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65WX Cost Analysis Officer

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Overview

Cost Analysis Officers plan, organize, and evaluate cost analysis programs that inform decisions supporting daily operations. They analyze information and weapons systems, force structures, and research and technology programs to help optimize Air Force costs.

Core Skills

  • Defense acquisition business case analysis
  • Operational performance evaluation against standards

Civilian Career Paths

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Cost Estimators

Military cost estimation and economic and business case analyses for acquisition programs transfer directly to evaluating product and project costs.

How to prepare: Build a sample product cost estimate in Microsoft Excel using historical cost data, then compare the estimate with actual costs.

What the civilian work involves
  • Collect historical cost data to estimate costs for current or future products.
  • Assess cost effectiveness of products, projects or services, tracking actual costs relative to bids as the project develops.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (2 documents)
  1. DAFOCD, 30 Apr 26: COST ANALYSIS (65WX)

    [1] Specialty Summary section "COST ANALYSIS"; normalized cached text lines 10904-10927; family-level section (65W4, 65W3, 65W1)

    Supports: Defense acquisition business case analysis, Operational performance evaluation against standards, Cost Estimators (O*NET 13-1051.00)

  2. O*NET: Cost Estimators

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Cost Estimators (O*NET 13-1051.00)

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