Cost Effectiveness Study for a System Facility,
Abstract
This report describes a comparative study of six alternative facilities for system-level evaluation at the Navy Electronics Laboratory. This study differs in two ways from past analyses of alternative facilities. First, the intended uses of the facility are redefined to include the evaluation of shipboard electronic systems other than the communications system for which the facility was originally planned. Second, the functional capabilities of each alternative facility are compared from a cost-effectiveness standpoint. Although these relationships necessitates a certain degree of subjectiveness, an attempt is made to provide the information in such a way as to allow the reader to introduce his own subjective estimates and reformulate the results. Any effectiveness model will, in a like manner, have some subjective characteristics which are introduced to bridge gaps in information. In this study, Bayesian weighting factors were used as a means of introducing experience factors where the accumulation of factual data was impractical. However, in the application of these weighting factors, the effect of each on the modified cost of ownership of the systems to be evaluated was taken into consideration.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 1966
- Accession Number
- ADA054472
Entities
People
- A. J. Fremer
- F. W. Field
- H. A. Lindgren
- P. G. A. Carlson
Organizations
- ARINC