Cost Analysis and Acquisition Support

The Cost Analysis and Acquisition Support (CAAS) service area is a cornerstone of mission-critical program success, delivering trusted expertise, data-driven insights, and robust tools to provide realistic and defensible analyses to our customers for over 40 years. Our culture fosters critical thinking, proactivity, camaraderie, and dedication to personal, professional, and organizational growth.

By combining analytical rigor with in-depth program knowledge, CAAS Analysts serve as trusted advisors, guiding decisionmakers through resource-oriented programmatic challenges. We avoid static, black-box models, choosing instead to research and analyze program history, anticipate future requirements, normalize collected data to meet customer-defined needs, and refine our custom models, delivering accurate and timely estimates.

In a dynamic acquisition landscape, CAAS transforms traditional cost analysis by providing technically excellent, high-value results faster. Our proactive and efficient methodology ensures acquisition support that drives program success.

  • Our approach to cost analysis integrates data, methods, and models to dynamically address resourcing challenges. Our team — comprised of Engineers, Operations Research Analysts, Statisticians, Economists, Mathematicians, and Business Analysts — delves into the complexities of system dynamics and engineering technologies, understanding the driving requirements of a system before conducting quantitative analysis. Whether we are providing direct program office support, independent portfolio oversight, or cost research, this blend of technical expertise and data-driven methodologies enables a superior level of support.

    • Commodity centric estimating expertise

    • Cost Capability Maturity Model (C2M2) implementation

    • Cost analysis requirements description (CARD) development

    • Life cycle cost estimating and modeling

    • Cost and schedule risk analysis and assessments

    • Operations and support analysis

    • Cost estimating trainingDescription text goes here

  • Integrated with our cost analysis offerings is our team’s dedicated acquisition support service, designed to navigate the policies, processes, and resources essential for procuring complex systems. Our acquisition support is critical for organizations seeking to make informed decisions, mitigate risks, and optimize procurement processes through collaboration with multiple stakeholders.

    Our team is trained and experienced in diverse acquisition strategies across various agencies and recent changes to the government acquisition landscape, such as middle tier acquisitions, major capability acquisitions, and the software acquisition pathway within the Adaptive Acquisition Framework across the Department of Defense, as well as the Acquisition Lifecycle Framework across the Department of Homeland Security.

    By applying an analytical approach, our acquisition support focuses on enhancing process efficiencies to drive prompt and successful program acquisitions, whether the focus be on efficiently incorporating stakeholder comments on requirements and proposal documents; delivering an adaptable, dynamic model supporting rapid proposal analysis or negotiations; or transitioning a program from contract award to execution via data-driven baseline reviews and risk identification.

    • Acquisition planning support

    • Market research/analysis

    • Procurement request development

    • Source selection support

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Decision Analysis

Born from Technomics 40+ year history of providing decision analyses that are data based and properly supported by evidence and rationale, the Decision Analysis (DA) service area provides client leadership and decision makers a systematic, objective, and unbiased evaluation of the viable relevant trade space. These analyses enable informed decisions using data-driven approaches, models, and tools, accelerating timelines by reducing rework and ensuring cost-effective solutions from the outset.

  • DA provides clients with a wholistic view of their decision trade space. Key components of our analyses include, a comparison of alternatives, depiction of return on investment, development of mission impacts for various budget scenarios, and program and project affordability. Our Economic Analysis capabilities distill complex analyses down to the required information for leadership to make informed, effective decisions while gaining a full understanding of the operational effectiveness and performance characteristics of a resource investment. These analyses provide decision makers a data-driven, systematic, and objective evaluation of their viable relevant trade space enabling the optimal use of their organization’s limited resources.

  • DA views portfolio analysis not as a tool, a model, or a set of isolated techniques — but as a holistic approach to solving the portfolio management problem. We bring a complete framework that helps organizations understand, structure, and solve the full portfolio management challenge from end to end. Our approach begins with a deep understanding of the real-world constraints and trade-offs decision makers face. We work closely with our clients to define the portfolio context, clarify objectives, understand resource dynamics, and assess uncertainties. From there, we apply a combination of analytical methods, data-driven insights, and structured frameworks tailored to the unique decision environment of each client. Building upon a set of proven frameworks and accelerators, we tailor our solutions to the specific needs, goals, and complexities of each portfolio. The result is a more actionable, more defensible, and more adaptable portfolio strategy, designed not just to produce answers, but to empower decision makers with the insight and flexibility they need to act with confidence.

