Download or read book Estimating the Fully Burdened Cost of Fuel for a Naval Aviation Fixed Wing Platform written by Daniel R. Truckenbrod and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis provides the background and motivation for furthering the Fully Burdened Cost of Fuel (FBCF) cost estimating methodology and calculations in the context of a naval aviation fixed wing platform. The FBCF contribution to Total Ownership Cost in the Analysis of Alternatives for Major Defense Acquisition Programs requires steady advancement to meet an October 2011 implementation deadline. Applying OSD guidance and calculator mathematical process facilitates comparison of the additional costs to deliver and protect fuel demanded by the F/A-18E/F aircraft with those added costs for a ship platform. Total costs throughout a realistic operation and support life cycle and applying a notional scenario to the newest calculator demonstrate a range of cost estimating methods. Our conclusions support previous analysis that air refueling contributes significantly to logistics support costs and that investment in fuel conservation technologies and platform endurance can be a strategic opportunity for the Department of Defense and the Department of the Navy. The aircraft FBCF is multiple times higher than the fuel commodity price as compared to the FBCF for ships, which is only fractionally higher than the fuel commodity price. Assured Delivery Price of supplied fuel calculations are complicated for platforms that require multiple refueling support assets.
Download or read book A Cost Estimation of Biofuels for Naval Aviation written by Naval Postgraduate Naval Postgraduate School and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book estimates the cost of biofuel to meet the Department of the Navy's (DON) stated energy objectives, i.e., sailing the Great Green Fleet in 2016 and transitioning to 50 percent alternative fuel by 2020. The first estimate is for the additional cost to operate the Carrier Air Wing (CVW) component of the Great Green Fleet in 2016. A premium to the cost of JP-5 is estimated. A second estimate is made for a CVW operating a six-month deployment with 50 percent biofuel in 2020. A premium was estimated and a sensitivity analysis was conducted to project the required reduction in costs for biofuel from 2012 estimates to reach parity pricing with petroleum fuel by 2020.
Download or read book Evaluating the Impact of the Fully Burdened Cost of Fuel written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis motivates and defines the concept of Fully Burdened Cost of Fuel (FBCF), assesses Department of the Navy Major Defense Acquisition Programs potentially impacted by FBCF estimates and applies an experimental methodology developed by OUSD(AT & L) to estimate and analyze the FBCF of a notional capability. Our analysis shows that there are potentially large variations in energy-related costs (burdens) associated with the required fuel delivery assets, the supporting infrastructure and associated manpower, and the assets providing force protection and security to the fuel delivery assets in both peacetime and operational scenarios. Recommendations for follow on studies are provided.
Download or read book A Cost Estimation of Biofuels for Naval Aviation written by Michael D. Callahan and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis estimates the cost of biofuel to meet the Department of the Navy's (DON) stated energy objectives, i.e., sailing the Great Green Fleet in 2016 and transitioning to 50 percent alternative fuel by 2020. The first estimate is for the additional cost to operate the Carrier Air Wing (CVW) component of the Great Green Fleet in 2016. A premium to the cost of JP-5 is estimated. A second estimate is made for a CVW operating a six-month deployment with 50 percent biofuel in 2020. A premium was estimated and a sensitivity analysis was conducted to project the required reduction in costs for biofuel from 2012 estimates to reach parity pricing with petroleum fuel by 2020.
Download or read book Estimating the Fully Burdened Cost of Fuel Using an Input ouput Model a Micro level Analysis written by Sean R. Dubbs and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2010, the Department of Defense (DoD) spent $1 3.2 billion on fuel purchases, with over 3,000 lives lost in fuel delivery operations between 2003 and 2007. To reduce both of these figures, the DoD is investing in technology to reduce fuel consumption, especially in expeditionary and forward operations. These reductions will cause cascading effects throughout the supply chain. The tools of Input-Output Analysis appear to be a natural fit for determining fuel costs throughout the supply chain and identifying the best ways to improve the efficiency of providing war-fighting capability. A model of the existing portion of the United States Marine Corps supply chain in Afghanistan was built as a proof of concept, along with six scenarios that explore different methods of reducing fuel consumption, to estimate the fuel multiplier for each component in the supply chain. This model was useful in providing insight and a lower bound on the fully burdened cost of fuel within the Afghanistan supply chain. The results of this analysis show that the impact of force protection fuel usage is not as large as previously believed. In some situations, fuel resupply through an airdrop could be a more efficient delivery method than ground transportation. Different methods of achieving reduced fuel consumption have different impacts on the fuel multiplier in the supply chain, thus affecting the short-term planning ability of the operational commander.
