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40th Annual DoD Cost Analysis Presentations
Date:  February 13-16, 2007

Theme:  DoDCAS 40th Anniversary Edition

 

TRACK 1:  Then and Now:

 

A Look at Aircraft Costing

Mr. Howard Manetti, Independent Consultant

Admiral Donald L. Pilling, USN (Ret), LMI Government Consulting

Mr. J. Gary Pennett , Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)

 

Earned Value Analysis –  Cost / Schedule Control Systems Criteria vs. Earned Value Management System

Mr. Gary Christle, Independent Consultant

Ms. Deborah A. Tomsic, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology & Logistics)

Mr. David E. Burgess, Naval Air Systems Command

 

DoD Acquisition “Then and Now

Dr. John Christie, LMI Government Consulting

 

Overview of the Defense Acquisition System, The Recent Past, the Present, and the Future

Mr. Skip Hawthorne, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology & Logistics)

 

The Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System

Vice Admiral Stanley Szemborski, USN, Program Analysis & Evaluation, Office of the Secretary of Defense

 

The Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System

Ms. Deborah P. Christie, Consultant

 

History of Service Cost Programs

Colonel John C. “Jack” Graser, USAF (Ret), Former Director, Air Force Cost Analysis Agency

 

The Navy Center for Cost Analysis

Captain Richard Coleman, USN (Ret), Former Director, Naval Center for Cost Analysis

 

History of the Army Cost  Analysis Program

Mr. Robert Young, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army (Cost & Economics)

 

Force Structure Costing

Mr. Paul F. Goree, Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

 

Force Structure Costing

Ms. Krystyna Kolesar, Program Analysis & Evaluation, Office of the Secretary of Defense

 

Submarine Costing

Mr. Irvin M. Chewning , Naval Sea Systems Command

 

The NSSN (Virginia Class) Estimate

Dr. David Nicholls, Independent Consultant

 

TRACK 2   

 

Concept Decision & Evaluation of Alternatives

Mr. James “Raleigh” Durham, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology & Logistics)

Ms. Betsy McChesney, Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

 

Concept Decisionmaking Costing-A CAIG Perspective

Mr. Garry Bliss, Program Analysis & Evaluation, Office of the Secretary of Defense

 

Operations & Maintenance Explained:  A Parametric Approach for Costing Forty Percent of the DoD’s Budget

Mr. Brian Gladstone, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology & Logistics)

 

Cost Realism and Analysis in Today’s Environment& Video

Mr. Richard J. Janda , Lockheed Martin Corporation

 

Governance and Normalized Deviance in Projects: Lessons from Boston’s Big Dig

Dr. Jeffrey K. Pinto, Pennsylvania State University, Erie

 

DoD Energy Security:  Implications for Future Weapon Systems Costs

Mr. Alan R Schaffer, Office of the Director, Defense Research & Engineering

 

Cost Directors’ Perspectives

Moderator:   Dr. Richard P. Burke, Chairman Cost Analysis Improvement Group (CAIG), Office of the Secretary of Defense

Panelists:     Mr. Stephen T. Bagby, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army (Cost & Economics)

          Ms. Wendy P. Kunc, Director, Naval Center for Cost Analysis

          Mr. Richard K. Hartley, Director, Air Force Cost Analysis Agency

 

Part I:  A Study of Contract Changes and Their Impact on Independent Cost Estimates

Mr. Erik Burgess, Burgess Consulting Inc.

 

Part II:  Making Risk Management Tools More Credible – Calibrating the Risk Cube

Mr. Erik Druker, Northrop Grumman Information Technology

 

Recapitalizing Shipbuilding:  Factors Influencing the Shipbuilding Industrial Base

Mr. Christopher Deegan, Naval Sea Systems Command

 

TRACK 3   

 

Software Costing I:  The State of Software Cost Estimation

Mr. Noel Bishop, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army (Cost & Economics)

 

Software Costing II:  Software Cost Estimation

Mr. Lawrence H. Putnam, Jr., Quantitative Software Management, Inc. (QSM)

 

Technology Readiness Levels and Cost Growth

Mr. Paul Francis, U.S. Government Accountability Office

 

Joint Rapid Acquisition – History and Update

Dr. Robert Buhrkuhl, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology & Logistics)

 

