Carbon Estimating and Decision Making in USAF Acquisitions

Abstract

Recent executive orders and international agreements require the United States to significantly reduce its carbon and greenhouse gas emissions. The DoD is a significant contributor to the carbon emissions of the USA and will be required to reduce the emissions. Therefore, in order to make appropriate programmatic decisions the DoD needs to develop an appropriate method for estimating carbon and making programmatic decisions; trading-off carbon emissions with the traditional cost-schedule-performance metrics. This thesis examines the possibility of developing a model that can be used to estimate the carbon footprint of producing a system before detailed engineering designed have been complete.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2022
Accession Number
AD1173771

Entities

People

  • Robert F. Gray

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Business Administration
  • Climate Change
  • Composite Materials
  • Engineering
  • Environment
  • Fixed Wing Aircraft
  • Governments
  • Greenhouse Effect
  • Greenhouse Gases
  • Management Personnel
  • National Security
  • Organizational Structure
  • Standards
  • System Software
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Facilities
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Energy Conservation and Renewable Energy Engineering.
  • Nanocomposite Materials Science