Cost, Schedule, Risk Analysis

Key Benefits:

• Bounds cost estimates and quantifiable confidence intervals

• Helps decision-makers understand key cost drivers and their associated risk factors

• Highlights technical risks to both cost and schedule (conversely, highlights performance requirements that can or should be relaxed (subject to operational risk considerations) to maintain cost / schedule)

Capabilities:

• Modeling potential technical, performance and LCC implications of new technologies

• Technology insertion planning: identifying transition and advocacy opportunities for new technology

• Program Earned Value Management (EVM) analyses (CPI, SPI, TCPI, ETC, EAC…)

• Return on Investment (ROI) analysis

• Assessment of affordability

• Feasibility assessments

• Risk assessments of System Architectures

• Evaluation of advanced design / manufacturing techniques

Clients:

• Department of Homeland Security, Science & Technology Directorate (DHS(S&T)):  Evaluating schedule and cost implications of alternative acquisition strategies for the next generation checked baggage screening systems.  Used Government LCC Model/Estimate for the Counter-MANPADS program to evaluate various deployment options and their cost/schedule implications.
• DARPA: Orbital Express program, Unmanned Ground Combat Vehicle, Airborne Communications Node (ACN) program, Special Projects Office - developing technology insertion plans and modeling LCC implications
• NASA: Cost and risk assessments of flying a UAV through the Mars atmosphere
• Air Force: Cost assessment of the ground segment and integrated sensor suite for the Global Hawk UAV system, evaluation of introducing Neural Network capability to the flight control system of large-scale aircraft such as the C-17