Early Stage Affordability Assessment Tool Development Navy SBIR FY2009.1 Sol No.: Navy SBIR FY2009.1 Topic No.: N091-044 Topic Title: Early Stage Affordability Assessment Tool Development Proposal No.: N091-044-1549 Firm: Galorath Incorporated 100 North Sepulveda Blvd. Suite 1801 El Segundo, California 90245 Contact: Lee Fischman Phone: (310) 365-6570 Web Site: www.galorath.com Abstract: Early stage naval costing is a very difficult process, owing to the complexity of naval systems, immaturity of technologies, requirements and design volatility, and a challenged industrial base. Despite or even due to this, an integrated approach is desired that can capture both the costs and various benefits of competing ship concepts, from acquisition through operations and sustainment, from directly within the Navy's software-driven design platform. Galorath Incorporated intends to develop an intelligent interface between a configurable set of cost models and Navy design and concept tools. The connection will facilitate automated costing not only with Galorath's widely used SEER Hardware and Manufacturing cost systems, but by any costing approach, including ones already in use. Analysts will be enabled with access to sophisticated and appropriately chosen cost estimates directly from within their core ship concept and design platform, consistent with the inclusive design philosophy of those tools. Benefits:  Naval acquisition professionals can gain an earlier understanding of costs during concept development.  An integrated costing capability will improve analysis of alternatives.  An intelligent cost interface with LEAPS will permit LEAPS user to take advantage of relatively automated costing.  An improved ability to integrate SEER and other cost tools with third party design applications will enable parametric costing to reach deep into the concept and design process, with subsequent benefit to industry. Return