Area of Interest for Business Intelligence Process Mining for Audit Acceleration for Office of the Under Secretary of War - Comptroller

The Office of the Undersecretary of War – Comptroller (OUSW-C), Office of the Deputy Chief Financial Officer (DCFO) is tasked with ensuring Department of War (DoW) leaders have access to high quality and timely information for decision-making through a business framework that simplifies processes, standardizes systems and data, and promotes financial policies and internal controls.

The DCFO is responsible for oversight for the DoW’s Consolidated Financial Statement Audit with an upcoming deadline for an unmodified opinion, remediation, standardizing business processes, and ensuring data integrity across all DoW components to achieve a clean financial audit opinion. The DoW’s Fourth Estate is made up of the DoW’s entities outsides of the military branches (Army, Navy, Air Force) that provide enterprise-wide support like logistics, healthcare, and acquisitions.

Defense Agencies Initiative (DAI) is an Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) suite that is predominantly used in the Fourth Estate agencies, but not limited to only DAI. DAI standardizes core financial business processes across participating Defense Agencies, consolidating disparate practices into a common operating model. By providing an integrated financial management solution and shared services, DAI improves transparency, audit traceability, and decision support.

The program’s mission directly supports warfighter readiness by enabling accurate funds control, obligation tracking, and financial reporting at scale. DAI’s portal-centric approach (CAC-restricted) facilitates communication, offerings, and onboarding guidance for new agencies.

The DoW seeks commercial solutions for capabilities for audit acceleration capabilities that includes business process intelligence and data mining, posting logic transparency, process mapping across ERP environments, and improved usability for finance users and auditors. DCFO is looking for seeks innovative, commercial approaches a COT based platform that leverages Process Query Language (PQL) to build a process digital twin. DCFO seeks to use an independent and agnostic platform to perform this effort.

Purpose-built AI and process intelligence are required to automate detection of posting logic anomalies, validate process conformance, and surface root causes in real time—dramatically shrinking cycle times and defect rates. Key mission outcomes include:

(a) faster discovery of control breaks and data quality issues;

(b) improved posting logic governance and automated guardrails;

(c) end-to-end visibility of P2P, O2C, A2R, and B2R processes; and (d) measurable productivity gains for audit teams and finance users. Without an AI-driven, process-centric capability tailored to audit acceleration, the Department risks missing the deadline and sustaining material weaknesses. See the attached Areas of Interest for addtional information. The link for the CSO is provided as well.