Cask Sponsoring Fourth Annual USMC IT Day

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Meet with Cask’s Directors and Business Development Lead at the upcoming USMC IT Day at The Clubs at Quantico. Learn about the “Pivot to the Pacific: C4 Opportunities & Challenges.”

To learn more about the event, visit the AFCEA Quantico-Potomac WEBSITE

Cask Invited to Speak at the 2013 ICEAA Conference

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Roberto Perez and Elizabeth Evans will discuss The Forgotten Costs and Uncertainty Analysis within the DoD Acquisition Environment

Cask Helping Move Cost Estimation Forward for the DoD

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March 26, 2013 – Released on March 25th by Kira N. Waxer, Naval Postgraduate School Public Affairs - The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) campus in Monterey, Calif., working jointly with the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), will graduate its first group of 24 students …

Cost Growth in DoD Programs is Detrimental to Mission Accomplishment

Cost overruns in Department of Defense (DoD) acquisition programs are a detriment to overall DoD mission accomplishment because funding that must be realigned to support program cost overruns necessarily has to be taken from other programs.

Numerous studies have shown that once a program is 20% complete the cost performance index rarely, if ever, improves and in most cases only worsens. In addition, GAO has reported that 40% of Nunn-McCurdy Breaches occurred after a production decision has been made. (more…)