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Program & Government Finance
Rates, pricing, budgeting, forecasting, funding, EAC / ETC, invoicing, DCAA / incurred-cost support, and recurring financial control.
Explore finance →Allegheny Program Advisory
Government program finance from SBIR through scale.
Hands-on finance, contract administration, and operating support from Phase I through Phase III and follow-on awards.
Based in Southwestern Pennsylvania.
Serving government contractors at home and nationwide.
Prime + SBIRLarge-prime discipline. Small-business execution.
$200K–$100MProposal, pricing, program & execution exposure
Phase I–IIISBIR lifecycle and follow-on experience
Multi-AgencyMDA · Navy · Army · NASA · DLA · DARPA
How we help
Finance at the core. Contract administration and operations when needed.
Contract Administration
Award setup, modifications, funding status, CDRLs, options, PIEE / WAWF coordination, subcontract administration, and closeout support.
Explore contract administration →Operations & Scale-Up
Manufacturing scale-up, supply chain, capacity planning, supplier development, production readiness, and operating improvement through Two-Seven Partners.
Explore operations →Experienced. Hands-on. Local.
A hands-on partner for government innovators.
Allegheny Program Advisory combines structured large-prime discipline with hands-on small-business execution. We understand the finance and operating challenges that emerge as technical teams move from early research awards into larger programs, follow-on work, and scale.
Based in Southwestern Pennsylvania, we can work down the road with local companies and remotely with government contractors nationwide.
Meet the team →Program & Government Finance
Compliance when you need it. Optimization when it matters.
A lean engineering startup may simply want the government-finance requirements handled correctly and on time. A growing contractor may need maintained forecasts, rate management, program EACs, and decision support. Allegheny tailors the level of support to the company—not the other way around.
Compliance / Required
Take the recurring government-finance burden off the technical team.
For small teams that primarily need the required work handled accurately, consistently, and on time.
Optimization / Management
Build the financial visibility to manage programs, people, rates, and growth.
For companies that need more than compliance and want a maintained financial operating picture.
01
Capture Economics & Award Readiness
We connect capture assumptions to execution realities so management understands staffing, cost, cash, rate, and margin implications before commitments are made.
- Capture financial strategy
- Cost & pricing support
- Labor and staffing models
- Indirect-rate assumptions
- Fee / margin analysis
- Cost realism
- Funding profiles
- Subcontractor economics
02
Program Execution
Once awarded, programs require disciplined financial execution against funding, staffing, schedule, cost, and margin expectations.
- Contract budgets
- Funding & ceiling tracking
- Labor burn-rate monitoring
- Headcount forecasts
- Material / subcontract spend
- Program profitability
- Government invoicing & reconciliation
- PIEE / WAWF
- DFAS payment tracking
- CDRL financial inputs
- ETC / EAC
03
Compliance & Government Finance
Recurring financial administration that keeps programs billable, supportable, and aligned with contract requirements.
- Indirect-rate structure design & restructuring
- Pool / base architecture and allocation logic
- Provisional billing-rate development & monitoring
- Indirect-rate over / under recovery
- Final indirect cost rate proposal / ICE support
- DCAA audit readiness & response support
- DCMA coordination
- PIEE / WAWF
- DFAS payment-status support
- Timekeeping & labor charging
- QuickBooks-based government accounting
04
Optimization & Company Planning
When management wants deeper visibility, we connect contract-level performance, headcount, rates, cash, and backlog into one maintained company-wide financial view.
- Annual budgeting
- Monthly reforecasting
- Cash planning
- Headcount planning
- Indirect-rate forecasting
- Backlog analysis
- Award timing scenarios
- Downside / restructuring models
Experience
Large-prime discipline. Small-business execution.
Our experience spans structured large-prime environments and hands-on small-business execution—combining formal pricing and program discipline with the practical realities of operating a lean government contractor.
Large-contractor discipline
Large-prime experience across Textron Inc.
Experience supporting capture, pricing, and program execution across Bell, Textron Systems, and Cessna, with efforts ranging from approximately $200K to $100M.
- ProPricer and advanced Excel modeling
- Structured cost-volume development
- Labor, subcontract, material & indirect-rate modeling
- Cost realism and program economics
- Capture-to-execution handoff
Small-business execution
Hands-on SBIR finance leadership.
Six years inside a growing SBIR contractor, progressing from analyst-level responsibilities to ownership of the end-to-end government-finance function—including a major Phase III ramp, rapid hiring and infrastructure growth, and later restructuring when funding and program timing shifted.
- Phase I, II, III and follow-on efforts
- CPFF, FFP, budgeting, forecasting and government invoicing
- ICE models, CDRLs, rates and DCAA communication
- PIEE / WAWF, DCMA and DFAS workflows
- Headcount, spend, cash and program profitability
- Growth, restructuring and award-delay scenarios
Who you'll work with
Senior experience. Direct access.
Allegheny Program Advisory is intentionally lean. Clients work directly with experienced practitioners rather than handing work through layers of a larger consulting team.
