He's hired 3, 000 new technical staff and is schooling them in the finer points of procurement, cost estimation and reserve classification.

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From there, he worked in one of Puritan's factories with pattern makers and sewers, and he also learned the art of cost estimation.

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Although the Pentagon has hundreds of analysts engaged in cost estimation, it is a rare weapons program that does not end up greatly exceeding expected costs.

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