ROSE Report: A New Era for Finance and Defense Contracting

Issue 114 - ROSE Report: A New Era for Finance and Defense Contracting

Why Most Financial Systems Fail Leaders

As organizations grow, leaders assume their financial systems will naturally evolve with them. In reality, most companies outgrow their financial infrastructure long before they realize it. The result is a frustrating paradox: the company may be growing, but the financial systems designed to support that growth are actually slowing it down...

The Pentagon's CTO Just Told You Exactly What DoW Wants. Are You Listening?

Emil Michael, Under Secretary of War for Research & Engineering, effectively the Pentagon's CTO, sat down with Chamath, Friedberg, and J-Cal and laid out, in plain language, exactly where the Department of War is headed on procurement, contracting, technology, and the defense industrial base. This wasn't a sanitized press briefing. This was a senior Pentagon official telling the investment and tech world: here's what we need, here's how we're buying it, and here's who we want to buy it from...
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Is Your Financial Infrastructure Ready for What Comes Next?

By Ted Rose • April 1, 2026

Most growing organizations don't discover gaps in their financial systems until something forces the issue; an audit, a capital raise, a key person leaving, or a contract they're not equipped to manage. The Financial System Readiness Review exists to surface those gaps before they become expensive. In this video, Ted Rose walks through what the FSRR actually evaluates, why looking at your accounting software alone isn't enough, and how the three-step process produces a roadmap that tells you exactly what to fix, in what order, and why it matters for where your organization is headed.