Historical Cost Growth of Completed Weapon System Programs

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  • Historical Cost Growth of Completed Weapon System Programs Book Detail

  • Author : Mark V. Arena
  • Release Date : 2006
  • Publisher : Rand Corporation
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 74
  • ISBN 13 : 0833039253
  • File Size : 16,16 MB
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Historical Cost Growth of Completed Weapon System Programs by Mark V. Arena PDF Summary

Book Description: This report is one of a series from a RAND Project AIR FORCE project, "The Cost of Future Military Aircraft: Historical Cost Estimating Relationships and Cost Reduction Initiatives." The purpose of the project is to improve the tools used to estimate the costs of future weapon systems. It focuses on how recent technical, management, and government policy changes affect cost. This report focuses on the accuracy of cost estimates. For our analysis, we used a very specific sample of Selected Acquisition Report (SAR) data, namely only programs that are complete or are nearly so. The analysis indicates a systematic bias toward underestimating the costs and substantial uncertainty in estimating the final cost of a weapon system. In contrast to the previous literature, the cost growth was higher than previously observed. We also found few correlations with cost growth, but observed that programs with longer duration had greater cost growth and electronics programs tended to have lower cost growth. Although there were some differences in the mean cost growth factors among the military departments, the differences were not statistically significant. While newer programs appear to have lower cost growth, this trend appears to be due to factors other than acquisition policies.

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