Our cost estimating and economic analysis services include:

• Providing a defensible basis for establishing and maintaining a program’s budgetary integrity.
  
• Developing a solid foundation for securing approvals as a program moves from one phase to the next.
  
• Offering a wealth of quantitative information to help assess strategic program options and guide decision making.
  
• Assessing the fiscal impacts of alternative mission options, schedules, acquisition strategies, performance levels, business models and more.
  
• Sharing our technical expertise, knowledge of defense acquisition, and experience across a wide range of defense systems, system architectures and information technology platforms.

The quality of our analysis is recognized at the highest levels of the Department of Defense (DoD) – we have provided successful cost support to more than 125 programs through the DoD Milestone Review Process.

Tecolote cost estimates are a valuable component of successful program management. Our work results in:

• Budgets that stand up to scrutiny and are fully traceable to program requirements.
• Estimates that gain approval from headquarters to efficiently move programs into their next phase of the lifecycle.
• Economic data and analysis that foster confident decision-making processes.
• Results that are trusted to be independent of outside influences.
• Multi-dimensional cost products that represent the work of some of the industry’s best analysts, engineers and economists.

Space Radar Program:

• Tecolote supported the Space Radar (SR) Program restructure with more than 300 "what-if" life-cycle cost excursions that addressed multiple budget cuts, configurations and program acquisition strategy options.
• Tecolote analysts were “by name” requested to accompany the SPD and PEO to brief the Undersecretary of the Air Force on alternative Space Radar acquisition strategies.

NASA International Space Station (ISS):

• Tecolote provided cost and risk analysis support to develop a fully documented independent cost estimate (ICE) with a comprehensive risk analysis for the $36 billion International Space Station (ISS) Program.
• The responsive, dedicated professionalism of the Tecolote Team, and the quality and defensibility of the ISS ICE, provided NASA with the critical information it needed to revise its budget submittal to Congress for the FY03 appropriations cycle.
• Mr. Sean O'Keefe directed that the ISS Program budget be adjusted to match the ISS ICE 80 percent confidence level.

USMC Anti-Armor Weapon System – Heavy (AAWS-H):

• Tecolote supported a USMC Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) to evaluate the Operational Effectiveness (OE), technical performance and Life Cycle Costs (LCC) of existing and emerging missile and launcher technologies to meet USMC AAWS-H requirements.
• Tecolote conducted extensive cost and performance analysis of USMC and vendor-furnished cost and technical data, as well as application of historical and related cost data from analogous missile and launcher programs to model the various alternatives.
• This AoA provided USMC material developers with well-documented and comprehensive justification to propose a best-value solution to the senior USMC decision makers.

Air Force ICBM Program:

• Tecolote developed the Guidance Replacement Program (GRP) Estimate and the Propulsion Replacement Program (PRP) estimates that were defended before the Air Force Cost Analysis Agency (AFCAA) and the Air Force Cost Analysis Improvement Group (AFCAIG).
• Tecolote’s support allowed the ICBM SPO to proceed through the Milestone Decision and begin production.

Tecolote received the NASA Certificate of Significant Accomplishment (3 November 2004) for developing and fostering a collaborative partnership with the Office of Management and Budget, clearly defining expectations across the Agency to achieve an overall rating of “Green” for NASA on the Electronic Government element of the President’s Management Agenda. The certificate was signed by Sean O’Keefe, Administrator, NASA.