Kenneth D. Harre has more than 30 years of business and litigation consulting and forensic accounting experience in economic damages, construction, and government contracts disputes for Fortune 500 and smaller companies. His industry experience includes defense contracts, construction, electronics, manufacturing, aerospace, shipbuilding, education, environment, technology, services, real estate, health care, ordnance, and distribution industries.

Mr. Harre has assisted counsel for plaintiffs and defendants, company management, and public agency management while functioning in a litigation support or consulting role in dispute-related economic damages, construction, and government contract matters.

Mr. Harre has extensive experience in fact finding, analyzing disparate information, evaluating causal correlation of facts and allegations, quantifying damages, and preparing and refuting claims for complex disputes. The disputes have involved construction contracts, lost profits, government contracts, anti-trust, intellectual property, property damage insurance recovery, distributor terminations, labor law wage compliance, employee wrongful termination claims, breach of contract, royalty payments, environmental clean-up costs, false claims, and Qui Tam allegations and other damages.

Mr. Harre's work has involved Federal, State, County, and City contracts. He has provided consulting and litigation services to counsel and management on Federal Acquisition Regulations Contract Cost Principles and Procedures issues, Truth in Negotiations Act (defective pricing) application to cost and pricing actions, Cost Accounting Standards, claims development and preparation matters, compliance reviews and issues, terminations for convenience and default, investigations involving false claims and Qui Tam allegations, and voluntary disclosure issues.

Before he established Harre Consulting in 1989, Mr. Harre was a partner with the international public accounting firm, Arthur Andersen, where he directed the firm's construction, litigation, and government contract forensic accounting practice in Southern California. He was also a senior member of the firm-wide committee that had responsibility for managing the Construction, Litigation, and Government Contract practices. During his 27 years with Arthur Andersen, Mr. Harre performed audits of companies in the manufacturing, construction, defense contracts, electronics, retail, distribution, service, and health care industries.

Clients included companies that were required to report in accordance with the Securities Exchange Commission requirements. He frequently assisted the audit teams responsible for contract audits when contract technical performance issues that could significantly impact costs were noted or when a client engaged the firm to conduct a purchase investigation of a potential defense contractor acquisition. He assisted the audit team in identifying defense contracts with performance risks, defining a methodology for assessing risk, evaluating the risks, and helping the audit team assess the financial implications of the identified contract risks.

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