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• The Coast Guard can more effectively manage the currently supported twenty full time equivalents through a competency aligned organization.
• The Coast Guard's current structure, which relies heavily on contracting, hampers cross-program cost comparisons and keeps cost estimators from increasing their subject knowledge. Furthermore, cost estimators often cannot access contractors' models and data.

This Homeland Security Operational Analysis Center report assesses the capabilities of the current Coast Guard cost-estimating workforce; identifies current requirements and current and future demands for cost-estimating services, based on Coast Guard acquisition plans; and recommends staffing and organizational alternatives to achieve flexibility to deal with future requirements.

• Chapter One

  Introduction

• Chapter Two

  Congressional, Government Accountability Office, Department of Homeland Security, and Coast Guard Requirements

• Chapter Three

  Coast Guard Cost-Analysis Capabilities Compared with U.S. Navy

• Chapter Four

  Cost Analysis of Workload Demand

• Chapter Five

  Training and Manning for a Cost-Analysis Function

• Chapter Six

  Alternatives for Fulfilling Demand for Cost-Analysis Services

• Chapter Seven

  Conclusions