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New DoD cost estimating guide fails to address the problems facing the cost community

February 23, 2021 Eric Lofgren 2

“No one can predict the future” is an often-used cliché, and yet this is what the DoD asks its cost estimating community to do every […]

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Take-aways from the updated DoD Directive 5000.01

September 15, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

Overall, DoDD 5000.01 went from 10 pages to 16, though two of those are for a table of contents. In terms of word count, it […]

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