CPI AEROSTRUCTURES INC

Management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting. Internal control over financial reporting, as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f), is a process designed by, or under the supervision of, our principal executive and principal financial officers and effected by our board of directors, management and other personnel, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with U.S. GAAP and includes those policies and procedures that:

Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.

Management conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting for the twelve months ended December 31, 2023 based on criteria established inInternal Control- Integrated Framework(2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (“COSO”). In connection with this evaluation, management identified a deficiency that constituted a material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2023, pertaining to income tax accounting. For more information on this deficiency, see Item 9A. Controls and Procedures, included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K. Based on management’s evaluation of internal control over financial reporting for the twelve months ended December 31, 2023, and as of June 30, 2024, our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of June 30, 2024 due to the aforementioned material weakness pertaining to income tax accounting.

A material weakness is a deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting, such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of the Company’s annual or interim consolidated financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis.

The Company has begun to develop new controls designed to remediate the aforementioned 2023 material weakness pertaining to income tax accounting, which the Company intends to implement during 2024.

Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

During the quarter ended June 30, 2024, we implemented the following changes in our internal control over financial reporting that materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting as follows: (a) we replaced the Company’s outside tax accounting and tax return preparer with a new firm (the “Tax Accounting Firm”); (b) we retained the Tax Accounting Firm (i) to prepare the Company’s income tax accounting and disclosures for the quarter ended June 30, 2024 and (ii) to review the income tax accounting and disclosures prepared by the predecessor firm for the quarter ended March 31, 2024 prior to the filing of the Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2024; (c) we updated our financial risk assessment to reflect tax accounting as a high risk area, and (d) we adopted a tax accounting review checklist provided by our Sarbanes-Oxley consulting firm for use by CPI’s finance management in reviewing the quarterly and annual work of the Tax Accounting Firm, beginning with the tax accounting for the quarter ended June 30, 2024.