Modeling median will-cost estimates for defense acquisition programs

A Study of Best Practice Adoption by Defense Acquisition Programs

Defense (DoD) spends an estimated $20 billion a year on software to support its infrastructure; operate its weapons systems ; and provide command, control, communications, computing, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance functions. DoD acquires the large majority of this software from contractor sources. There have been significant cost overruns and schedule delays experienced in DoD s...

Low Cost 3D Face Acquisition and Modeling

In this article we present a low cost 3 0 face modeling scheme that uses only an overhead projectoq a camera and a plane object. We deal with the calibration of such a system, the 3 0 face reconstruction itself; and then the texturing of the resulting 3 0 shape.

reliabilty assessment of conceptual cost estimates for building construction projects

in the early stages of a construction project, the reliability and accuracy of conceptual cost estimates are major concerns for clients and cost engineers. previous studies applied scoring methods and established common rules or mathematical methods to assess the quality of cost estimates. however, those approaches have some limitations in adapting to real-world projects or require understandin...

Learning Cost Semantics for Modeling Running Time of OCaml Programs

Programmers would greatly benefit from a source-language model of the running time of compiled code that goes beyond asymptotics. However, it is a difficult problem to accurately model the running time of compiled code at the source level. In this work, we present an operational cost semantics to model the running time of OCaml programs on a specific hardware architecture. Our hypothesis is tha...

Understanding Defense Acquisition Workforce Challenges