Functional Area Certification Standards

Functional Area Certification Standards
BUSINESS COST ESTIMATING (Advanced)
(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	BCE 2500 Cost Assessment Data Enterprise (CADE) 201 BCE 3000 Advanced Cost Estimating (CLRM)
Experience	At least 6 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 BCE 2060V Applied Risk and Uncertainty Analysis (VILT) BCE 2160 Application of Operating and Support Cost BCE 2300V Applied Software Cost Estimating (VILT) BFM 0370 Essentials of Defense Working Capital Funds CBCE 001 Software Cost Estimation Credential Interdisciplinary ACQ 0150 Middle Tier of Acquisition ACQ 1650 Defense Acquisition of Services ACQ 2020 Intermediate Systems Acquisition, Part A ACQ 2030 Intermediate Systems Acquisition, Part B (CLRM) ALD 0040 Five Dimensions of Leadership ALD 0050 VUCA Leadership ALD 0060 Leading-Managing-Contributing ALD 0070 Growing as an Acquisition Leader CLC 104 Analyzing Profit or Fee CLE 078 Software Acquisition for the Program Office Workforce (SAPOW) CLM 058 Critical Thinking EXE 4000V Problem Solving for Tomorrow's Defense Leaders (VILT) PMT 0130 Work-Breakdown Structure PMT 0140 Team Management and Leadership

Notes:

2 A "(CLRM)" following a course title indicates the course is delivered as Classroom offering.
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 Classroom (CLRM) version of the course. For example, LOG 211V is acceptable in lieu of LOG 211. A separate concept card is available at: https://icatalog.dau.edu/icatalog_home.aspx