SBIR-STTR Award

Cost Estimating Relationships for Evaluation of Rapidly Evolving Technologies
Award last edited on: 7/22/2019

Sponsored Program
SBIR
Awarding Agency
DOD : AF
Total Award Amount
$899,492
Award Phase
2
Solicitation Topic Code
AF172-008
Principal Investigator
Bill Moore

Company Information

Defense Engineering Corporation (AKA: DEC)

2458 Dayton-Xenia Roa
Beavercreek, OH 45431
   (937) 912-1122
   N/A
   www.TeamDEC.com
Location: Single
Congr. District: 10
County: Green

Phase I

Contract Number: FA8650-18-P-2211
Start Date: 00/00/00    Completed: 00/00/00
Phase I year
2018
Phase I Amount
$149,492
DEC will demonstrate feasibility of an integrated cost/benefit analysis tool called CCADET (Cost Capability Analysis for Disruptive Emerging Technologies).CCADET incorporates innovative CERs based on Technology Readiness Level (TRL) and factors as well asinnovative performance prediction methods for emerging technologieswhich plug into the AFSIM framework and aggregate results up the simulation pyramid.

Phase II

Contract Number: FA8100-19-C-0005
Start Date: 00/00/00    Completed: 00/00/00
Phase II year
2019
Phase II Amount
$750,000
The objective of the Cost Estimating Relationships for Evaluation of Rapidly Evolving Technologies Program is to demonstrate the feasibility of an integrated toolset to quantitatively assess cost/risk/benefit tradespaces for emerging and potentially disruptive technologies for product line acquisition of new capability against the baseline of existing weapon systems/subsystems. DECs approach includes two components: the historically based (possibly modified) cost data from similar systems/technologies and the impact of the added risk and uncertainty of the new technologies. Because the goal is to assess not only the development cost, but also the entire Life Cycle Cost (LCC), a means of estimating the risk/uncertainty component across all LCC phases is included..The CCADET toolset has these features: 1) Collaboration capability to derive the best solution based on cost, requirements, and performance expertise; 2) Costing for emerging technologies; 3) Data visualization for both inputs and outputs; 4) Multi-dimensional tradespace including cost, performance, risk, reliability, and maintainability; 5) Real-time results; 6) Affordable, flexible, agile, iterative, classified or unclassified; 7) Non-proprietary to maximize the number of users; 8) Addresses 11-step Cost Capability; and 9) Capture and document knowledge throughout the system life cycle.