Cost Estimating Relationships for U.S. Navy Ships

Abstract

Cost estimating relationships based on the observed (reported) cost and weight (full load displacement) of U.S. Navy ships are derived for the purpose of applying these cost estimating relationships to ships in the fleets of both the U.S. and USSR. This application results in broad, general comparisons that, in the aggregate, provide useful trend comparisons. These cost estimating relationships produce varying results on a class basis, but within each group or category of ships the class overestimates tend to be offset by class underestimates to yield a relatively small category error. This paper updates major portions of IDA Paper P-1530, Simple Relationships for Estimating Procurement Cost of U.S. Navy Ship Categories, dated March 1982.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1983
Accession Number
ADA140747

Entities

People

  • W. E. Shafer

Organizations

  • Institute for Defense Analyses

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Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircraft Carriers
  • Attack Submarines
  • Ballistic Missile Submarines
  • Cvn-65 Uss Enterprise
  • Fish
  • Fleet Ballistic Missiles
  • National Security
  • Naval Operations
  • Naval Warfare
  • Navy
  • Nuclear Propulsion
  • War Colleges

Readers

  • Marine Hydrodynamics
  • Regression Analysis.
  • Systems Analysis and Design