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This Community serves as a platform to connect Cost Estimating practitioners from across multiple career fields, offering them a chance to talk, share, and acquire knowledge about key Cost Estimating topics.

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Welcome to the Cost Estimating community. This career field encompasses all aspects of business cost estimating. As advisors to commanders, Program Executive Officers (PEOs), program managers, or other acquisition decision makers, individuals in this career field are responsible for business cost estimating of defense acquisition programs in direct support of the defense acquisition process.