Open AccessDepartment of Energy Environmental Management cost infrastructure development program: Cost analysis requirements
Author(s) -
W.R. Custer,
C.D. Messick
Publication year - 1996
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/219407
Subject(s) - cost estimate , process (computing) , cost reduction , cost database , cost accounting , authorization , cost analysis , energy management , risk analysis (engineering) , environmental economics , computer science , business , operations management , operations research , energy (signal processing) , engineering , systems engineering , database , economics , accounting , computer security , mathematics , marketing , operating system , statistics
This report was prepared to support development of the Department of Energy Environmental Management cost infrastructure -- a new capability to independently estimate and analyze costs. Currently, the cost data are reported according to a structure that blends level of effort tasks with product and process oriented tasks. Also. the budgetary inputs are developed from prior year funding authorizations and from contractor-developed parametric estimates that have been adjusted to planned funding levels or appropriations. Consequently, it is difficult for headquarters and field-level activities to use actual cost data and technical requirements to independently assess the costs generated and identify trends, potential cost savings from process improvements, and cost reduction strategies