Founder & Principal
Brett Myers
Program Finance · Government Contracting · SBIR
Brett’s experience spans large-prime government contracting and hands-on finance leadership inside a small SBIR business. He has worked across the full SBIR lifecycle—from early research awards through Phase III and follow-on efforts—with direct responsibility for indirect rates, budgeting and forecasting, program finance, PIEE / WAWF invoicing, ICE models, CDRLs, DCAA coordination, headcount planning, and company-level financial management. His large-prime background includes capture, pricing, and program exposure across Textron Inc. businesses including Bell, Textron Systems, and Cessna.
Strategic Operations Partner
Robert Myers
Managing Partner · Two-Seven Partners
Robert brings four decades of global manufacturing, supply-chain, and operations leadership, including C-suite supply-chain responsibility, Vice President of Manufacturing experience, private-equity-backed transformation through public-market transition, brownfield start-ups, vertically integrated manufacturing, and Lean / Six Sigma leadership.
SBIR lifecycle
Every phase changes the business.
The finance requirement evolves as the award base grows. The work can start with basic compliance and billing, then expand into rates, program controls, hiring, cash, and operating scale.
Phase I
Accounting basics, labor charging, billing discipline, award economics, and the first indirect-rate assumptions.
Phase II
Rate management, forecasts, funding, headcount, subcontract spend, program EACs, and recurring management visibility.
Phase III
Hiring, infrastructure, cash, operating leverage, funding timing, production economics, and much larger execution decisions.
Follow-on & Production
Repeatable controls, finance infrastructure, capacity, supplier readiness, and a company-wide operating picture.
Decision support
See the impact before the decision.
Government programs create second-order effects across rates, cash, staffing, funding and margin. The point of the reporting is not the report—it is making those effects visible early.
What happens to overhead if the award slips 90 days?
How much funded runway remains at the current burn?
Can we hire against Phase III before funding is firm?
Where will provisional and actual rates land by year-end?
What does the current EAC say about program margin?
How does the hiring plan change cash and indirect recovery?
Our approach
Use what works. Own what is missing.
We start with the systems, reports, and people already in place. Some clients need only a few recurring finance or compliance tasks maintained each month. Others need a broader program-finance function. We do not replace processes that already work.
We can own
- Recurring and annual government-finance cadence
- Rates, billing, and recovery schedules
- DCAA / incurred-cost support
- Program forecast maintenance
- Contract-finance administration
We can add
- Management forecasting
- Rate and margin optimization
- EAC / ETC and program controls
- Headcount and cash planning
- Executive reporting and scenario analysis
Contract Administration
Extend the bench without building a contracts department.
Program finance remains the core of Allegheny Program Advisory. When clients also need day-to-day contract administration, we can extend the team with experienced government-contract professionals on a fractional or project basis.
01
Contract Setup & Files
Award intake, contract records, key terms, deliverables, and administrative controls.
02
Funding & Modifications
Funding increments, ceiling changes, modifications, and status tracking.
03
CDRL & Deliverable Tracking
Submission calendars, responsibility tracking, and recurring deliverable administration.
04
Options & Period of Performance
Option dates, POP milestones, extensions, and upcoming contract actions.
05
PIEE / WAWF Coordination
Invoice workflow coordination, acceptance status, and alignment with program finance.
06
Subcontract Administration
Subcontract tracking, administrative flowdowns, changes, and supporting documentation.
07
Contract Status Reporting
Concise management visibility into actions, funding, deliverables, and administrative risk.
08
Closeout Support
Administrative closeout coordination, final documentation, and outstanding-action tracking.
Contract administration support is operational in nature. Legal interpretation, claims, REAs, protests, and other matters requiring counsel are referred to qualified government-contract attorneys as appropriate.
Operations partner
When growth moves beyond finance.
When growth extends from program execution into manufacturing and supply chain, Allegheny Program Advisory works alongside Two-Seven Partners to bring senior operational capability, deep manufacturing relationships, and global operating experience into the same scale-up conversation.
Six Sigma Champion Black BeltLean ManufacturingPrivate Equity → Public MarketsBrownfield Start-UpVertically Integrated Operations
Two-Seven Partners
Operational capability for the move from R&D to production.
Led by Robert Myers, Two-Seven Partners extends Allegheny’s finance and program capability into manufacturing scale-up, supply-chain strategy, capacity, supplier development, and operational improvement.
Supply-Chain StrategyManufacturing Scale-UpCapacity PlanningSupplier DevelopmentOperational ImprovementProduction Readiness
Ways to engage
Start with what you actually need.
Recurring work is scoped to the client. A company that needs only compliance and rate support should not pay for a broad management package it does not need; broader finance and scale-up support can be added as the business changes.
Focused
Compliance & Finance Maintenance
Rates, billing, timekeeping, incurred-cost support, funding and recurring contract-finance cadence.
Core
Program Finance & Optimization
Compliance plus EAC / ETC, forecasts, headcount, cash, rate recovery and management reporting.
Expanded
Scale-Up & Special Projects
Proposal pricing, financial infrastructure, contract administration, manufacturing scale-up, restructuring and other defined needs.
You build the technology.
We build the financial control and operating discipline to scale it.
Whether the need is straightforward compliance maintenance or a broader program-finance function, Allegheny Program Advisory can take ownership of the recurring financial work around government-funded programs and scale the support as the company grows.
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