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HOME	32nd Annual DoD Cost Analysis Presentations Held: February 2-5, 1999 Theme: Estimating Development Costs THEME Cost Growth and Program Stability - Dr. Jerome Pannullo (OSD/PA&E) Improving (or Establishing) Methods for Estimating Development Costs: A Case Study of GPS - Mr. Gerry Belcher (LMI) Global Positioning System (GPS) Fundamentals - Mr. Steven Miller (OSD CAIG) Influencing O&S Costs in the Development Phase - Mr. John Wallace (LMI) Cost Estimating Issues for Advanced Systems - Ms Arlene Moore (NASA) and Mr. Dan Ferens (Air Force Research Laboratories) Improving Software Development Cost Estimation - Dr. Thomas Frazier (IDA) and Ms. Ellen Coakley (Air Force Electronic Systems Command) and Mr. John Hicks (Presentation) (Tecolote Research, Inc.) INTERMEDIATE TRAINING An Update on the Status of DoD's Capabilities to Estimate the Costs of Weapons Systems - A Panel led by Dr. Steven Balut (IDA) Essentials of Production Cost Estimation - Mr. Gary Bliss (OSD/PA&E) The Unique Challenges of Estimating Major Automated Information Systems (AIS's): An Air Force Perspective - Captain David Marzo, USAF (AFCAA) Status Report on the Contractor Cost Data Reporting (CCDR) System - Mr. Thomas Coonce (OSD/PA&E) An Introduction to the Visibility and Management of Operating and Support Cost (VAMOSC) System - Ms. Krystyna Kolesar (OSD/PA&E) (Air Force Total Ownership Cost) Essentials of O&S Cost Estimation - Mr. Donald Tison (OSD/PA&E) and Mr. Brian Octeau (NCCA) (Presentation) An Introduction to Integrated Circuit Technology and its Costing - Mr. Mike Janiga (Mitre) Incentive Models for Cost Progress - Dr. David Lee (LMI) ADVANCED TRAINING Normalizing Cost Data for use in Model Development - Mr. James Schmitz and Mr. Nicholas Lozzi (Tecolote Research, Los Angeles) An Operations and Support Model for Ships - Mr. Paul Hardin (NCCA) Using Performance Indices to Evaluate the Estimate at Completion (-Presentation) - Dr. David Christensen (Univ. of Southern Utah) Analyzing Development Programs' Expenditures with the Norden-Rayleigh Model - Dr. David Lee (LMI) Approximating the Probability Distribution of Total System Cost - Mr. Paul Garvey (MITRE) Why Cost Analysts should use Pearson Correlation, rather than Rank Correlation - Mr. Paul Garvey (MITRE) Why Correlation Matters in Cost Estimating - Dr. Stephen Book (Aerospace) A Method for Simulating WBS Cost Distributions and their Correlations - Dr. Matthew Goldberg and Dr. Philip Lurie (IDA) CASE STUDY A cradle-to-grave history of cost estimation of the LPD-17 ship construction program(LPD-17 Presentation).
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Cost Growth and Program Stability - Dr. Jerome Pannullo (OSD/PA&E)

Improving (or Establishing) Methods for Estimating Development Costs: A Case Study of GPS - Mr. Gerry Belcher (LMI)

Global Positioning System (GPS) Fundamentals - Mr. Steven Miller (OSD CAIG)

Influencing O&S Costs in the Development Phase - Mr. John Wallace (LMI)

Cost Estimating Issues for Advanced Systems - Ms Arlene Moore (NASA) and Mr. Dan Ferens (Air Force Research Laboratories)

Improving Software Development Cost Estimation - Dr. Thomas Frazier (IDA) and Ms. Ellen Coakley (Air Force Electronic Systems Command) and Mr. John Hicks (Presentation) (Tecolote Research, Inc.)

An Update on the Status of DoD's Capabilities to Estimate the Costs of Weapons Systems - A Panel led by Dr. Steven Balut (IDA)

Essentials of Production Cost Estimation - Mr. Gary Bliss (OSD/PA&E)

The Unique Challenges of Estimating Major Automated Information Systems (AIS's): An Air Force Perspective - Captain David Marzo, USAF (AFCAA)

Status Report on the Contractor Cost Data Reporting (CCDR) System - Mr. Thomas Coonce (OSD/PA&E)

An Introduction to the Visibility and Management of Operating and Support Cost (VAMOSC) System - Ms. Krystyna Kolesar (OSD/PA&E) (Air Force Total Ownership Cost)

Essentials of O&S Cost Estimation - Mr. Donald Tison (OSD/PA&E) and Mr. Brian Octeau (NCCA) (Presentation)

An Introduction to Integrated Circuit Technology and its Costing - Mr. Mike Janiga (Mitre)

Incentive Models for Cost Progress - Dr. David Lee (LMI)

Normalizing Cost Data for use in Model Development - Mr. James Schmitz and Mr. Nicholas Lozzi (Tecolote Research, Los Angeles)

An Operations and Support Model for Ships - Mr. Paul Hardin (NCCA)

Using Performance Indices to Evaluate the Estimate at Completion (-Presentation) - Dr. David Christensen (Univ. of Southern Utah)

Analyzing Development Programs' Expenditures with the Norden-Rayleigh Model - Dr. David Lee (LMI)

Approximating the Probability Distribution of Total System Cost - Mr. Paul Garvey (MITRE)

Why Cost Analysts should use Pearson Correlation, rather than Rank Correlation - Mr. Paul Garvey (MITRE)

Why Correlation Matters in Cost Estimating - Dr. Stephen Book (Aerospace)

A Method for Simulating WBS Cost Distributions and their Correlations - Dr. Matthew Goldberg and Dr. Philip Lurie (IDA)