PRICE US Symposium Update

True Program Success 2005, March 23-25, Tampa, FL

Deadline for early registration is January 31, 2005

• Half-Day Workshops on EVM and Estimating ERP Systems Added to Agenda
• Earn 2.0 CEUs Toward Your Professional Development for Attending

Join industry luminaries and your peers for 3 days of insights, strategies, and real-life examples on deploying affordability management solutions. Learn more and register today!

"Creating Early Concept Cost Models" Next INSightPLUS Product Forum

Part of FREE bi-monthly Webinar series Powered by PRICE Research

Gain insight to establishing validated and verified historical project data, identify cost drivers, regress meaningful Cost Estimating Relationships (CERs) for conceptual early designs, and implement a high-level cost model using TruePlanning®. The techniques used in this forum will be transferable and equally applicable to organizations wishing to develop their own cost models or implement existing models. Attendees will be able to establish high-level summary cost, make predictions at the concept phase, and utilize platform-specific performance parameters (known as cost drivers) relevant to the system type.
Reserve your seat today!

PRICE Systems Helping Military Families Through Fisher House™

PRICE Systems has exceeded the $500 mark in donations raised for the Fisher House™ Foundation, a not-for-profit organization that provides unique services to America's military families in times of need. The foundation's namesake program, Fisher House, alone provides a vital humanitarian need to 8,500 families annually during periods of hospitalization for unexpected illness, disease or injury.

Click here for more information about Fisher House and why PRICE Systems encourages you to join in their support.

PRICE Systems "Connected" On DAU ACC Web Site

PRICE Systems is proud to announce its active participation on the Acquisition Community Connection (ACC) Web site hosted by Defense Acquisition University (DAU). DAU facilitates Department of Defense acquisition learning processes, knowledge sharing and Performance Learning Model (PLM). The ACC site is DAU's publicly accessible, collaborative Community of Practice (CoP) knowledge sharing system to provide the DoD acquisition workforce with anytime anywhere job support aids such as authoritative policy and process documents, templates, examples, lessons learned, automated tools, success stories, and networking opportunities with experts at DAU and in the field. ACC is where the acquisition community shares knowledge. PRICE Systems clearly has valuable knowledge to share.

Click here to access Acquisition Community Connection Web Site

Virtual Cost Engineering Studio to Aid SMEs

PRICE Systems is partnering in a European Union (EU) initiative to launch an Internet-based cost estimating service. The project, Virtual Cost Engineering Studio (V-CES), will be especially beneficial to business planning and cost management in small to medium enterprises (SMEs). On the macro level, V-CES will help to achieve tighter OEM-supplier integration and stronger business synergies.

Click here for more information about the V-CES European initiative and benefits.

Training Curriculum: February-March 2005

Public Product Training
02/07: PRICE H - Hardware Project Estimating & Control (5 Days, Mt. Laurel, NJ)
02/07: True S - Software Project Planning & Control (5 Days, Mt. Laurel, NJ)
03/14: PRICE HL - The Hardware Lifecycle (5 Days, United Kingdom)

Technical Workshops (at PRICE US Symposium)
03/25: Earned Value Management (FREE ½ Day, Tampa, FL)
03/25: Estimating ERP Systems (FREE ½ Day, Tampa, FL)

New Courses
Software Project Planning and Control with True COCOMO II (2 Days)
This course is being tailored for on-site agency and contractor training

For additional details, please contact:
Katherine Richardson, 1.856.608.7206
katherine.richardson@pricesystems.com