Cost Benefit Analyst

Apogee Solutions, a Woman-Owned Small Business, is seeking a Cost Benefit Analyst to support the Analysis Division within the Army Futures Command s Capability Development Integration Directorate (CDID) at the Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) Centers of Excellence (CoE) at Fort Leonard Wood. Qualified candidates must be a U.S. citizen and possess an active DOD SECRET clearance.

The Cost Benefit Analyst will be responsible for providing cost and effectiveness analysis in the form of Analysis of Alternatives (AoA), Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA), and Benefit-Cost Ratio (BCA). The Cost Benefit Analyst is responsible for supporting the CDID as it explores solutions to significant warfighting challenges confronting today s Army and the Future Army.

The Cost Benefit Analyst will:

• Perform a variety of analysis, including AoA, CBA, and BCA in support of the CDID.
• Occasionally serve as the lead analyst in the conduct of C-BA in support of the development of Capability Development Documents (CDD), Capability Development Document-Updates (CDD-U), Legacy Capability Production Documents (CPD), and Force Design Updates (FDU).
• Provide in-house functions for identifying relevant categories of benefits and costs, data sources, methods, analysis techniques, areas of application, and interpretation for policy guidance and procedures relating to costs benefit analysis.
• Analyze C-BAs to ensure the requirements and framing analysis, facts, constraints, limitations, assumptions, cost factors, and conclusions of an initiative are supported by sound analysis.
• Assist in the overall conduct of the AoA with a primary focus on the conduct of cost analysis in support of AoA for ACAT II and ACAT III AoAs.
• Analyze BCAs to ensure the starting conditions are consistent with approved requirements or guidance, and that facts, constraints, limitations, assumptions, cost factors, and conclusions of an initiative are supported by sound analysis.
• Review and analyze data, estimates, and reports such as system performance analysis, quantity estimates, Acquisition Program Baselines, Selection Acquisition Reports, and Cost Factors to ensure correct format, technical accuracy, trade-off considerations, and compliance with required standards.
• Analyze C-BAs, BCAs, and AoAs to ensure that the conclusions, facts, assumptions, costs of an initiative, and recommended solutions used by Army senior leaders and other decision makers, are supported by sound analysis.
• Ensure CBA efforts are property directed and assume technical responsibility for the interpretation and presentation of analytical findings and conclusions; present analyses to the Futures and Concepts Center (FCC), other CDIDs, and senior leaders.
• Independently analyze unique problems and determine logical and appropriate analytical and non-analytical solutions and apply those solutions towards feasible recommendation.
• Assist in the development of analytic best practice policy and guidance in the conduct of C-BAs, BCAs, and AoAs in support of FCC and the other CDIDs at TRADOC CoEs.
• Formulate alternative courses of action, concepts or strategies applying appropriate methodologies to analyze cost/benefit alternatives and compare them.
• Determine and assess the cost implications of new technology, new equipment, new force structures, or new operating and maintenance concepts as well as determine the cost required for a given level of training or operational activity.
• Develop the cost/resources required to develop, test, produce, procure, train, operate, maintain, replace, or eliminate units, forces, systems, functions, and equipment.

Required Experience:

• U.S. Citizen with an active DOD SECRET clearance with eligibility for a TOP SECRET clearance
• Bachelor s degree in Operations Research OR at least 24 semester hours in a combination of operations research, mathematics, probability, statistics, mathematical logic, science, or subject-matter course demonstrating substantial competence in college-level mathematics or statistics; at least 3 of the 24 semester hours must have been in calculus or equivalent (desired)
• Minimum of 2 years experience in the areas of AoA, CBA, and BCA and demonstrated knowledge in analytical methods
• Ability to provide quality oversight of multiple analysis projects simultaneously