Should Cost: A Strategy for Managing Military Systems Money

Abstract

My first introduction to should cost occurred about 5 years ago when holding a nonacquisition billet. This peripheral perspective caused me to reach out to the Defense Acquisition University (DAU) community to learn more. As I recall, one remark about will cost and should cost was that they resembled a kitten with a yarn ballthings would get complex in due course. I chuckled, but I also kept tabs as the next few years passed, and I ended up directly handling should cost for the Air Force Life Cycle Management Centers (AFLCMC) Armament Directorate at Eglin Air Force Base (AFB) in Florida. That is where I got the hot wash of should costs evolution and quick handoff from a departing Service member who was the primary point of contact since introduction to the weapons portfolio in 2013.

Open PDF

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2016
Accession Number
AD1023260

Entities

People

  • Jennifer A. Miller

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Aerial Targets
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Commerce
  • Cost Analysis
  • Costs
  • Cycles
  • Defense Industry
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Lessons Learned
  • Life Cycle Management
  • Life Cycles
  • Military Acquisition
  • Supply Chain Integrity
  • Weapons

Readers

  • Aerospace logistics and air mobility.
  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Library and Information Science