A Decadal Analysis of Shifts in Engineering Manufacturing Development Factors for DoD Assets

Abstract

This research involves the analysis of standard parametric factors by decade within the development stage of acquisitions. Analysts use factors to develop budgets, create a baseline for measuring project progress, or as a crosscheck to the other estimating techniques. This research analyzed data from 408 1921s across seven decades and eight work breakdown structure (WBS) elements. It further analyzed these decades by commodity type, contract and contractor type, and service branch. The statistical tests used in this research determined which decades within our categories were dissimilar and drew conclusions about the impact of those differences. These tests determined that factors have either increased, decreased, or had spikes in many WBS elements, indicating that not all decades represent the overall WBS element or subcategory. The outcome of this research is that cost estimators must take into consideration the decade from which to calculate factors. Analysts will have a reference of which WBS elements, subcategories, and decades to use to develop factors.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2022
Accession Number
AD1174729

Entities

People

  • Michael J. Smith

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

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Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Business Administration
  • Contracts
  • Data Science
  • Databases
  • Delphi Method
  • Engineering
  • Governments
  • Information Science
  • Knowledge Management
  • Military Acquisition
  • Organizational Structure
  • Standards
  • Statistical Algorithms
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Statistical Tests

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  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Library and Information Science