Life Cycle Costing: A Working Level Approach

Abstract

Life Cycle Costing (LCC) is an attempt to integrate the concepts of reliability, maintainability, design-to-cost, and integrated logistic support into a management tool designed to aid program managers fulfill their system acquisition responsibilities, particularly with regard to reducing a system's cost of ownership. Increasing emphasis on LCC has resulted in a plethora of DOD/ USAF directives, instructions, regulations, pamphlets, and guides. This thesis attempts to integrate the various LCC requirements, procedures, and techniques currently available from a wide variety of sources (including many unpublished documents) into a management framework that can be used by the working level program manager to implement LCC in any major system acquisition program.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADA103256

Entities

People

  • Anthony T. Cira
  • Kenneth R. Jennings

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Business Administration
  • Contracts
  • Cost Analysis
  • Economic Analysis
  • Employment
  • Engineers
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Industrial Engineering
  • Investments
  • Lessons Learned
  • Logistics
  • Management Personnel
  • Organizational Structure
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • War Colleges

Readers

  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis