Presentations Archive

2019

Month	Presentation	Presenter	Company
August	DAU Certification Requirements and Training Initiatives in the Cost Estimating Career Field	Sharon Jackson	MITRE
July	High Maintenance	Bryan Anderson	Cibec
April	China Strategic Choices Tool	Jack Bianchi	CSBA
March	A Practical Approach to Data Science and Data Analytics	Tom Sullivan	Herren Associates
	Conditions for Effective Use of Machine Learning	Brian Wright	OUSD
	Finding New Dimensions in Cost Estimating	Pam Wood	The Aerospace Corporation
	Data Science Cost Estimating Challenges: Cut Your Time in Hack!	Lorraine Feury	Booz Allen Hamilton
	Opportunities and Challenges of Publicly Available Data	Elizabeth Bodine-Baron	RAND

2018

2018	Presentation	Presented By	Company
December	Portfolio Analysis Integration	Fana Gebeyehu-Houston	DOE
November	Costing Blockchains	Harvey Reed	MITRE
October	Have All the Cost Estimates Already Been Done	Jeremy Eden	Booz Allen Hamilton
September	Where Have All the Estimators Gone?	Tom Dauber	Cobec Consulting
August	Social Media and and Submarines	Omar Akbik	Technomics, Inc.
July	Cost of Cyber in the Cloud	Zachary Jasnoff	Price Systems, LLC.
May	Cost Estimating and Analysis, not just for Weapons Systems, Any More	Michael Thompson	Galorath Federal
April	SURF Process Update	Marc Russo	NCCA
January	Overview of GAO Best Practices Guides and Audit Results	Karen Richey	GAOl

2017

2017	Presentation	Presented By	Company
December	Calculating a Project’s Reserve Dollars from its S-Curve (cost distribution)	Marc W. Greenberg	NASA
November	Overview of the Cost FACTS (Factors, Analogies, CER’s & Tools/Studies) Group	Dan Harper and Ruth Dorr	MITRE
October	The Shortcomings of Cost Estimating Templates	Megam Gadreault and Faye Kim	Harren
September	Cost and Schedule Estimating Suite (CaSES)	Nick Lanham	NCCA/CAPE
July	Cost Estimating within DHS Cost Analysis Division (CAD)	Katie Geier Noreiga	DHS CAD
May	Modeling with Gumby: Pros and Cons of the Weibull Curve	Jake Mender and Ann Hawpe	NCCA
April	Bottom Up Methods of Estimating Software SE/PM and Non-DCTI Costs	James “Jay” Black	HHS
March	Failure to reason: Intuition and Decision Making Under Uncertainty	Capt. Christopher Thomas	AFCAA
February	Better Cost Estimation through Radically Improved Risk Identification	Laurie Wiggins	Sysenex
January	Applying Earned Value Management to Agile Software Development Programs	Bob Hunt	Galorath Federal

2016

Month	Presentation	Presented By	Company
October	Weather Predictions and a Day in the Life of a Meteorologist	Veronica Johnson	WJLA/ABC7 Weather
September	Selling Your Work: Improving Your Briefing Skills	Troy Miller	Tecolote Research
July	Training Cost Analysts, a Cohesive Pedagogical Framework for Success	Kammy Mann	Herren Associates
May	Estimating the Cost of the Aegis Flight III Test Platform	Jeremy Goucher	Herren Associates
April	Electronics Board Cost Estimating	Chris Brown	PACER Corporation
March	Outlier Analysis	Marc Greenberg	NASA
February	Modeling Prediction Intervals using Monte Carlo Simulation Software	Jay Black	U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
January	10 Important Financial Planning Tips While You’re Still Working	Mr. Scott Broaddus	Virginia Asset Management

2015

Month	Presentations	Presented By	Company
September	Introduction to the COSMIC Method of Measuring Software	Mr. Bruce Reynolds	Tecolote Research
November	Bottom Up Methods of Estimating Depot Level Repairables	Mr. Timothy Lawless	NAVSEA 05C
October	Early Phase Software Cost and Schedule Estimation Models	Dr. Wilson Rosa	NCCA
August	Double Down: Cost Estimating in CEBoK and PMBoK	Kevin Cincotta	ICF International
July	Facilitating Predictive Cost Analytics via Modelling V&V	John Swaren	PRICE Systems
May	Cloud Computing Starter Kit: Cost and Business Case Considerations	Raj Agrawal and Jennifer Manring	MITRE
April	A ‘Common Risk Factor’ Method to Estimate Correlations Between Distributions (addendum)	Marc Greenberg	NASA
March	Using Stochastic Optimization to Improve Risk Mitigation	Graham Gilmer	Booz Allen Hamilton