Download or read book Navy aviation written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fully Burdened Cost of Fuel Using Input output Analysis written by John W. Hills and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Duncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009 mandates that the Fully Burdened Cost of Fuel, including the total cost of procuring and transporting fuel, infrastructure operating costs, and the cost of force protection for the logistics tail, be applied in trade-off analyses for all Department of Defense systems that create a demand for energy. Using data from the Defense Logistics Agency Energy, this thesis builds a model of its worldwide supply chain for bulk fuels, and uses the principles of input-output analysis to calculate the total cost to deliver three fuel types to each destination in the supply chain. Although the Defense Logistics Agency Energy charges a standard price to each service for bulk fuels, these results show that they incur very different costs, ranging from less than a penny per gallon to over 70 cents per gallon, to deliver to different locations. Given the appropriate data on services' fuel distribution networks, a Department of Defense-wide extension of the Bulk Fuels Distribution Model could be used to replace the current seven-step Fully Burdened Cost of Fuel process with a single step, allowing for less complex and more accurate Fully Burdened Cost of Fuel calculations.
Download or read book A Comparison of the Fully Burdened Cost of Fuel Methodologies Used Across the Department of Defense written by Scott A. Roscoe and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis describes the various Fully Burdened Cost of Fuel (FBCF) methodologies under development across the Department of Defense. A comparison of the Air Force FBCF Calculator and the OSD (AT & L) FBCF Calculator is performed and identifies the similarities and differences between the methodologies to include an analysis of the output of each calculator. Our analysis indicates that while the methodologies used to calculate the FBCF vary among the Services, they share common underlying principles and the FBCF methodologies can produce similar results. Recommendations for follow on studies are provided.
Download or read book Naval Aviation Budgeting written by Edward G. Keating and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, most Cost Adjustment Sheets (CASs) have increased the Navy's Flying Hour Program (FHP) budget. They also have been far more utilized by the F/A-18 program than by program offices for most other types of naval aircraft. RAND assessed the contribution of CASs to the accuracy of FHP budgets and whether CAS usage is correlated with expenditure-per-flying-hour growth, as well as why CASs have been used more by the F/A-18 program.
Download or read book Analysis of Implementing Lifetime Energy Cost Including Fully Burdened Cost of Fuel and Energy Footprints of Contractors as Mandatory Decision Factors in Navy Acquisition written by Doug Murphy and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV), the Honorable Ray Mabus, in an address to the Navy Energy Forum, announced as a new acquisition policy that the "lifetime energy cost of a building or a system, and the fully burdened cost of fuel in powering those, will be a mandatory evaluation factor used when awarding contracts." Secretary Mabus went on to say, "we will also use the overall energy efficiency and the energy footprint of a competing company as an additional factor in acquisition decisions" (Mabus, 2009). Secretary Mabus made this announcement and shared three other green and efficiency goals for the Department of the Navy. His address now puts the onus on the Navy acquisition community to implement the broad policy goals that he outlined. A challenge to the community will be how to implement these goals with a uniform, objective, and definable standard that is able to withstand the scrutiny of congress, which requires full and open competition, the business models of the defense industry, and the legal challenges that are sure to follow as a result of competition. This project analyzes the challenges of implementing Secretary Mabus's announcement. Our analysis further defines the problem, offers recommendations for proceeding, and suggests areas for further study. Specifically, in this project we first conduct a literature review in the areas of total ownership cost, including the fully burdened cost of fuel, and of measuring energy efficiency. We then lay out a methodology for examining the issues associated with the implementation of the SECNAV's announcement. Next, we survey and analyze available private-industry practices in the areas of green procurement or managing energy efficiencies, looking for possible implications for the Department of the Navy. We then explore the issues involved with the implementation of the SECNAV's policy by defining the elements of total ownership cost, delving deeper into the fully burdened cost of fuel, and examining the difficulties with quantifying the energy efficiencies of competing companies. Finally, we conclude the project with detailed recommendations for proceeding and suggestions for further study.
