Industries Served

Aerospace & Defense

Defense contractors, aerospace manufacturers, and government service providers operate within some of the most regulated environments in the world. We help these organizations configure Workday to meet the demands of cleared workforces, program-based operations, compliance oversight, and mission-critical reporting.

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Cleared Workforce Configuration Experience
DCAA Labor Compliance Frameworks
Multi-Entity Org Design & Integration
100% Workday Certified Consultants

The Challenge

A Platform Built for Complexity. A Partner Who Understands It.

Defense and aerospace organizations carry a unique operational footprint: cleared personnel with active certification and training requirements, contract-driven labor categories, program-based cost structures, multi-entity organizational hierarchies, and government reporting obligations that touch every layer of the workforce. Standard Workday configurations often fall short without a partner who understands how these requirements translate to system design.

Our consultants have worked inside these environments. We understand the relationship between program demand, labor utilization, security clearance tracking, and financial performance, and we build Workday configurations that reflect those connections rather than working around them.

What We Bring to This Industry

  • Cleared personnel and certification tracking frameworks
  • Contract and program-based labor category configuration
  • Direct and indirect labor allocation and reporting
  • Multi-entity org structures for complex legal hierarchies
  • Government-funded program workforce planning
  • Security clearance and training compliance workflows
  • M&A organizational integration experience
  • Project staffing and resource demand planning

Workforce Management

Managing the People Behind the Mission

Defense organizations manage workforces that few other industries can parallel in complexity. We configure Workday to give program leaders, HR, and finance a unified view of the people and costs driving every engagement.

Clearance & Certification Tracking

Configure worker profiles to capture and track security clearances, investigation dates, adjudication status, and certification expiration so compliance is always current and auditable.

Labor Category & Contract Staffing

Map your workforce to contract labor categories, charge codes, and program codes. Track headcount and cost by contract, customer, and program to satisfy both internal and external reporting requirements.

Workforce Readiness Planning

Connect skills inventories, training completion, certification status, and program demand to identify readiness gaps, succession risks, and future hiring requirements before they become operational problems.

Direct & Indirect Labor Tracking

Establish frameworks for allocating labor to direct program costs versus indirect overhead, supporting both internal financial visibility and government contract compliance reporting.

Training & Compliance Workflows

Automate required training assignments, track completion rates, enforce compliance deadlines, and generate audit-ready reports across clearance renewals, safety certifications, and regulatory requirements.

Multi-Entity Org Design

Support complex legal entity structures across subsidiaries, joint ventures, government-facing operating companies, and commercial divisions with consolidated and segmented reporting.

Workday Financials Suite

Where Workforce Data Meets Program Cost

Workday Financials connects program cost accounting, procurement, and financial reporting to the same environment as workforce data. Program managers, contracts teams, and finance share a unified view of project spend, indirect cost rates, and compliance documentation without reconciling data across separate systems.

Program & Contract Cost Accounting

Accumulate labor and non-labor costs by program, contract line, and project phase. Support cost-reimbursable and fixed-price contract structures with budget-to-actual tracking aligned to FAR and DFARS cost accounting requirements.

Indirect Cost Rate Management

Configure overhead, G&A, and fringe benefit pools within Workday to support incurred cost submissions, forward pricing rate proposals, and period-end indirect rate reporting without manual spreadsheet reconciliation.

Procurement & Subcontract Management

Manage vendor contracts, subcontractor purchase orders, and supplier spend through Workday's source-to-pay module with audit-ready documentation supporting government contract compliance requirements.

Multi-Entity Financial Consolidation

Consolidate financial data across subsidiaries, joint ventures, and operating entities with automated intercompany eliminations and segment reporting that gives finance leadership a clean view of total enterprise performance.

Leadership Visibility

From Program Demand to Workforce Decision

When workforce data, program financials, and compliance obligations live in separate systems, leaders are always operating with incomplete information. Workday connects these layers so that program leaders, HR, and finance share a single source of truth for every staffing, cost, and compliance decision.

We configure reporting and analytics frameworks that surface resource shortages before contracts are at risk, flag clearance expirations before they create operational gaps, and align workforce planning to contract pipeline so that new program wins do not outpace hiring capacity.

  • Program-level headcount and cost dashboards
  • Clearance expiration and renewal pipeline visibility
  • Skills gap and succession risk reporting
  • Contract staffing demand versus current supply
  • Hiring forecast aligned to program award timelines

Common Scenarios We Support

  • Configuring Workday for DCAA and government contract labor compliance
  • Standing up a new program or contract workforce from scratch
  • Integrating a newly acquired defense business into an existing Workday tenant
  • Migrating off a legacy HRIS with program-specific labor data
  • Building workforce readiness dashboards for program executives
  • Restructuring org hierarchies following an M&A event
  • Deploying Workday Payroll with direct and indirect labor allocation

How We Engage

Every Service Line. One Industry Focus.

Our four service lines each bring distinct value to defense and aerospace organizations. They are designed to work together or independently, depending on where you are in your Workday journey.

Workday Deployments

Full-lifecycle implementations scoped for defense-specific workforce structures, clearance tracking, contract labor categories, and multi-entity financials. Fixed-bid, fixed-time with dedicated architects.

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Workday Managed Services

Ongoing environment support with dedicated architects who understand your configuration, your contracts, and your compliance obligations. Proactive, not reactive.

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Staff Augmentation

Certified Workday specialists placed inside your team for backfill, program surge, or long-term embedded support. Priced at 15% or more below market, with access to our Area Leads by domain.

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Advisory & Transformation

Independent advisory for M&A integrations, program health assessments, architecture reviews, and governance design. Client-side alignment with no delivery conflict.

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Ready to Build a Workday Environment That Matches Your Mission?

Tell us about your program, your workforce, and your compliance environment. We will show you how we can help.

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