This opportunity seeks innovative research and development to advance acquisition cost data, analytics, and estimating capabilities for the Department of the Air Force. The goal is to modernize integrated cost datasets, databases, analytical methods, and decision-support tools that improve the accuracy, consistency, timeliness, and defensibility of cost estimates. These capabilities are intended to support budget trade-space analysis, cost and schedule risk assessment, and strategic planning decisions. Offerors should explain how their proposed research advances the state of the art and strengthens the Department’s ability to evaluate competing investments and quantify uncertainty.