BOEHM CSSE

Center for Systems and Software Engineering


COCOMO Forum 2025

This Forum is co-sponsored by The Aerospace Corporation and Unison Cost Engineering. This is our first bi-coastal hybrid event (online and in person). This year’s focus is on the role of new technologies in cost estimation

Topics

  • Workforce development, turnover, and training challenges (e.g., generational communication, experience gap).
  • Coping with lack of knowledge among younger engineers in cost modeling – a cultural influence from senior engineers mentoring younger engineers.
  • Measurement and cost estimating for Digital Engineering and MBE projects.
  • Overall challenges to measuring and estimating the cost of different development paradigms (e.g., MBE, Agile, and DevOps).
  • The role of AI and Machine Learning in building cost estimates and measurements.
  • New or modified size and/or cost drivers to estimate software development effort in response to changing development processes and environments/tools (e.g., Agile and DevOps).
  • Measuring size/cost/schedule impacts from cybersecurity requirements.
  • Cloud services measurement and cost estimation for development and sustainment.

Program Schedule

(TBD)

Submission

Please submit a 1-3 paragraph abstract along with two author biographies: one consisting of 2 sentences and the other in paragraph form.

Important Dates

August 16, 2025 Paper submission deadline
September 9, 2025 Acceptance notification
September 15 – 30, 2025 Early bird registration
October 1 – 31, 2025 Regular registration
November 4 – 6, 2025 Conference dates

Location

West Coast: 200 N Aviation Blvd, El Segundo, CA @Aerospace

East Coast: 8444 Westpark Dr, Suite 920, McLean, VA @Unison

Ticketing

Details Price Qty
Virtual Participation $0.00 USD  
In-person Participation (includes 1-Year Membership) $150.00 USD  

  • COCOMO Forum 2025
     November 4, 2025 – November 6, 2025
     8:00 am – 5:00 pm