The Determinants of Base Operating Support Costs

Abstract

The study analyzes spending on base operating support (BOS) activities at 144 domestic naval installations. Statistical regression techniques are used to derive a cost-estimating relationship (CER) that relates BOS spending to such base characteristics as the number of military personnel and the total building area. The CER is then applied to several issues concerning the management of the naval shore establishment: whether there are economies of scale in BOS spending that could be captured through base consolidation; how a given total BOS budget should be allocated across bases that differ in characteristics; and whether statistically-derived cost estimating relationships are better tools for analysis of BOS spending than simple ratios, such as BOS cost per mission person, that are favored by OSD.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADA103823

Entities

People

  • Daniel B. Levine
  • James M. Jondrow

Organizations

  • Center for Naval Analyses

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Business Administration
  • Civilian Personnel
  • Databases
  • Energy Consumption
  • Health Services
  • Information Science
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Personnel
  • Naval Air Stations
  • Naval Shore Facilities
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Regression Analysis
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Statistical Tests
  • Students
  • Test And Evaluation
  • War Colleges

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Economics
  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis