ACEIT Tools

Additional features for best practice checks, libraries and more

Session Analyzer
Session Analyzer
Calculates and reviews your ACE session and reports potential problems and recommends best practices

Librarian
Librarian
A powerful tool for building custom methodology and inflation libraries which can be accessed seamlessly from ACE

Inflation Utility
Inflate costs in Excel using the system inflation databases delivered with ACEIT

ACEITAdmin
ACEIT Admin
Modify ACEIT settings such as your default paths and license string

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Session Analyzer

The Session Analyzer is one of the applications in the Automated Cost Estimating Integrated Tools (ACEIT). The Session Analyzer scans your ACE session and identifies potential problems that could lead to unexpected numerical results. It makes sure that good ACE modeling practices have been implemented. After scanning the session, you can generate a report that provides detailed information on potential problems in the ACE session.

The session analyzer can run the following tests:

- Base Year - Verifies that cost results do not change when base year of the session is changed.
- Units - Verifies that cost results do not change when units of the session are changed.
- Add Leading Fiscal Years - Verifies that cost results do not change when years are added to the beginning of the session.
- Add Trailing Fiscal Years - Verifies that cost results do not change when years are added to the end of the session.
- Undefined Variables - Verifies that there are no variables that have the words "User Defined" in the WBS/CES Description, have a blank value and are being used by an equation in the session.
- Yearly Gap/Overlap by Phase - Verifies that no zero-cost years occur between years that have costs.
- Sunk Cost - Verifies that no sunk costs are entered in a future year.
- Baseline Override - Verifies that there are no overrides in the Baseline case.
- Army CES Appropriation - Verifies that appropriation terms entered are appropriate for the CES number.
- Army CES External Code - Verifies that External Codes correspond to the CES number.
- Army CES RI$K - Verifies that confidence levels for items marked with CES numbers are within reason.
- RI$K CV Test - Verifies that the Coefficient of Variation (CV) for WBS level 1 and 2 elements are within reason.
- RI$K Correlation - Verifies that correlation has been defined in the session.

If test failures are found, the Session Analyzer will provide warnings. Session Analyzer automatically generates a Report that lists all the rows where the selected tests failed.
Librarian

Librarian is a powerful application that lets any user or site build and maintain their own Inflation Indices and CER Libraries. With this tool a user can build a library of inflation tables or cost methodologies and data sources/references.

A key feature of the Librarian is to allow users to create unique inflation indices for their program, project, or organization that can be accessed by any ACEIT software application. Additionally, these user-created indices can be stored in a custom database and are portable; they can be accessed from multiple ACE sessions and can easily be shared with other ACE users.

Annually, the latest inflation indices from all military services and other federal agencies are obtained by the ACEIT Software Support group. These indices are put into the ACEIT system inflation database which can then be downloaded from this website by registered users.

Another key feature of the Librarian is the ability to create libraries of estimating methodologies or source references. These custom libraries appear within ACE and allows users to search and incorporate desired methodologies and documentation into their ACE session. The Librarian is a powerful tool for the analyst when used in conjunction with CO$TAT.
Inflation Utility

The ACEIT Inflation Utility is an Excel Add-in program that allows you to inflate costs in an Excel spreadsheet. The inflation utility uses the same database of inflation indices that ACE uses. You can choose either the ACE system database, which contains OSD rates for all the services, or a user-created custom database, which contains custom indices entered using the Inflation Editor.

The utility can convert costs from base year (constant) dollars in one year to base year dollars in another year, base year dollars to then year (current) dollars, then year dollars to base year dollars, and then year dollars to then year dollars.

The ACEIT Inflation Utility is included with the ACEIT application suite.
ACEIT Admin

The ACEIT Admin is an administrator module for ACEIT. It allows you to determine the location of files and databases, repair files, view and edit license information and copy example files.