The problem, in numbers
Prepared for the Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace resubmission. All figures are from public government sources and are cited below.
The remediation backlog is large, and it is not shrinking
The Department's financial statement audit produces Notices of Findings and Recommendations. Each NFR stays open until the underlying weakness is resolved and that resolution is supported with evidence. The most recent published figures show the scale of that work:
| Measure | Figure | Period |
|---|---|---|
| NFRs open at the start of the year | 3,322 | End of FY2023 |
| NFRs closed during the year | 955 | FY2024 |
| NFRs issued or reissued during the year | 2,387 | FY2024 |
Source: GAO-25-108191, DOD Financial Management: Accelerated Timelines Needed to Address Long-standing Issues and Fraud Risk.
We do not net these figures against one another. Reissued NFRs may overlap with the open population, and GAO does not publish the breakdown needed to compute a precise year-end balance. Stating a net number we cannot substantiate would be the same error this product is built to prevent.
The remediation rate is going backwards
The clearest single measure is the share of open findings remediated in a year:
| Fiscal year | NFR remediation rate |
|---|---|
| 2019 | 27% |
| 2023 | 35% |
| 2024 | 29% |
GAO states that the rate "had increased from 27 percent in 2019 to 35 percent in
- However, in fiscal year 2024, DOD's NFR remediation rate decreased to 29
percent."
Roughly seven of every ten open findings were not remediated in FY2024, and the trend reversed after four years of improvement.
The audit outcome has not changed
For FY2025 the DoD Office of Inspector General issued a disclaimer of opinion and reported 26 material weaknesses and 2 significant deficiencies in internal control over financial reporting.
Source: DODIG-2026-032, Independent Auditor's Reports on the DoD FY 2025 Financial Statements, issued December 2025.
Why this is a workflow problem
The figures above describe volume and pace. They do not, by themselves, prove that assembly of remediation evidence is the constraint. What they establish is that thousands of findings are in flight at any time, that most are not closed in a given year, and that the rate of closure recently declined rather than improved.
Each of those findings requires the same underlying work: connect the finding to the control it implicates, plan and perform a corrective action, gather evidence that the action occurred, demonstrate the fix held over time, and assemble all of it into something a reviewer can evaluate. Today that assembly is performed largely by hand across spreadsheets, email, and shared drives.
Tracepoint addresses that assembly step. It does not claim to change audit outcomes, and it does not claim to close findings. It makes the evidence behind a closure reviewable, attributable, and portable.
What a deployment measures
The first phase of a Tracepoint deployment establishes the operational baseline for the reporting entity: labor hours per finding, review cycles per closure, rework, and aging. Those figures are produced on the organization's own register, in its own review chain. The product's measured performance on the shipping code is in the accompanying performance report.
Prepared by A&R Strategic Solutions. Figures verified against the cited public sources as of August 2026.