Quality Cost Estimates in the Quest for Contractor Equilibrium

Abstract

Abstract In the Summer 2006 issue of The Journal of Parametrics, Rich Hartley, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Cost and Economics, began this series of essays on what constitutes a quality cost estimate with his insightful article, “What Are Quality Cost Estimates?” Rich staked out the high ground, providing guidance on what constitutes a high quality cost estimate, his perspective on cost analysis in source selections and where cost estimating is headed in the U.S. Air Force.