Financial & Cost Management
Effective management of enterprise financial activities is a fundamental characteristic of best-in-class organizations and an integral part of resource acquisition, knowing and using program costs to inform decision making, and transparent reporting.
CALIBRE's Offerings
CALIBRE develops practical, timely, best-value solutions in support of our customers’ financial and cost management requirements. We deliver high-quality budget formulation and execution support; capital investment planning and cost management, including cost benefit analyses and cost-related training services; facility capital repair and replacement budgeting; performance management and budget integration; resource cost model development and analysis; and working capital fund strategy, services, and training.
Budget Formulation and Execution Support
CALIBRE assists customers in developing and formulating defendable programs and budgets to achieve organizational goals and mission requirements. We effectively link processes and systems to the customer’s strategic plans and develop a continuous feedback loop so performance and cost information can inform decisions regarding planning, budgeting, and execution. CALIBRE also provides information systems and services to monitor funds expenditure and program performance, and we offer analytical support to managers to make timely adjustments during the execution year.
Capital Investment Planning
CALIBRE assists agencies in developing their funding and planning budgets for their programs, analyzing their investments for values across their portfolio initiatives, and tracking both tangible and intangible returns over time with a particular emphasis on information technology (IT) investments. We can assist with any or all of the
select / control / evaluate phases of the IT Investment Management process. Additionally, CALIBRE provides expertise in Clinger-Cohen Act compliance and compliance with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended (29 U.S.C. 794d).
Cost Management, Cost Benefit Analyses, and Training
We assist our customers to link their costs with the work performed and with their products. Our support also extends to incorporating cost determination with process and productivity improvements, such as those resulting from the application of Lean Six Sigma methodologies. Our use of industry-leading approaches gives our customers highly actionable insights about operational costs and candidate areas for management improvement. We also work with customers to develop cost analysis programs of instruction that cut through the theory by imparting useful insights and methods that facilitate performing cost benefit analyses.
Facility Capital Repair and Replacement Budgeting
CALIBRE offers services for several budget-level estimating methodologies: the physical plant’s initial cost or replacement value; formulas grounded in other quantifiable attributes of the plant; lifecycle analysis of each facility’s systems and components; assessment of the facility’s current or projected physical condition; and determination of the programming and budgeting requirement with processes that are repeatable and auditable. Our professional staff has helped public agencies and institutions improve their facility management programs with our expert maintenance management services.
Performance Management and Budget Integration
CALIBRE offers our customers performance management services that include performance measurement systems and the integration of performance information into budget reviews, actions, and decisions. Experienced CALIBRE professionals provide training and technical assistance in developing performance metrics that are aligned with organizational goals and objectives. We also assist in developing supporting systems that analyze, report, and display performance information.
Personnel and Health Analytics
CALIBRE assists our customers in developing efficient, well-planned, integrated, and proactive fiscal policy solutions and alternatives in personnel and health environments through proven analytic, econometric, and operations research/systems analysis, and statistical methods. Our capabilities in resource management, IT development, decision analysis, cost optimization, simulation and modeling, forecasting, cost-benefit analysis, and integrated performance-based resource assessments provide our customers knowledge-based decision support and improved financial outcomes. CALIBRE's professionals have assisted offices and agencies such as the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness and the Office of Wounded Warrior Care and Transition Policy to determine and develop integrated resource solutions, policy feasibility, alternative analysis, long-term actuarial costs, financial management, and needs assessment. In an environment of rising healthcare expenditures, health program affordability issues, and a need to assess best practices / policy adjustments, CALIBRE (a premier cost optimization and systems analysis company) can provide support that will provide fiscally realistic solutions.
Resource and Cost Model Development and Analysis
CALIBRE develops and uses models to support customers who need to assess program resources and costs. Our modeling capabilities range from single systems to fleets, individuals to entire workforces, and small units or organizations to larger organizations or force structures. Knowledge of physical and performance parameters, operating concepts, organizational designs, usage parameters, and costs allows us to project total resource and cost impacts which are essential modeling capabilities for these transformational times.
Working Capital Fund Strategy, Services, and Training
CALIBRE provides focused consulting services to our customers needing to meet the management challenges associated with operating in a dynamic, $79 billion Defense Working Capital Fund. Our services include advanced analysis, training, and business process consulting. Our training encompasses supply, depot maintenance, ammunition logistics, budget preparation, execution strategies, and financial management. We have over 15 years of experience in advanced analysis in the working capital fund supply enterprise and over nine years of experience training DoD personnel to manage working capital funds with an enterprise focus. Our customers include General Officers and Senior Executives, mid-level working capital fund professionals, industrial operation commanders of depots, and interns that represent organizations as diverse as arsenals and ammunition plants at the local level, to policy staffs at lifecycle management commands and Air Logistics Centers, Army and Air Force Materiel Commands, Army and Air Force Secretariats, and the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
