Our flagship asset management platform, UC! Web, was purpose-built to support today’s Government Property Managers to help them achieve sustained audit readiness. The ability to keep track of and account for critical assets and property at all times has become imperative for those doing business with the DoD. Modern Government Property Managers need a robust asset [...]
I just returned from Deltek Insight 2018 in Dallas, Texas. It was an incredible conference bringing together more than 3,000 project professionals to share the latest in technology and best practices. We are very excited about our software integration with Deltek Costpoint and for the opportunity to have been included at Deltek Insight 2018 and [...]
Sharrieff Christmas and I recently held a webinar where we discussed Reporting Assets to the IUID Registry. All too often, people make the mistake of thinking that all they need to do is get an IUID label on their asset and they will be in compliance with MIL-STD-130. Printing and applying the IUID label is [...]
2018 marks the 1st annual department-wide Audit in the history of the Defense Department. Estimates suggest that the DoD is investing approximately $350 Million to perform this audit. Comptroller, Norquist stated that by Spring of 2018, “We will have over 1,200 auditors inspecting the Department of Defense from book to floor and floor to book.” Ensuring [...]
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 [...]
This article was written by A2B Tracking’s President/CEO, Peter Collins. It was published in the December 2017 issue of the NPMA Property Professional magazine. To read the full article and learn about RFID Tracking for Military IT Assets - click here. By Peter Collins In the 21st Century we have seen [...]
One of the challenges facing the Department of Defense this year is the FIAR mandate. The Financial Improvement and Audit-Readiness (FIAR) Plan has evolved and matured over the years; but, the current deadlines and regulations were set by Congress in the National Defense Authorization Act of 2010. The FIAR mandate requires that the DoD needs [...]
Some organizations, when newly awarded a government contract, will attempt to create a customized approach to tracking and managing military compliance using a spreadsheet or rudimentary software— like Microsoft Access. They typically end up meeting only a small fraction of the total military IUID and RFID compliance requirements to asset and shipment [...]
Most organizations, when first awarded a contract with the Department of Defense, are unprepared for the scope and depth of asset tracking and reporting that is required to be able to ship and invoice their items. This is also true for military contracts that require management of government property. Naively, these contractors [...]
Do you want to do business with the Pentagon? If you do, there’s some bad news and some good news. The bad news is that winning a U.S. Department of Defense contract can be very difficult because the Pentagon is a huge bureaucracy and you might need to beat out a lot of competitors. The [...]
