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Our Strength: Affordability / Best Value Methodology
· Taught at Defense Acquisition University
· Easily incorporated into DoD / Commercial proposals
· Received single highest proposal score from USN Source Selection Board for $100M+ program
· Works from Systems of Systems decision level to detailed technology insertion or modification / enhancement decisions
FTI provides a structured approach and supporting tools to conduct cost effectiveness analyses -
· Starts with Warfighter capabilities and priorities; assures all are measurable
· Integrates qualitative / quantitative assessments
· Provides systems engineering decomposition to decision-making process; self-documenting
· Performs Cost As an Independent Variable (CAIV) analyses (e.g., systems alternatives analysis)
· Provides sensitivity analyses of key influence factors
· Links decision to Government / community-accepted data
· Combines cost, performance, risk and schedule to determine affordability / best value
· Provides trade space visualization
FTI’s infrastructure provides access and insight into community-accepted sources of information-
· Integration of Government community accepted databases/models; integrates contractor models/data
· Simple graphical user interfaces
· Sensitivity analyses
· Collaborative environment; assuring all elements of economic trade space (R&D, Production, Future O&S, O&S Savings) considered
· Comparison of parts obsolescence strategies
FTI supports Business Case Analyses, Proposal Preparation and Investment Analyses by providing
· Identification of high cost systems
· Calculation of return-on-investment
· Cost Reduction Strategies (Reduction in Total Ownership Costs)
· Economic justification for best value alternatives
· Facilitates price-to-win analysis | 