2014

Month	Presentations	Presented By	Company
October	GAO Earned Value Management (EVM) Best Practices and Recent Audit Findings	Karen Richey	GAO
September	Modeling Software Maintenance Costs in the Operating and Maintenance (O&M) Phase: An Overview of Analytical Processes and Modeling Issues	Greg Bell	MCR
August	The Cost Assessment Data Enterprise (CADE)	Bess Dopkeen	OSD CAPE
May	Software Test Costs and Return on Investment (ROI) Issues	Bob Hunt	Dulos, Inc.
April	Enhanced Scenario-Based Method (eSBM) for Cost Risk Analysis-eSBM	Dr. Paul Garvey	MITRE
April	Enhanced Scenario-Based Method (eSBM) for Cost Risk Analysis-eSBM JCAP Published	Dr. Paul Garvey	MITRE
April	Enhanced Scenario-Based Method (eSBM) for Cost Risk Analysis-Cost Risk MP Version	Dr. Paul Garvey	MITRE
March	Analytical Program Management: Integrating Cost, Schedule, and Risk	Graham Gilmer	Booz Allen Hamilton
January	A Method for Estimating the Cost of Joint Open Air Range (OAR) Test & Evaluation Programs	Gregory Bell	Navy

2013

Month	Presentations	Presented By	Company
September	Methods to Analyze Services Portfolio Cost Drivers and Efficiencies	Valarie Reinert & Ginny Wydler	MITRE Corporation
July	Cost Facts ICEAA Luncheon July 2013	Ruth Dorr & Daniel Harper	MITRE Corporation
May	Price-To-Win (PTW) A Cost Estimator’s Perspective	Bob Hunt, Tom Sanders & Jon Kilgore	Dulos, Inc./Seer/Kalman & Company Inc.
March	Contract Pricing	Steven Oxman	US Navy/NCCA
February	Capabilities-Based Portfolio Analysis	Paul Gvoth & Brad Ellis	Cask

2012

Month	Presentations	Presented By	Company
November	NRO Program Assessments: Best Practices and Lessons Learned	Linda Williams	Wyle
August	Probability Distributions for Risk Analysis	Peter Braxton & Travis Manning	Technomics Inc.
June	Teaching Pigs to Sing: Improving Fidelity of Assessments from Subject Matter Experts (SMEs)	Peter Braxton & Richard Coleman	Technomics Inc.
May	Different Forms of Software	Steven Oxman	NCCA
April	A Step-Wise Approach to Elicit Triangular Distributions	Marc Greenberg	DHS
Annual Meeting	2012 SCEA-WAC Annual Meeting Briefing	David Stem, President	AFCAA
January	Data Normalization and Inflation-Data Collection, Normalization Inflation	Brian Welsh & Angela Camp	Technomics Inc.

2011

Month	Presentations	Presented By	Company
November	Contract Pricing	Kevin Cincotta & Colleen Craig	Technomics Inc.
October	You Really Don’t Have to Lose a Million Dollars a Year	Michael Thompson
September	The Infrastructure Service Provider (ISP) Cost Model	Belinda Nethery & Kyle Thomas	TASC Inc.
June	Outreach: Experiences of a First Year Cost Estimating Team	William R. Taylor	DHS
May	Development and Application of CV Benchmarks	Brian Flynn	Naval Center for Cost Analysis
March	Using Regression Equations to Determine Cost Estimating Relationships for Software Development	William Barfield	Quantech Services Inc.
January	Fat Tailed Distributions For Cost and Schedule Risk	John Neatrour	MCR LLC

