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Recent Presentations

Month Presented	Presentation	Presenter
October 2011	You Really Don’t Have to Lose a Million Dollars a Year	Mr. Michael Thompson
September 2011	The Infrastructure Service Provider (ISP) Cost Model	Ms. Belinda Nethery & Mr. Kyle Thomas (TASC)
June 2011	Outreach: Experiences of a First Year Cost Estimating Team	Mr. William R. Taylor (DHS)
May 2011	Development and Application of CV Benchmarks	Mr. Brian Flynn (Naval Center for Cost Analysis)
March 2011	Using Regression Equations to Determine Cost Estimating Relationships for Software Development	Mr. William Barfield (Quantech Services, Inc.)
January 2011	Fat Tailed Distributions For Cost and Schedule Risk	Mr. John Neatrour (MCR LLC)
December 2010	Decisions, Decisions: Why You Oughta Use Borda	Dr. Neal D. Hulkower, PhD (MCR LLC)
November 2010	Function Point Analysis: Introduction and Basic Overview as an Alternative to SLOC-based Estimation	Mr. Tucker Moore (TASC, Inc.)
September 2010	Probability Bounds Analysis for S-Curves	Dr. Christopher Mehl (Omnitec Solutions, Inc.) Mr. Michael Popp (NAVAIR 4.2 Cost Department)
August 2010	Competition in DoD Systems Acquisition: Past Lessons and Future Considerations	Mr. Brian E. Torgerson (Technomics, Inc.)
May 2010	The Impact of Globalization and Shifting Defense Priorities on the Defense Industrial Base	Dr. Nayantara Hensel (Department of Navy)
March 2010	There is No Such Thing as a Bad Estimate	Mr. Joe Lukas (PMCentersUSA)
October 2009	Initiatives for Cost Analysis in the Department of the Navy	Captain James Baratta (Naval Center for Cost Analysis)
April 2009	Cost aspects of SOA	Mr. Geoffrey Pierce (IAI)
November 2008	A Distribution-Free Measure of the Significance of CER: Fit Parameters Established Using GERM	Mr. Timothy Anderson (MCR LLC)
October 2008	Quantifying the Impact of Proposed Risk Mitigation Strategies: Does the Cost of the Mitigation Exceed the Cost of the Impact?	Mr. Phil Beenhouwer (The MITRE Corporation)
September 2008	Numeracy for Cost Analysts	Dr. Neal D. Hulkower, PhD (MCR LLC)
February 2008	NATO Independent Cost Estimating & Capability Portfolio Analysis	Brian Flynn (Naval Center for Cost Analysis)
January 2008	Software Code Growth Based on an Analysis of Historical Actuals	Robert Jones (Technomics, Inc.) Paul Hardin (Technomics, Inc.)
November 2007	Why Can't We All Just Get Along: Lessons in Reconciling Cost Estimates	Dr. Neal D. Hulkower, PhD (MCR LLC) Lawrence Wolfarth (MCR LLC)
October 2007	Pre-Milestone-A Cost Estimating	Martha Roper (ODASA-CE)
September 2007	DoD Cost Inflation Handbook and Users guide	Greg Wise (MCR LLC) Charles Cochran (MCR LLC)
February 2007	"Thin-Slicing" for Costers: Estimating in a Blink of an Eye	Dr. Neal D. Hulkower, PhD (MCR LLC)
January 2007	KC-135 Analysis of Alternatives (Presentation Unavailable)	Mike Boito (RAND Corp)
November 2006	The trouble with budgeting to the 80th Percentile	Mr. Timothy Anderson (Aerospace Corporation)
October 2006	EVM For Cost Estimators	John Driessnack/ Dr. Neal Hulkower (MCR LLC)
May 2006	Risk Analysis & Estimating Uncertainty...and what this has to do with the price of milk in McLean	Mr. Phil Beenhouwer (The MITRE Corporation)
February 2006	An Approach to Probabilistic Modeling for Mixed Data Types with Missing Values	Ms. Denna Ohwevwo (Booz Allen Hamilton) Mr. Brian Alford (Booz Allen Hamilton)
September 2005	Changes in the Navy's Buying Power: Evidence on Basic Questions (Presentation Unavailable)	Jino Choi (CNA Corporation) Jim Jondrow (CNA Corporation)
May 2005	Function Point Analysis	Ian Brown (Booz Allen Hamilton)
April 2005	Estimating Program Risk through Schedule Normalization Techniques	Chris Beatty (Missile Defense Agency) Paul Tetrault (The MITRE Corporation) David LaChance (MCR LLC)
March 2005	Intelligence Reform Act	Rick Albertson
January 2005	Work Breakdown Structure Development and MIL Handbook 881 Update	Neil Albert (MCR Federal)
November 2004	Navy Flying Hour Program	Larry Stoll (NAVAIR Cost Group) Tim Conley (NAVAIR Cost Group)
October 2004	Integrating Cost & Schedule Risk Analyses	Jason Dechoretz (MCR Federal)
September 2004	Update on the Army's OSMIS Update on the Air Force AFTOC Update on the Navy's VAMOSC	Kathleen O’Brien (SAFM-CES) Gary McNutt (Air Force Headquarters) Wendy Kunc (Naval Cost Analysis Division)
August 2004	The Shipbuilding & Force Structure Analysis Tool  ** Large File ** The Shipbuilding & Force Structure Analysis Tool  ** Summary **	Mark V. Arena (The RAND Corporation) John F. Schank (The RAND Corporation)
March 2004	COTS Integration Costs	Linda Brooks (Northrop Grumman)
November 2003	A) Contractor Cost & Software Resources Reporting B) Introduction to Contracts	A) Ron Lyle & Gary Bliss (Defense Cost and Resource Center) B) James Myers (NAVAIR)
October 2003	NCG Risk Process	Mr. Timothy Anderson (Aerospace Corporation)

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