Developing a Cost of Delay (CoD) Framework for the DoD and Analyzing the Current State of Air Force Agile Cost Estimation

Abstract

The study has two research objectives. The first research objective develops a proof of concept for a Cost of Delay (CoD) framework to evaluate the Air Forces Kessel Run Software Factory. CoD provides a means to justify and prioritize competing interests regarding budgetary, manpower, and overall strategic decisions. DoD organizations can employ a cost minimization framework to conduct CoD Analysis. The results demonstrate Software Factories eschew trends in the literature towards more complicated cost models that incorporate machine learning with Data-Based techniques in lieu of simpler models that utilize Engineering Build-up Capacity Based techniques.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2021
Accession Number
AD1136763

Entities

People

  • James Goljan

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology
  • Norwegian Defence Research Establishment

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agile Software Development
  • Air Force
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Bayesian Networks
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Data Mining
  • Data Science
  • Databases
  • Information Science
  • Information Systems
  • Machine Learning
  • Network Science
  • Organizational Structure
  • Software Development
  • Supervised Machine Learning

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy