, Recent Changes and What They Mean for Contractors Going Forw...

PENTAGON BOOSTS CONTRACT AUDIT FUNDING: DCAA and DCMA Plan to Increase Auditors by 15.6% and 19.5%, Respectively, Over the Next Two Years *WashingtonPost.com, February 2012 With an increased effort to reduce the audit backlog that has grown since 2011, the U.S. Department of Defense is taking proactive, financial steps to improve audit quality and efficiency. According to a Pentagon spokeswoman, DCAA expects to complete $175 billion of incurr...

DCAA is expected to hire 1,000 new auditors by 2015, an increase of 37%. With audits on the rise and government contracts playing an increasingly important role in companies’ revenue, keeping up to date on the latest strategies for preparing audits is essential to extended business growth. With the current Administration cutting back on wasteful government spending and the new DCAA focusing on the quality of their audits,American Confer...