As defense contractors face heightened audit scrutiny, accelerating reporting timelines, and increasingly complex cost accounting and pricing requirements, the pressure to modernize legacy processes has never been greater. AI and automation are no longer experimental—they are becoming essential tools for strengthening internal controls, improving data integrity, and reducing the manual burden on compliance and pricing teams.

This workshop brings together insights on the newest technologies, real world use cases, and practical implementation strategies to help leaders build audit-ready, scalable, and defensible systems that can withstand DCAA, DCMA, and customer oversight.

Key topics will include:

• Navigating increasing scrutiny, shrinking timelines, and rising data integrity expectations
• How tools can be deployed responsibly, transparently, and in alignment with government audit standards.
• How AI and automation are changing the DCAA audit environment — including shifts in sampling, data testing expectations, and digital audit readiness.
• Modernizing incurred cost submissions (ICS) through automated data validation, anomaly detection, indirect rate modeling, and audit ready documentation generation.
• Using AI enabled tools to strengthen cost and pricing compliance for proposals, factfinding, cost realism, and FAR compliant estimating system controls.
• Automation for commercial item determinations — leveraging structured data, market research automation, and defensible documentation frameworks that withstand audit scrutiny.
• End-to-end contract flow down automation to ensure accurate clause mapping, risk identification, and traceability across procurement, subcontracting, and program execution.
• Data governance and audit defensibility — ensuring Ai generated outputs meet evidentiary standards, maintain traceability, and align with DCAA and DCMA expectations.
• Integrating compliance, pricing, IT, and internal audit to build a unified modernization roadmap that reduces manual effort without increasing risk. 

PLUS! Benefit from three real world use cases on measurable ROI, cycle times and more:

• Commercial Items
• Streamlining Incurred Cost Submissions
• Automating End-to-End Contract Flow Down