State-Level Projections of Potential Defense Outlays: An Introduction to RDEIMS (Regional Defense Economic Impact Modeling System).
Abstract
The Department of Defense has developed a system for projecting potential defense expenditures in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The projections are made available on request to firms, state and local government planning agencies, trade associations, and other organizations with a serious interest in defense markets in particular geographic regions. The estimates are intended to serve as benchmarks. They describe the future pattern of defense and defense-related expenditures assuming that each state's shares of the various components of defense activity remain what they have been in recent years. Actual spending patterns will, of course, be determined by competition for defense contracts, and so may differ form historical distributions. The projections cannot forecast such changes. They do however, account in detail for the effects of changes in composition of defense spending on the geographic distribution of expenditures. This booklet is directed to those who intend to use the projections, It explains how the projections are produced and offers some guidelines for interpreting them. The projections are made using a new tool, the Regional Defense Economic Impact Modeling System (RDEIMS). RDEIMS is an extension of the Defense Economic Impact Modeling System (DEIMS), a forecasting system developed by DoD to project defense purchases of the products of various industries.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1988
- Accession Number
- ADA190423
Entities
Organizations
- Office Of The Under Secretary Of Defense