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 Naval Aircraft Operating and Support Cost Model FY76 Revision written by ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES CORP ALEXANDRIA VA. and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report documents the revisions of a parametric model for estimating Naval aircraft operating and support costs developed by Administrative Sciences Corporation. The model provides an estimate of average annual and life cycle O and S costs based on aircraft physical characteristics and basic program parameters using parametric cost-estimating relationships, cost factors and throughputs, and has been used to support numerous cost analyses prepared for CAIG review as well as other special studies such as the Naval Escort Force Mix Study and the Sea Based Air Study. It is updated often in order to remain responsive to each particular analysis, to reflect the changing nature of Naval aviation, and simply to remain timely. This report reflects the status of the model after incorporation of all FY1976 data. The bulk of the report is concerned with providing a clear, concise and complete definition of each cost element and the way it is estimated by the model.
Download or read book Naval Aircraft Operating and Support Cost Estimating Model FY77 Revision written by ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES CORP FALLS CHURCH VA. and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In fiscal 1974, Administrative Science Corp. developed a parametric cost-estimating model which has been updated and documented several times and used to support numerous Defense Systems Acquisition Review Council (DSARC) reviews as well as other cost reviews. This report provides a detailed documentation of the cost-estimating relationships (CER's) developed from FY77 data. In addition, the report has been significantly enhanced in order to serve as a handbook and training aid for Op-96D aircraft analysts. For each cost element in the structure, this report provides: (1) a definition; (2) discussion of the definition and other aspects of how, where, and why these costs are incurred, points of contact including organizational codes and telephone numbers, historical data, and sources for planning data; (3) cost-estimating relationship, including all computational procedures, regression statistics for the CER, and the data base; (4) an alternative CER (in many cases) with the same detail as above; and, (5) an example calculation.
Download or read book An Evaluation of U S Air Force Aviation Fuel Consumption Factors to Accurately Predict Aviation Fuel Costs by Aircraft Mission Design and Series written by Jodi A. Clayton and published by . This book was released on 1996-09-01 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this thesis was to undertake a systematic, scientific study of the accuracy of Air Force published fuel factors to estimate fuel costs at MAJCOM level by mission, design, and series (MDS) since the implementation of the Fuels Automated Management System (FAMS) under the current environment of decentralized aviation fuel (AVFUEL) funding. The research found that, at MAJCOM level, the use of USAF published AVFUEL factors in estimating out-year costs would have overstated costs in both fiscal year (FY) 1994 and FY 1995 by $2.5 M (FY 1994), by $.25 M (FY 1995), and may potentially understate costs by $2.7 M for the current fiscal year (FY 1996). Additionally, the research found that at the MDS level, the use of AVFUEL factors would have greatly understated costs for some aircraft while overstating costs for other aircraft. Since AVFUEL funding is currently decentralized at base level, the use of AVFUEL factors for estimating costs at the MDS level is not recommended for USAFE assigned aircraft.
Download or read book Naval Aircraft Operating and Support Cost Estimating Model FY78 Revision written by ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES CORP FALLS CHURCH VA. and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report provides the updated equations using fiscal 1978 data for the Administrative Sciences Corporation Aircraft Operating and Support (O & S) Cost-Estimating Model. It is intended to be used as an addendum to Naval Aircraft Operating and Support Cost-Estimating Model - FY77 Revision, ASC-R-120, February 1979, which contains an extensive discussion of each cost element as well as other background material. Several initiatives to improve the quality and accuracy of the cost-estimating relationships were incorporated into this version of the model. The most notable is the examination of Replenishment Spares consumption over a two-year period rather than a single year. As more data becomes available, the period will be lengthened even more. Substantial work was also done in the areas of Engine Rework and Modifications. For engines, the recently implemented Engine Analytical Maintenance Plan which has changed the Navy's engine maintenance philosophy for most engines from one of scheduled overhaul to one without scheduled overhaul was investigated. This new policy provides for engine components to be replaced/overhauled periodically but not the entire engine. Although much useful data was obtained on engine removal rates and differentiation of maintenance costs for engines utilized in different aircraft (e.g., the J52-P8 in the A-4E and the A-6E); the data does not yet reflect the new maintenance policy.
Download or read book The Naval Aviation Maintenance Program NAMP Maintenance data systems written by United States. Office of the Chief of Naval Operations and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