Operations and Support Costing I:  Using AFTOC (Air Force Total Ownership Cost) to Support Decision Making

          Air Force Cost and Performance (AFCAP) Tool

          The Cost of the Air Force (COAF) Tool

MAJCOM Cost Per Flying Hour Variance Analysis

Mr. Tom Lies and Mr. John Wallace, Air Force Cost Analysis Agency

 

Operations and Support Costing II:  Naval Aviation Operations and Support (O&S) Costing

Mr. Timothy E. Conley, Naval Air Systems Command

 

Estimating O&S Costs for Pre-Milestone A Manned Aircraft

Captain Eric Hawkes, Air Force Cost Analysis Agency

 

Capabilities-Based Costing:  Approaches to Pre-Milestone-A Cost Estimating

Ms. Marti A. Roper, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army  (Cost & Economics)

 

Government-Industry Space Program Cost Analysis Working Group Interim Report

Mr. J.P. Stevens, Aerospace Industries Association

Mr. Richard Hartley, Air Force Cost Analysis Agency

Mr. Steven Miller, Program Analysis & Evaluation, Office of the Secretary of Defense

 

Cost Analysis Using EVMS Data:  EVMS at NAVAIR

Ms. Brenda Bizier, Mr. Christopher Mushrush, and Mr. John Scaparro, Naval Air Systems Command

 

Risk Analysis:  Allocating “Risk Dollars” Back to Individual Cost Elements

Dr. Stephen A. Book, MCR, LLC

 

The Multicollinearity Problem:  Coping with the Persistent Beast

Mr. Kevin Cincotta and Dr. David Lee, LMI Government Consulting

 

Acquisition Costing: UAV Payload Costing

Mr. John Horak, Technomics, Inc.

 

Turbofan Engine Operating and Support (O&S) Cost-Estimating Relationships

Mr. Greg Hildebrandt, RAND Corporation

 

TRACK 4

 

The History and Future of Cost Risk Analysis and the Air Force Cost Risk Handbook

Mr. Joseph Puckett, Air Force Electronic Systems Center

Mr. John Sandberg and Mr. Alfred Smith, Tecolote Research Incorporated

 

Defense Cost and Resource Center (DCARC)

Dr. Ronald D. Lile, Program Analysis & Evaluation, Office of the Secretary of Defense

 

Software Data Needs Panel

Mr. Randall Jensen, Software Technology Support Center

Mr. Michael Popp, Naval Air Systems Command

Dr. Ronald D. Lile, Program Analysis & Evaluation, Office of the Secretary of Defense

 

Hardware Data Analysis Needs Panel

Hardware Data Analysis Needs: An Air Force Cost Estimator’s Perspective

Mr. John Fitch, Air Force Cost Analysis Agency

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Mr. David Stem, Air Force Cost Analysis Agency

          Hardware Data Analysis Needs: An Army Analyst’s Perspective

Mr. Don Allen, Naval Air Systems Center

Hardware Cost Data Needs: AIR-4.2 Cost Estimator’s Perspective

Mr. Dale Penner, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army  (Cost & Economics)

Dr. Ronald D. Lile, Program Analysis & Evaluation, Office of the Secretary of Defense

 

Business Intelligence:  Turning Data into Knowledge, and Knowledge into Informed Decision

Captain Michael Murphy, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology & Logistics)

 

Improving Data Collection, Availability, and Visualization

Ms. Elizabeth Flaharty and Mr. Schatten Douglas, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology & Logistics)

Dr. Ronald D. Lile, Program Analysis & Evaluation, Office of the Secretary of Defense

 

VAMOSC Overview

Mr. Walter Cooper, Program Analysis & Evaluation, Office of the Secretary of Defense

 

VAMOSC

Mr. Michael Carey, Naval Center for Cost Analysis

 

OSMIS (Operating and Support Management Information System)

Ms Kathleen O’Brien, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army (Cost & Economics)

 

AFTOC (Air Force Total Ownership Cost)

Mr. Richard Snow, Air Force Cost Analysis Agency

 

NATO/Partnership for Peace Study: Nations’ Life Cycle Cost Methods and Models Report

Mr. Marcel Smit, TNO Defence, Security and Safety

 

The Impact of Human Capital on the Cost of Air Force Acquisition Programs

Captain Jeffrey Feuring, USAF, Air Force Institute of Technology

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