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34th Annual DoD Cost Analysis Presentations
Held:  January 30 - February 2, 2001

Theme:  Resource Issues for the Coming Decade

Theme-Related Track

Track Chair – Krystyna Kolesar, OSD

 CERs for Base Operations Services:                                                                                   

Steve Bagby, CEAC

Cost & Efficiency Measurement for Military Hospitals:                                                       

Dr. Matt Goldberg and Dr. Ted Jaditz, CAN

 Measuring the Cost of Unused Capacity in the Defense Aircraft Industry:                      

Dr. Tom Frazier, IDA

Acquisition Reform Experience w/new DoD 5000 Model:                                                 

Mr. Ric Sylvester, OSD(AT&L)

 Three Themes in Current Shipyard Overhead Costs                                                            

Dr. Brian Flynn, NCCA

Aviation Spare Part Inventory - Funding for Readiness:                                                      

CDR Jim Workman, USN, OSD/PA&E

 

 

Advanced Track

Track Chair – Steve Miller, OSD

 

Generalized Activity Networks for Cost Estimation and Program Management              

Dr. Dave Lee, LMI

Predicting R&D Program Budgets when Considering Funding Curtailment                    

CAPT Paul Porter, USAF, AFIT

Avionics Cost Effectiveness Analysis                                                            

 Mr. John Horak, Technomics

The Minimum Unbiased Percentage Error (MUPE) Method in CER Development         

Dr. Shu-Ping Hu, Tecolote

NAVAIR Cost Growth Study - A Cohorted Study of the Effects of Era, Size, Acquisition Phase, Phase Correlation, and Cost Drivers           

Mr. Dick Coleman, Ms. Cari L. Pullen, Ms. Jessica R. Summerville,  Ms. Megan E. Dameron (TASC), and Ms. Donna Snead (NAVAIR)

New Approaches to Phasing of Funding                                                     

Dr. William H. Jarvis, OSD/PA&E

Estimating C-17 O&S Cost:  Development of a System Dynamics Model                        

CAPT Chris Purvis, USAF, AFIT

Affordability Decisions Using Genetic Algorithms                                         

Dr. Jim Byrnes, Dr. Denis M. Coffey, Mr. Joseph J. Kranz & Dr. Gerald Ostheimer, Prometheus Inc.

Intermediate Track

Track Chair – LTC Steve Galing, USA, OSD

 

Cost Analysis Implications of Evolutionary Acquisition & Spiral Development                

Major Robert Flowe, USAF, OSD/PA&E

Air Force Total Ownership Cost Management Information System                                    

Mr Belford, AFCCA

An Overview of Government and Industry Initiatives to Reduce Costs in Military Aircraft Design and Production  

Mr. Jack Graser, Mr. Obaid Younossi, Dr. Cynthia Cook, & Dr. Mark A. Lorell RAND

Evaluating Overhead Savings in Source Selections    

Captain Bill Ward, AFIT  

Contract Cost Data Reporting (CCDR)                                                                                 

LCOL Dave Robinson, USMC, OSD/PA&E

Space System Cost Variance Overview                         

Mr. Don MacKenzie, and Ms. Bonnie Addison, Wyle Labs

 Costing Qualitative Discriminators Used in Best Value Source Selections                        

Lieutenant  Jason Borchers, USAF, AFIT

Plenary Session I

 

Defense Resource Issues – A Tour of the Analytic Horizon

 

A Panel Led by General Larry Welch (ret.), IDA

 

Panel Members: Mr. Robert J. Murray, CNA

 

                           Mr. Bill Tuttle, LMI

 

                           Dr. David S.C. Chu, RAND

 

 

 

Plenary Session II

 

Defense Top Line: How Much is Enough?

 

A Panel Led by Dr. David McNicol, OSD CAIG

 

Panel Members:    Ms. Lane Pierrot, CBO

 

                             Dr. Cindy Williams, MIT

 

                             Mr. Carl Conetta, The Commonwealth Institute

 

 

 

Featured Session I

 

Panel – Update on DoD Weapon System Cost Estimating Capabilities

 

A Panel Led by Dr. Steven Balut, IDA

 

Panel Members:       Dr. Matthew Schaffer, OSD/PA&E

 

                                Mrs. Lynn Davis, AFCAA & Part II

 

                                Mr. John Duval, CEAC

 

                                Mr. Leonard Cheshire, NCCA

 

 

 

Featured Session II

 

International Panel – International Perspectives on Resource Issues

 

A Panel Led by Dr. Matthew Schaffer, OSD/PA&E

 

Panel Members: Mr. Brian Tanner, United Kingdom Ministry of Defense

 

                           Lt. Col. Thierry Guiet, French DGA

 

                           Marcel Smit, The Netherlands TNO-FEL

 

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