Functional Area Certification Standards

Functional Area Certification Standards
BUSINESS COST ESTIMATING (Practitioner)
(See Notes at the Bottom)

Core Certification Standards (required for DAWIA certification)

Education	Operations Research degree required or 24 semester hours in combination of operations research, mathematics, probability, statistics, mathematical logic, science, or subject-matter courses requiring substantial competency in college-level mathematics or statistics. At least 3 of the 24 semester hours must have been in calculus.
Training	ACQ 1010 Fundamentals of Systems Acquisition Management BUS 1100 Business Essentials BCE 1000 Fundamentals of Cost Estimating BCE 0010 Introduction to Cost Modeling BCE 1700 Cost Assessment Data Enterprise (CADE) 101 BCE 1710 FlexFiles 101 BCE 2000V Intermediate Cost Estimating
Experience	At least 4 years of acquisition experience in cost estimating and serving a program office, PEO, Service/Defense agency level, or supporting a program that reports to a Service Acquisition Executive (SAE)
Assessment	None required
Certification Currency	80 hours Continuous Learning (CL) every 2 years – with an acquisition and/or leadership focus. CL guidelines: >50 hours of course work pertaining to Acquisition, >20 hours of leadership training

Functional/Interdisciplinary Developmental Recommendations
Assignment Type	Opportunities
Cost Estimator	Functional Area CLB 025 Total Ownership Cost CLB 026 Forecasting Techniques CLB 029 Rates CLB 030 Data Collection and Sources CLB 031 Time Phasing Techniques CLB 033 Databases for the Cost Estimate CLB 034 Probability Trees CLB 038 Comparative Analysis CLB 039 Cost Estimation Terminology Interdisciplinary ACQ 0030 Overview of Acquisition Ethics ACQ 0040 Ethics Training ACQ 0061 Independent Government Cost Estimate (IGCE) for Services Acquisition ACQ 3700V Acquisition Law ALD 0010 Mastering the Strategic Moment ALD 0020 Mindfulness ALD 0030 Professionalism ALD 0090 Communication CLE 001 Value Engineering CLE 035 Introduction to Probability and Statistics CLE 041 Software Reuse CLE 076 Introduction to Agile Software Acquisition EVM 101 Fundamentals of Earned Value Management LOG 0050 Developing a Life Cycle Sustainment Plan (LCSP)

Notes:

2 An "(R)" following a course title indicates the course is delivered as instructor-led/resident-based instruction.
21 If a virtual instructor-led version of a course is available, the course number is noted by the “V” after the course ID. The “V” course is acceptable in lieu of the (R) version of the course. For example, ACQ 2030V is acceptable in lieu of ACQ 2030. A separate concept card is available at: https://icatalog.dau.edu/icatalog_home.aspx