Data Management and Analytics

The Data Management and Analytics (DMA) service area develops and deploys technological and analytical capabilities to help our clients maximize their data potential. We aim to help clients use existing data to perform rigorous analyses and make actionable decisions. We have a proven track record of implementing the entire data analytics life cycle, from requirements generation to communication and dissemination of analytical results.

Our aim is to implement the entire data life cycle, not just build tools. Partnering with DMA enables clients to better identify risks and opportunities in their programs and materially improve the way they do business.

  • We believe optimal data management solutions are conceived, designed, and implemented by analysts who deeply understand an organization’s needs, structure, assets, and constraints. Our analysts have been instrumental in establishing data solutions for mission-critical oversight organizations through the application of our in-house capabilities in data solutions requirements generation; data management and engineering; and data policy, processes, and operations. We consider both stakeholder and user needs, bridging the gap between developers and end-users.

    We believe effective analytics centers are most effective when built from the ground up. We implement best practices that are tailored to the needs of the organization and its stakeholders, ensuring that our analytics approach remains at the forefront to best support the broader organization. Our capabilities include the following:

    • Data solutions requirements generation

    • Data policy, processes, and operations

    • Data Science/Analytics Center of Excellence implementation

  • We leverage a structured approach to move data through a pipeline, from raw to analysis-ready aggregations. Our Analysts are adept at wrangling data of any format and have proven how powerful both structured and unstructured data can be in filling critical gaps in operational understanding. We prioritize flexibility in the development of structured extract-transform-load processes that can be tailored to a wide range of use cases, building upon custom-developed R packages and Python libraries. Similarly, we are flexible in recommending database and data lake solutions. Our capabilities include the following:

    • Data collection and validation

    • Data pipeline development

    • Database architecture

    • Data lake implementation

  • Our Analysts deliver a wide range of data analytics, spanning performance metrics, optimization modeling, predictive analysis, operations research, and artificial intelligence/machine learning. Our clients rely on our analysis to make real-time decisions, assess mission readiness, and forecast acquisition outcomes. When approaching a new challenge, our team carefully evaluates the data available, IT infrastructure, and use cases before recommending a tool or approach. Our approach to data analytics is intended to avoid stagnation.

    When preparing to share data insights, we prioritize the availability, timeliness, accuracy, and reliability of data. Our methodology ensures that dashboards and other user interaction tools provide tangible value, holding the audience above all. Our capabilities include the following:

    • Data insights/dashboard development

    • Statistical analysis

    • Artificial intelligence/machine learning

    • Operations research

Data-Driven Program Management

The Data-Driven Program Management (DPM) service area delivers data-driven analyses for credible, defensible insights leading to enhanced program outcomes. We transform agency processes, accelerate programmatic direction and optimize performance. 

DPM expertly manages requirements, resources, timelines and budgets ensuring project success. Our analysts partner with stakeholders to understand their challenges and constraints to derive both efficient and effective solutions. We perform the right analysis during each phase of the acquisition lifecycle integrating technical, cost, schedule and risk to assist leadership in optimal resource allocation and execution. We do this by blending expert knowledge across economics, operations research, finance, mathematics and engineering with a culture focused on collaboration, learning and innovation.

  • Our Program Management services enable successful execution aligned with agency objectives and mission needs. Utilizing our data-driven approach to analytics, DPM analysts provide Program and Agency leadership the tools needed to understand their organizational goals, quantify baseline and current performance, identify key areas for improvement, and develop and implement efficiencies to optimize performance. Our tools and techniques ensure leadership has a comprehensive and actionable view of their performance enabling decisions that result in desired outcomes.

    • Strategic Planning

    • Earned Value Management

    • Agile Performance Management

    • Schedule Planning & Analysis

    • Program Performance Management

    • Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution (PPBE) Support

    • Risk Management

  • DPM Engineering services ensure capabilities align with mission needs and are delivered to the warfighter as efficiently as possible​. We enhance established processes and lead integrated product teams through all phases of the acquisition cycle to enable early identification and mitigation of risk. Our engineers leverage quantitative and qualitative analysis to maximize defensibility of high impact technical decisions and enable decision makers to quickly link technical performance to overall program status and health.

    Specialized engineering offerings include:

    • Systems Engineering / Model Based Systems Engineering

    • Cyber Engineering and Risk Management

    • Cyber Policy

    • Test & Evaluation

    • System Security Engineering