This Community supports DoD’s cost estimating career field. As advisors to commanders, Program Executive Officers (PEOs), program managers, and other acquisition decision makers, individuals in this career field are responsible for Life Cycle Cost Estimating of defense acquisition programs in direct support of the defense acquisition process. The community covers all aspects of developing a Life Cycle Cost Estimate including requirements assessment, Work Breakdown Structures, data sources, data normalization and analysis, parametric and non-parametric modeling, software cost estimating, Operations and Support cost estimating, cost risk/uncertainty analysis and documentation and presentation of cost estimates.
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