2010

Month	Presentations	Presented By	Company
December	Decisions, Decisions: Why You Oughta Use Borda	Dr. Neal Hulkower	MCR LLC
November	Function Point Analysis: Introduction and Basic Overview as an Alternative to SLOC-based Estimation	Tucker Moore	TASC Inc.
October	Economic Analysis
September	Probability Bounds Analysis for S-Curves	Christopher Mehl & Michael Popp	Omnitech Solution Inc. & NAVAIR 4.2 Cost Department
August	Competition in DoD Systems Acquisition: Past Lessons and Future Considerations	Brian Torgerson	Technomics, Inc.
May	The Impact of Globalization and Shifting Defense Priorities on the Defense Industrial Base	Nayantara Hensel	Department of Navy
March	There Is No Such Thing as a Bad Estimate	Joe Lukas	PMCentersUSA

2009

Month	Presentations	Presented By	Company
October	Initiatives for Cost Analysis in the Department of the Navy	Captain James Baratta	Naval Center of Cost Analysis
April	Cost Aspects of SOA	Geoffrey Pierce	IAI

2008

Month	Presentations	Presented By	Company
November	A Distribution Free Measure of the Significance of CER: Fit Parameters Established Using GERM	Timothy Anderson	MCR LLC
October	Quantifying the Impact of Proposed Risk Mitigation Strategies: Does the Cost of the Mitigation Exceed the Cost of the Impact?	Phil iBeenhouwer	MITRE Corporation
September	Numeracy for Cost Analyst	Dr. Neal Hulkower	MCR LLC
February	NATO Independent Cost Estimating & Capability Portfolio Analysis	Brian Flynn	Naval Center for Cost Analysis
January	Software Code Growth Based on an Analysis of Historical Actuals	Robert Jones & Paul Hardin	Technomics Inc.

2007

Month	Presentations	Presented By	Company
November	Why Can’t We All Just Get Along: Lessons in Reconciling Cost Estimates	Dr. Neal Hulkower & Lawrence Wolfarth	MCR LLC
October	Pre-Milestone-A Cost Estimating	Martha Roper	ODAS-CE
September	DoD Cost Inflation Handbook DoD Cost Users Guide	Greg Wise & Charles Cochran	MCR LLC
February	“Thin-Slicing” for Costers: Estimating in a Blink of an Eye	Dr. Neal Hulkower	MCR LLC
January	KC-135 Analysis of Alternatives	Mike Boito	RAND Corporation

2006

Month	Presentations	Presented By	Company
November	The trouble with Budgeting to the 80th Percentile	Timothy Anderson	Aerospace Corporation
October	EVM for Cost Estimators	John Driessnack & Dr. Neal Hulkower	MCR LLC
May	Risk Analysis & Estimating Uncertainty	Phil Beenhouwer	MITRE Corporation
February	An Approach to Probablistic Modeling for Mixed Data Types with Missing Values	Denna Ohwevwo & Brian Alford	Booz Allen Hamilton

2005

Month	Presentations	Presented By	Company
September	Changes in the Navy’s Buying Power: Evidence on Basic Questions (Unavailable)	Jino Choi & Jim Jondrow	CNA Corporation
May	Function Point Analysis	Ian Brown	Booz Allen Hamilton
April	Estimating Program Risk through Schedule Normalization Techniques	Chris Beatty, Paul Tetrault, David LaChance	Missile Defense Agency, The MITRE Corporation, MCR LLC
March	Intelligence Reform Act	Albertson	Wyle

2004

Month	Presentations	Presented By	Company
November	Navy Flying Hour Program	Larry Stoll & Time Conley	NAVAIR Cost Group
October	Integrating Cost & Schedule Risk Analyses	Jason Dechoretz	MCR Federal
September	Update on the Army’s OSMIS	Kathleen O’Brien	SAFM=CES
September	Update on the Air Force AFTOC	Gary McNutt	Air Force Headquarters
September	Update on the Navy’s VAMOSC	Wendy Kunc	Naval Cost Analysis Division
August	The Shipbuilding & Force Structure Analysis Tool (Large File) The Shipbuilding & Force Structure Analysis Tool (Small File)	Mark V. Arena & John F. Schank	The RAND Corporation
March	COTS Integration Costs	Linda Brooks	Northrop Grumman

2003

Month	Presentations	Presented By	Company
November	Contractor Cost & Software Resources Reporting	Ron Lyle & Gary Bliss	Defense Cost and Resource Center
November	2A Introduction to Contracts 2B Introduction to Contracts	James Myers	NAVAIR
October	NCG Risk Process	Timothy Anderson	Aerospace Corporation