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    • Predictors of successful outcomes of U.S. Coast Guard construction contracts 

      Evans, Dennis C. (Dennis Christopher) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
      The U. S. federal government contracts over five hundred billion dollars in goods and services each year. Traditionally, these contracts are awarded on the basis of a combination of a contractor's proposed cost, quality, ...

    • Transforming the DoD test and evaluation enterprise to enable unmanned autonomous systems of systems 

      Cowart, Karl K., 1975- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
      Many US Department of Defense (DoD) systems operate within a systems of systems construct, which present many challenges and will be ever increasing for test and evaluation of unmanned autonomous systems of systems. ...

    • Prediction markets for cost and risk assessment 

      Aggarwal, Taroon (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
      Several temporal and political factors can sometimes limit the effectiveness of traditional methods of project tracking and cost estimation. A large organization is susceptible to internal and external risks that are ...