Workforce Cost Realism Assessment Report Release

David J. Berteau
Senior Adviser and Director, CSIS Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group

In a time of budgetary strain, the U.S. government must have repeatable, verifiable, and data driven mechanisms for making decisions and understanding their resource implications. Industry and experts have voiced concerns over whether DoD’s insourcing initiatives and cost estimation methodology meet these requirements. The Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group assessed DoD’s current policy and practices, and proposes an alternative methodology with an emphasis on fully burdened costs. This event will present the findings of the report.