Cost Estimating Links

Contents

• Government
  • DOD
  • Air Force
  • Army
  • Navy
  • NASA
  • ESA
• Companies
• Associations
• Education

Government

• DOD

  • Aerospace Corporation
  • Analytic Services, Inc. (ANSER)
  • DOD Costing References
  • DOD Tools & Models Index
  • Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)
  • Logistics Management Institute (LMI)
  • MIT Lincoln Lab
  • MITRE Corporation
  • RAND
  • Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University
  • Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) USD(C)

• Air Force

  • Air Force Cost Analysis Agency (AFCAA)
  • Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT)
  • Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Financial Management & Comptroller) SAF/FM

• Army

  • Army Cost & Economic Analysis Center (CEAC)
  • Assistant Secretary of the Army for Financial Management & Comptroller ASA (FM&C)

• Navy

  • Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Financial Management & Comptroller) (FM&C)
  • Naval Center for Cost Analysis (NCCA)
  • Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), Cost Engineering & Industrial Analysis Division

• NASA

  • Cost Estimating Group, Johnson Space Center
  • JSC Office of the Chief Financial Officer (restricted access: NASA only)
  • Independent Program Assessment Office (IPAO), Langley Research Center 
  • NASA Office of the Chief Financial Officer
  • Project Design Center, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

• ESA

  • Cost Analysis Division, ESA/ESTEC

Companies

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• ARINC
• Angel Group
• Artemis International
• Booz-Allen & Hamilton
• Buildingteam.com
• Craftsman Book Company
• CPR International, Inc.
• DCD Technologies
• Deccan Systems, Inc.
• Decisioneering
• Document Center Inc.
• EER Systems
• Engineering Information Inc.
• Engineering News-Record
• Estimating Systems Inc.
• F.W. Dodge
• Frank R. Walker
• Galorath Inc.
• G2 Inc.
• Hanscomb Limited
• Institute of Management & Administration (IOMA)
• Intergraph International
• John Galt Solutions, Inc.
• Lumina Decision Systems, Inc.
• Management Computer Controls, Inc. (MC2)
• Management Consulting & Research, Inc. (MCR)
• Manufacturers Technologies
• Marotz, Inc.
• McCabe & Associates
• Micro Estimating Systems, Inc.
• Modern Technologies Corporation (MTC)
• MITRE Corporation
• Networked Financial Systems, Inc. (NFS)
• The Object Factory
• OnTrack Engineering Ltd.
• PAS
• Palisade Corporation
• Phoenix Technical Services, Inc.
• PRICE Systems
• Primavera Systems, Inc.
• PS Industry Inc.
• Richardson Engineering Services, Inc.
• R.S. Means
• SAS Institute
• SEMCOR
• SPSS, Inc.
• Sweet's Group
• TASC
• Technomics
• Tecolote Research
• Timberline Software Company
• U.S. Cost
• Vertigraph
• Welcom
• WinEstimator, Inc.

Associations

• AACE International (AACE)
  • Catawba Valley (Charlotte) Section
  • Chinook-Calgary
  • East Tennessee Section
  • Genesee Valley
  • Houston-Gulf Coast Section
  • New Jersey
  • Rattlesnake Mountain (Washington) Section
  • Rocky Mountain Section
  • St. Louis Section
  • Southern California
  • Southwestern Ohio
  • East Tennessee Section
  • University of Tennessee
• American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
• American Institute of Architects (AIA)
• American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
• American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)
• American Society of Military Comptrollers (ASMC)
• American Society of Professional Estimators (ASPE)
• APICS - the Educational Society for Resource Management
• Association Francophone de Management de Projet (AFITEP) [French Project Management Association]
• Association of Cost Engineers (ACostE) (UK)
• Association of South African Quantity Surveyors (ASAQS)
• Canadian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (CIQS)
• Center for International Project and Program Management (CIPPM)
• Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE)
• The Consortium for Advanced Manufacturing - International (CAM-I)
• Construction Specifications Institute (CSI)
• Dutch Association of Cost Engineers (DACE) promotes the knowledge of cost engineering and the implementation of cost engineering.
• The Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors (HKIS)
• Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
• International Construction Information Society (ICIS)
• International Cost Engineering Council (ICEC)
• International Council On Systems Engineering (INCOSE)
• International Project Management Association (IPMA)
• International Society of Parametric Analysts (ISPA)
• New Zealand Institute of Quantity Surveyors (NZIQS)
• Project Management Institute (PMI) - PMI establishes Project Management standards, provides seminars, educational programs and professional certification that more and more organizations desire for their project leaders.
• SAVE International - A professional society for value engineering.
• Space Systems Cost Analysis Group (SSCAG) - A consortium of international (US and NATO Allied Nations) organizations from government and industry, SSCAG is concerned with the development and production cost of space destined, hardware, software, and few-of-a-kind systems.
• Society of Cost Estimating and Analysis (SCEA) - A Non-Profit Organization dedicated to improving cost estimating and analysis in government and industry and enhancing the professional competence and achievements of its members.
• Svenskt Projektforum [Swedish Project Management Society]
• Verkefnastjórnunarfélag Íslands (VSFÍ) [Icelandic Project Management Society] (Icelandic Version)

Education

• The Graduate Cost Analysis Program (GCA), Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB) - The Graduate Cost Analysis Program provides a graduate education designed to support Air Force and DoD cost analysts involved in weapon system acquisition. The GCA program merges general management skills and concepts with the technical quantitative skills needed by a cost analyst. The program ensures that the student understands the cost analyst's environment and role, the concepts of cost modeling and estimation, and the correct application of quantitative techniques used in cost estimation and cost analysis. This 15-month resident program culminates in the award of a Master of Science in Cost Analysis. Students enter the program in June and graduate the following September.
• Defense Acquisition University - Established by Congress in 1990 to consolidate and integrate education and training for more than 110,000 people in the Defense Acquisition Workforce. Consortium member schools provide more than 85 acquisition courses to entry, intermediate, and senior level civilian and uniformed personnel to allow them to attain certification in one or more of the 11 defense acquisition career fields. Courses are developed and delivered by 12 DoD educational institutions and by contractors to DAU.
• Productivity Analysis and Cost Modeling - Discusses research into the role of advanced cost models in product development and manufacturing.