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You can’t place a price on an unknown

February 20, 2021 Eric Lofgren 1

Cost estimating for development programs has apparently been too widely credited in the Defense Department, in industry, in the Congress, and by the public with […]

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When should cost-effectiveness studies start?

February 21, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

… you can’t apply cost effectiveness to really basic research. Otherwise you never would discover new genes in biology for example if you had to […]

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Fitzhugh’s take on task partitioning and fly-before-you-buy

October 3, 2019 Eric Lofgren 1

If you break it down into smaller units and you have more contractors in the business… It is not so vital in that situation for […]

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