CONCEPTS AND TECHNIQUES FOR SUMMARIZING DEFENSE SYSTEM COSTS

Abstract

Some techniques used to summarize total costs employed in systems analyses are classified, described, and compared. Their respective advantages and disadvantages are given, and some implications of each are brought out. Five cost-summarizing techniques are selected and distinctions between them are based on common usage. The procedures are termed: Five-Year System Cost, period outlay, net cost, present cost, annual cost. Necessary to their discussion is an understanding of the major types and general content of defense system cost analyses, the concept of remaining value, and the principle that money has time value. A brief section on each of these subjects with appropriate references precedes the discussion of the methods for summarizing costs.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 24, 1965
Accession Number
AD0624447

Entities

People

  • J. W. Noah

Organizations

  • Center for Naval Analyses

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Defense
  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Contracts
  • Corporations
  • Cost Analysis
  • Defense Systems
  • Economic Analysis
  • Economics
  • Investments
  • Mathematics
  • Money
  • Navy
  • Procurement
  • Systems Analysis
  • Training
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Systems Analysis and Design