Last Updated: August 20, 2010

Recent Presentations

Month Presented Presentation Presenter
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 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. Timthoy 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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