Financial Management & Budget

Dayton Aerospace brings a distinct perspective on earned value—a combination of program managers, earned value experts, and engineers who believe performance management is a foundational element in successful program execution. Our multi-functional experts can ensure you meet government earned value guidelines and achieve program performance goals and objectives. We frequently assist government and industry teams in establishing, refining, and implementing a new EVM system to include developing the system description document; preparing teams for EVM system audits to include integrated baseline reviews (IBRs); increasing team efficiency through the use of EVM performance management tools; and providing onsite facilitation between government and industry clients to create an effective EVM environment in order to solve difficult program challenges.

Increasingly, the most important consideration at defense program milestone reviews is related to cost and affordability. Dayton Aerospace has a long and successful track record of conducting studies, reviews, and analyses resulting in strategies, processes, and initiatives to reduce the cost of programs in all phases of the life cycle for both government and industry clients. We’ve helped multiple major programs, including C-17, F-22, and V-22, attack their cost issues. Whether your team is preparing for a milestone review, getting control of spiraling costs, developing long-term strategies, or submitting a winning proposal, we have the right experts to help with a variety of tasks and answer important affordability questions.

Our experts have deep, practical skills in performing cost and price analysis for the government and prime contractors. We’ve supported government agencies in evaluating complex cost proposals based on certified cost and pricing data. We’ve also helped prime contractors develop and support their cost proposals submitted to the government and prepared cost/price analysis reports to document reasonableness of their subcontractors’ proposals. Dayton Aerospace supports or provides a wide range of analytical methods including: cost modeling, contract pricing statistics, regression analysis, competitive pricing reasonableness, cost realism, cost estimating relationships, improvement curves, cost risk and equitable adjustment pricing.

Resource estimation is a critical function in all programs, operations, and studies. We have the right experience at levels required to provide valuable cost estimating support. Cost estimates may be required for a variety of purposes including capital budgeting, projecting program changes or market factors impacts, preparing cost proposals, understanding life cycle costs and conducting cost-benefit and trade-off analyses. Building estimates that are comprehensive, well-documented, accurate and credible requires careful planning and a disciplined process which is tailored to the estimate’s intended use.