What are Quality Cost Estimates? or the 260 Hz Cost Estimate

Abstract

In the last issue of JoP, the Summer 2006 issue, Rich Hartley, Director of the Air Force Cost Analysis Agency and Chair of the Air Force Cost Analysis Improvement Group, wrote a very insightful article on “What Are Quality Cost Estimates?”. He wrote from his perspective as lead for Air Force cost estimating. Inspired by Rich’s article (and dogged by the JoP editor) I offer in this issue a companion essay from the NASA perspective.