A Practicality Study of Air Force Depot Maintenance Cost Allocation.

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to test the practicality of the present method of allocating depot maintenance costs based on the number of flying hours (FH) and primary authorized aircraft (PAA). The study addressed two basic research questions: 1) Is it reasonable to assume that flying hours and primary authorized aircraft are appropriate variables to use for development of Air Force depot maintenance cost factors?; and 2) Can percentage allocations presently used for FH and PAA be validated through using a.) regression analysis on fighter and cargo aircraft data, b.) using goal programming as an alternate modeling technique to cross check the regression analysis, and c.) a linear programming formulation as an additional cross check? The study found that throughout all three statistical approaches, FH is the sole significant variable and PAA is relatively insignificant in explaining cost. Furthermore, results show allocation percentages should be 100% to the variable FH.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1987
Accession Number
ADA187625

Entities

People

  • Bruce M. Kalish

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Cyber
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Cargo Aircraft
  • Computational Science
  • Cost Analysis
  • Cost Estimates
  • Databases
  • Fighter Aircraft
  • Information Science
  • Logistics
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Regression Analysis
  • Structural Components
  • Transport Aircraft

Fields of Study

  • Business

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Regression Analysis.