30-Day POM Alignment Audit
A signed contract does not mean secured funding. It means funding until the cliff. Most defense contractors do not know how deep into the Future Years Defense Program their revenue actually runs, or how exposed they are when the POM tightens. The 30-Day Audit answers that question with an executive-level review of your program against the federal resource cycle.
The problem
Every defense program lives inside a five-year window called the FYDP. What matters is not whether your program is on it, but how many of those five years are actually funded, and where the drop-off is.
Many contractors discover, too late, that only the current execution year is fully protected. The out-years are placeholders, and placeholders get cut.
If your capability sits on the Unfunded Priorities List rather than in the base budget, you are one Continuing Resolution or one hearing away from being cut.
A Program Element that does not match the Major Defense Enterprise portfolio, or manpower documents that do not reflect what your contract actually requires, is a program that will not survive the next markup.
What you receive
Each engagement is scoped to a single contract or program and delivered in 30 days.
A written mapping of your program against the Program Objective Memorandum, showing where the resource commitments actually sit and where they do not.
A structured assessment of how much of your revenue is currently sitting in unfunded-priority territory, with the specific risk points identified.
Force-structure and manpower documentation review, ensuring your contract's manning assumptions match what the government has actually documented.
The move-list.
The output you can act on.
A prioritized set of moves you can make in the next 90 days to strengthen your position before the next budget cycle. Written for executive decision-makers.
How the 30 days run
No open-ended discovery. No scope creep. A defined four-phase cadence.
Establish the current state of your program, contract, and documentation. Signed NDA and kick-off inside week one.
Map your program to the Program Objective Memorandum. Identify alignment and misalignment against MDEP and FYDP.
Assess unfunded-priority exposure. Identify the specific vulnerability points and comparable historical outcomes.
Deliver a prioritized 90-day action plan. Executive-level briefing with the founder. Optional 30-day follow-up.
A look inside
A representative, anonymized excerpt from the executive briefing a client receives at the end of the 30 days. Names, program elements, and dollar figures shown are illustrative.
30-Day POM Alignment Audit · Executive Findings
Contract revenue in FY26 is documented in the current-year execution line, PE 0603XXXF, Budget Activity 4. Out-year alignment weakens: FY27 shows a documented cut of approximately 22 percent, and FY28-FY30 are placeholders inside the sponsor Program Element. The program is materially exposed on the standard FYDP profile.
Roughly 34 percent of projected FY27 revenue currently sits on the sponsor Combatant Command's Unfunded Requirements list rather than in the base POM submission. Historical comparable-program data suggests a base-vs-UFR probability of about 4-in-10 for this specific portfolio in a Continuing Resolution environment.
The Table of Distribution and Allowances (TDA) currently reflects 87 percent of the manning the contract statement of work assumes. Two civilian billets and one military billet are missing from the source document. Recommend a documentation fix inside the current POM cycle, before the next markup, to avoid a mid-execution manpower gap.
Who this is for
Whether the contract runs one, three, or five years, the funding beneath it operates on the FYDP cycle. That is the cycle we work in.
USSOCOM, INDOPACOM, EUCOM, NORTHCOM, or a service major command. This is where the founder's direct experience sits.
The SP Group provides strategic advisory only. If you need registered lobbying representation, this is not the right partner.
The 90-day roadmap is only useful to companies with the decision-making authority to execute it. If you cannot move on the recommendations, the audit will not pay for itself.
Next step
Book a 60-minute consultation with the founder. If the audit is the right fit, we can scope and kick off inside the following week.