Timothy Anderson

Washington Area Chapter Programs Chair

Mr. Timothy P. Anderson is a Senior Engineering Specialist with The Aerospace Corporation, and a professional cost analyst and operations research analyst with over sixteen years’ experience, primarily in Department of Defense (DoD) weapon systems and national security space acquisition. Tim is a recent returnee to Aerospace. After serving in various roles in Aerospace from 2001 to 2008, he embarked on a two-year tour in the Corporate Technical Directorate of MCR, LLC. While at MCR he was responsible for customer support as well as in-house consulting on cost estimating and cost risk analysis issues. His major customers included the Director of National Intelligence, Cost Analysis Improvement Group (DNI/CAIG) and the Navy Engineering Logistics Office. At both Aerospace and MCR, he has been responsible for cost estimating support and overall technical leadership. Tim’s areas of interest are cost analysis, cost uncertainty analysis, operations research, and decision analysis. Mr. Anderson served for 20 years in the U.S. Navy and began working in the cost estimating field in 1994 while assigned to the Naval Center for Cost Analysis. Following that he served as a military professor at the Naval Postgraduate School, teaching cost estimation, operations research, and other technical courses. He retired from the Navy in June 2001. Mr. Anderson has a B.S. in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan, and an M.S. in Operations Research from the Naval Postgraduate School. He is a SCEA certified cost estimator/analyst; a board member of the Washington D.C. Area chapter of SCEA; an adjunct professor in the Systems Engineering and Operations Research departments of the Naval Postgraduate School; was recognized as the “2010 SCEA National Estimator/Analyst of the Year for Technical Achievement;” was awarded the “2010 Wayne E. Meyer Award for Teaching Excellence” from the Naval Postgraduate School; and he is a frequent presenter of topics related to cost estimating and cost uncertainty analysis at forums including SCEA, the Military Operations Research Society (MORS), the DoD Cost Analysis Symposium (DoDCAS), the Integrated Program Management (IPM) Conference, and the Space Systems Cost Analysis Group (SSCAG).

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