Armed Forces Comptroller

Alexandria, Va., May 13, 2024 – The American Society of Military Comptrollers (ASMC) is proud to announce the appointment of Todd M. Tolbert, MBA, CAE as its new Chief Operating Officer, effective immediately. Tolbert brings a wealth of association experience and leadership to ASMC, with a proven track record in technology innovation and operational transformation in associations and non-profit organizations.

On this month’s episode of The Business of Defense Rich Brady speaks with Sumner Lee, CEO and Founder of Fuse Integration about bringing data to tactical edge for warfighters in flight. To understand Fuse Integration, a company whose products give warfighters in flight a data-driven tactical advantage, you simply need to get the backstory on its founder, Sumner Lee. “I started out my life in the Navy as a knuckle-dragging CH-46 pilot, flying an age-old helicopter.

On this month’s episode of The Business of Defense Rich Brady speaks with Hailey Le, CEO and Founder of Redwood Strategy Group about her long view on growth and expanding her firm’s services. A redwood tree can live upward of 2,000 years. Will Redwood Strategy Group still be providing financial and IT services to federal agencies in 4024? Maybe, maybe not. But the small, woman-owned business does take a long view on growth and expanding how it serves mainly defense and homeland security agencies.

ASMC will launch its updated CDFM and CDFM-A exams next month on May 29, 2024, the opening day of its Professional Development Institute (PDI). This is exciting! ASMC’s certification team, CDFM certificants, and subject matter experts have been working diligently to evolve these exams in recent months. We know you’ve got questions – luckily, we’ve got answers… How long will I be able to take the old exams?

ASMC CEO Rich Brady sees the true value Taylor Swift brings to everything she touches as a value creator.

On this month’s episode of The Business of Defense Rich Brady speaks with Leigh Ann Hope, CEO and Founder of FTSFederal, Inc. about her early days of federal contracting. Pay tuition? What does that have to do with thriving as a government contractor and, more specifically, how to succeed as a small GovCon on Defense Department programs? Everything, said FTS Federal’s Leigh Ann Hope.

The following article was provided by Decision Lens, PPBE panel and registration sponsor at ASMC’s Program / Budget Summit 2024. On January 18th, members of the PPBE Reform Commission presented at the American Society of Military Comptroller’s Program and Budget Summit in advance of their final report being published on March 6.

Featuring Eulica Kimber, Director of Audit Readiness for Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology).

On January 1, 2024, ITV aired a gripping four-part drama chronicling the U.K. Post Office scandal, a nearly three-decades-long saga involving the wrongful conviction of nearly 900 postal workers for theft, fraud, and false accounting. Unlike typical accounting scandals driven by human greed or malpractice, this debacle pinned the blame squarely on the accounting system itself.

On this month’s episode of The Business of Defense Rich Brady speaks with Brian Stafford president and CEO of Diligent, about how they grew a risk management SaaS platform from boardroom governance beginnings. It all began as way to ensure the safety of information — often detailed internal financial records — being shared between companies and the members of their boards of directors.