Download or read book Contractor Data Cost Estimating for Fixed Wing Aircraft written by Willis Joseph Bruns (CAPT, USAF.) and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Methods of Estimating Fixed wing Airframe Costs Volume I Revised written by Luis R. Sanchez and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planning Research Corporation, has conducted a series of studies to develop techniques for estimating the cost of fixed-wing aircraft. The primary objective of these studies is to develop techniques suitable for use in program planning, cost-effectiveness studies, and evaluation of contractor proposals. A further objective is to provide insight into problems of cost analysis and to suggest an analytical methodology for developing estimating relationships that will be useful to analysts in the military departments in preparing estimates of cost for new weapons system programs. (Author).

Download or read book DOD Needs to Provide More Credible Weapon Systems Cost Estimates to the Congress written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Why Has the Cost of Fixed wing Aircraft Risen written by Mark V. Arena and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 2008 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report explores why, in recent decades, military fixed-wing aircraft costs have escalated beyond the rates of commonly used inflation indices, examining both economy-driven factors that the Services cannot control and customer-driven ones that they can. The authors found that this trend of cost increases is true for all types of aircraft--patrol, cargo, trainer, bomber, attack, fighter, and electronic warfare.

Download or read book Aircraft Contractor Logistics Support written by Eilanna S. Price and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Air Force has used Contractor Logistics Support (CLS) for off-the-shelf or commercial derivative aircraft since 1948. This thesis traces the evolution of CLS, discusses the current USAF aircraft utilizing this support concept, and compares eight CLS contracts. An aircraft characteristics data base is developed for the E-4, C-9A, C-12A, T-43, KC-10, UV-18B, T-41, and C-20A. CLS contract costs are used as a dependent variable to provide an example of a parametric procedure that can be used to estimate CLS costs on proposed aircraft. Analogy as an alternate procedure is suggested. Recommendations on improving the CLS cost estimating in the future are presented. (Author).

Download or read book Cost Estimating Relationships for Fixed Wing Aircraft written by William Joel Ditto and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Cost Estimating Relationship (CER) for Fixed Wing Aircraft was developed to estimate the unit cost of a twin engine, commercial, turbo-prop aircraft procured off the shelf. The Army has a limited fixed wing capability and most of this capability is procured in a commercial environment instead of through a typical rotor wing procurement cycle. The list price in the commercial market includes both engines and standard avionics, while in a typical Government rotor wing procurement these items are Government Furnished Equipment. Therefore, this CER was developed using the parameter of empty weight and aircraft commercial list price. The data collected was analyzed using the Statistical Analysis System (SAS) on the AVSCOM Scientific and Engineering Computer System. The program developed is a linear regression of the form (y = a + bx), and the results are shown in the report.

Download or read book Cost Estimation of Contractor Provided Supply Support for Aviation Simulators written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study develops cost estimating relationships (CER) to estimate the cost of supply support for the maintenance of aircraft simulators. These CER's will be used in the Contractor Operation and Maintenance of Simulators (COMS) environment. The analysis techniques used to develop and validate these relationship include linear regression (simple and multiple), analysis of univariate distributions, simulation modeling, and linear optimization modeling. The regression analysis concludes that no useful CER is present in the cost elements represented by the sample of data gathered from actual simulator operations. There is, however, a useful CER present in another smaller set of data derived from the successful bids of eight contractors. These submissions were for maintenance with and without supply support. A simulation model was constructed to provide an independent cost estimate for use with the maintenance CER developed above. Analysis of univariate distributions was used to transform maintenance data from an operational simulator suite for use in the verification of the simulation model. Finally, an optimization model formulation is recommended for further investigation.

Download or read book Cost Analysis for Aircraft System Test and Evaluation Empirical Survey Data Structuring and Parametric Modeling written by Robert W. Fonnesbeck and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is an increasing requirement from high levels within the Government that the Navy's aircraft cost estimators and analysts provide explicit estimates for the sub-elements of Aircrat System Test and Evaluation efforts. The data required to produce more accurate and detailed estimates represent lower levels in the Aircraft Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) than previously available. This is a two volume thesis. This volume examines the WBS and Contractor Cost Data Reporting (CCDR) system with a description of current reporting practices and implementation shortcomings. Recommended courses of action to improve reporting requirements and thereby improve data quality and cost estimates are proposed. Major cost drivers for AST & E, from both the perspective of Defense Contractors and Military Flight Test Centers, are discussed. Keywords: Theses; Financial management; Materiel acquisition.

Download or read book Cost Analysis for Aircraft System Test and Evaluation Empirical Survey Data Structuring and Parametric Modeling written by William J. Foster and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is an increasing requirement from high levels within the Government that the Navy's aircraft cost estimators and analysts provide explicit estimates for the sub-elements of Aircraft System Test and Evaluation (AST & E) efforts. The data required to produce more accurate and detailed estimates represent lower levels in the Aircraft Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) than previously available. This is a two volume thesis. Beginning in this document (Volume II), a relational data base system is introduced to more easily evaluate AST & E cost elements and physical/performance characteristics. A Contractor Flight Test cost estimating relationship (CER) is developed through step-wise multiple regression analysis of data gathered from Defense Contractors and Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR). Keywords: These; Financial management; Materiel acquisition; Parametric methods.

Download or read book Military Construction Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2013 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Contract Pricing written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Examination of the Relationship Between Usage and Operating and support Costs of U S Air Force Aircraft written by Eric J. Unger and published by Technical Report (RAND). This book was released on 2009 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Systematically examining the empirical relationship between multiple U.S. Air Force systems' expenditures, flying hours, and fleet sizes, this research suggests a more sophisticated way to think about Air Force costs than is currently used. The report discusses prior research on cost-per-flying-hour calculations--i.e., the practice of multiplying projected flying hours by a cost-per-hour factor in certain segments of the budgetary process. This report looks across Air Force mission designs (systems) and estimates general, historical relationships between expenditure levels and flying hours. A fixed-plus-variable cost structure is estimated with expenditures neither increasing nor decreasing in proportion to flying hours. The author concludes with the policy implications of his findings, noting that current Air Force budgeting approaches likely overestimate funding needs when flying hours are increasing and underestimate needs when flying hours are decreasing.

Download or read book Cost Estimating and Contract Pricing written by Thomas F. McNeill and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Weapon System Costing Methodology for Aircraft Airframes and Basic Structures Volume III Cost Data Base written by R. E. Kenyon and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the cost data used as the basis for developing the trade cost estimating technique for aerodynamic surfaces. Other data that has become available in the course of the study is also presented. Raw data and organized data are presented. An ultimate objective of the study with respect to the cost data base is to present back-up data for each individual CER, including both trade study and system costing relationships. The cost trend data that is included was produced under an amendment to the contract. Its intent was to provide a data base for cost estimate evaluation. (Author).

Download or read book Annual Department of Defense Bibliography of Logistics Studies and Related Documents written by United States. Defense Logistics Studies Information Exchange and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Military Construction Appropriations for 1981 Justification of the budget estimates Active Forces written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Military Construction Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 2136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Military Construction Appropriations for 1992 DOD base realignment and closure budget justifications written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Military Construction Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: