Navy Maintenance: Improved Labor Estimates Can Reduce Shipyard Costs

Abstract

The Navy's public shipyards support peacetime fleet maintenance needs and provide a base for responding to wartime requirements. Although the eventual size of the public shipyard industrial base is uncertain because of fleet downsizing, each shipyard should operate as efficiently as possible. Because labor cost control is fundamental to efficient operations, GAO evaluated the Navy's methods for managing and controlling shipyard labor costs

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1993
Accession Number
ADA267474

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Cost Estimates
  • Cost Reductions
  • Costs
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Industrial Engineering
  • Information Systems
  • Maintenance
  • Measurement
  • Navy
  • Puget Sound
  • South Carolina
  • Standards
  • Training
  • Uss California

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  • Government Contracting/Procurement.
  • Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.
  • Strategic Security Studies