Maj Gregory Brown, Instructor

Captain Gregory E. Brown is an Instructor of Financial Management for the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) School of Systems and Logistics at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB), Ohio.  As an instructor, he develops and teaches continuing education courses in Financial Management, Cost Analysis, and Should Cost.

Prior to AFIT, Captain Brown served in multiple cost analysis and cost estimating positions across the Air Force Lifecycle Management Center, most recently serving as the Cost Analysis Chief for the Fighters and Bombers Directorate.  In addition to his acquisition experience, he has prior operations & maintenance (O&M) financial management experience as a Financial Services Officer and Deputy Budget Officer, and has deployed as a J-8 Director (Comptroller) for an overseas contingency Joint Task Force.

Courses Taught

QMT 290, Integrated Cost Analysis

QMT 490, Current Topics in Cost Estimating

Areas of Interest & Consulting

Parametric and Nonparametric Cost Modeling

Cost Risk/Uncertainty Modeling

Subject Matter Expert (SME) Elicitation Techniques

Education

2018 Graduate Certificate, Applied Statistics, Penn State University, College Park, Pennsylvania

2015 Master of Science, Cost Analysis, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio

2009 Bachelor of Science, Business-Finance, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado

2009 Bachelor of Arts, Economics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado

Publications

Delineating operating and support costs in aircraft platforms. Defense Acquisition Research Journal, 25(3), 264–287, Garrett O’Hanlon, Jonathan D. Ritschel, Edward D. White, and Gregory E. Brown, 2018.

How Overconfident is the Expert? Accounting for Bias in Cost Estimates. ICEAA World, Gregory E. Brown, Summer 2018.

Why Expert Opinion Still Matters.  ICEAA World, Gregory E. Brown, Fall/Winter 2017.

Measuring the Increasing Relevance of Cost Estimating through Text Analytics, ICEAA World, Gregory E. Brown, Summer 2017.

Simplifying an Estimating Problem: Channeling Enrico Fermi, ICEAA World, Gregory E. Brown, Spring 2017.

An Investigation of Nonparametric Data Mining Techniques for Acquisition Cost Estimating, Defense Acquisition Research Journal, 24(2), 302-332, Gregory E. Brown and Edward D. White, 2017.

Using Pre-Milestone B Data to Predict Schedule Duration for Defense Acquisition Programs, Journal of Cost Analysis and Parametrics, 9(2), 112–126, Christopher A. Jimenez, Edward D. White, Gregory E. Brown, Jonathan D. Ritschel, Brandon M. Lucas, and Michael J. Seibel, 2016.

Time Phasing Aircraft R&D using the Weibull and Beta Distributions, Journal of Cost Analysis and Parametrics, 8(3), 150–164, Gregory E. Brown, Edward D. White, Jonathan D. Ritschel, and Michael J. Seibel, 2015.