9th Annual CECOP Symposium
Call for Abstracts
The Cost Estimating Community of Practice (CECOP) is accepting abstracts for presentation at the 2025 CECOP Symposium. Abstracts that are accepted will need to be made into presentations for delivery at the 2025 CECOP Symposium, from October 28-30, 2025 at Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, NM’
Abstract Submission Deadline: May 14, 2025
Abstracts will be reviewed by the CEAG Council and the 2025 CECOP Symposium Planning Committee. Selections will be based on the CEAG Council’s and planning committee’s determination of pertinence and interest to CECOP. Submissions should be new content to the CECOP Symposium.
For inquiries or abstracts submissions, email CECOP@nnsa.doe.gov.
Important Dates & Deadlines
| Date | Deadline |
| Call for Abstracts | March 7, 2025 |
| Abstracts Due | May 14, 2025 |
| Acceptance Notification | June 13, 2025 |
| Registration Opens | August 1, 2025 |
| Registration Closes | October 1, 2025 |
| Final Presentations Due | October 1, 2025 |
CECOP Symposium
Los Alamos National Laboratory
| CECOP Day | Date |
| Day 1 | Tuesday, October 28 |
| Day 2 | Wednesday, October 29 |
| Day 3 | Thursday, October 30 |
CECOP Registration
| Eligibility | US Citizens |
| Link | Coming soon |
| Password | Coming soon |
8th Annual CECOP Symposium
23-25 July 2024 Albuquerque, NM
The Cost Estimating and Analysis Group (CEAG), in partnership with SNL, held its 8th Annual Cost Estimating Community of Practice (CECOP) Symposium in July 2024. Cost estimators, schedulers, analysts, and other practitioners from across the NSE and government attended the three-day hybrid event, which was live-streamed from Sandia National Laboratories. Keynote speakers included Dr. Daryl J. Hauck, manager of NNSA’s Sandia Field Office, and Charley D. Hunt, Senior Technical Leader for Programmatic Analysis for NASA headquarters. In total, the event showcased more than 30 technical presentations, trainings, and workshops from cost estimating professionals across the nuclear security enterprise and external organizations.
8th Annual CECOP Symposium
July 23-25
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) / Hybrid
Program Book (PDF)Select Presentations
- Practical Steps for adopting AI-enabled Cost Estimating & Augmented Decision-making
- Cost Risk and Uncertainty Analysis
- Cost Reasonableness Review: A Tailorable Approach for Assessing Unique Projects
- What you see is Watt you Get: An NNSA Utility Cost Deep Dive
- Portfolio Analysis Made Effective and Simple
- Threats, Opportunities, & the Risk Process
- GAO Agile Assessment Guide: Applications for Cost Estimating
7th Annual CECOP Symposium
1-2 August 2023
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) / Hybrid
Program Book6th Annual CECOP Symposium
2-3 August 2022
Washington, DC / Hybrid
Program Book (PDF)Select Presentations
- A Quantitative Method for Risk Tracking and EAC Management Through the Project Lifecycle
- B61-12 Life Extension Program Impact Analysis—Data Integration, Analytical Framework, and Outputs
- Capital Acquisition Estimating Framework
- Categorical Variables in NNSA Cost Estimating Relationships
- Curating the Inputs for a Contingency Reserve Calculation
- Escalation for Construction: Sensitivity Analysis Using CSPER-C
- MISE—Multi-Server Integrated Schedule Environment
- Overview of the Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Evaluation (PPBE) Process at NNSA
- Prediction Markets for Programmatic Decision Support
- Quantile Regression for Capital Cost Estimating
- Sandia Infrastructure Investment Planning (SIIP) Process
- Strategic Roadmap for Programmatic Cost Estimating
- Using Linear Programming to Create Optimal Budget Scenarios
- Using Simulation Modeling to Inform Resource Needs
5th Annual CECOP Symposium
3-5 August 2021
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) / Virtual
Program Book (PDF)
Archive (Coming Soon)4th Annual CECOP Symposium
4-6 August 2020
Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) / Virtual
Program Book (PDF)
Archive (Coming Soon)3rd Annual CECOP Symposium
6-7 August 2019
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Program Book (PDF)
Archive (Coming Soon)2nd Annual CECOP Symposium
6-7 November 2018
Nevada National Security Site (NNSS)
Program Book (PDF)
Archive (Coming Soon)1st Annual CECOP Symposium
21-22 March 2017
Washington, DC
Program Book (PDF)
Archive (Coming Soon)