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Welcome to the Cost Estimating community. This newly established 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.

 

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[References] DoDD 5105.84 Director of Cost Assessment & Program Evaluation (11 May 12)

Tue, 22 May 2012

[Response] Kelley, From what you described, you most likely do not have the proper DoD certificates loaded on your computer. They are not something that ships with a computer and you have to go in and load them manually to preclude that warning. If you go to https://acc.dau.mil/CommunityBrowser.aspx?id=199100&lang=en-US you will find instructions on how to resolve that issue (note that the page I provided will give you that same warning to click through, but once you have downloaded the proper certificates you will resolve it for any DoD site using secure sockets (https://) that you go to.

Mon, 23 Apr 2012

[Response] Kelley, From what you described, you most likely do not have the proper DoD certificates loaded on your computer. They are not something that ships with a computer and you have to go in and load them manually to preclude that warning. If you go to https://acc.dau.mil/CommunityBrowser.aspx?id=199100&lang=en-US you will find instructions on how to resolve that issue (note that the page I provided will give you that same warning to click through, but once you have downloaded the proper certificates you will resolve it for any DoD site using secure sockets (https://) that you go to.

Mon, 23 Apr 2012

[Question] What "share of cost/automated cost estimate " tool is best to use when a government agency is building a first time website?

Mon, 23 Apr 2012

[Question] Second Question: What "show of cost/automated cost estimate" is recommended when government agency is maintaining a gov. website?

Mon, 23 Apr 2012

[References] Business-Cost Estimating (BUS-CE) Course Fulfillment

Tue, 10 Apr 2012

[Related Websites] NAVAIR Cost Department - AIR 4.2

Tue, 27 Dec 2011

[Learning Materials] DAU Teaching Note - Analysis of Alternatives (Feb 2011)

Thu, 10 Nov 2011

[Learning Materials] DAU Teaching Note - Application of Learning Curve Theory to Systems Acquisition (Feb 2011)

Thu, 10 Nov 2011

[Learning Materials] DAU Teaching Note - Cost as an Independent Variable (Feb 2011)

Thu, 10 Nov 2011
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