Estimating Operating and Support Cost Models for U.S. Naval Ships

Abstract

With the end of the Cold War, the winds of military downsizing are blowing all over the world. Downsizing means fewer personnel, less facilities and smaller military budget. Therefore, understanding the relationships among factors responsible for force operating costs is extremely important when facing downsizing budgetary decisions. This study analyzes the U.S. Navy main combatant vessels' Operating and support costs. It seeks to reveal basic relationships of O and S costs through accounting and structural methods. The accounting oriented analysis found the VAMOSC-SHIPS and Jane's combined database to be relatively accurate with the exception of nuclear submarines and nuclear aircraft carriers. The structural analysis found that the overhaul cost should be analyzed separately due to essential differences used to calculate overhaul costs and a 1985 policy revision to ship overhaul. O and S cost relationships between factors other than overhauls were strong. Manpower was found to have the most dramatic effect on determining O and S costs. Operating and support cost.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1993
Accession Number
ADA277755

Entities

People

  • Chung-wu Ting

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accounting
  • Aircraft Carriers
  • Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion
  • Aircrafts
  • Ballistic Missile Submarines
  • Business Administration
  • Cost Analysis
  • Databases
  • Economic Analysis
  • Guided Missiles
  • Management Personnel
  • Navy
  • Nuclear Powered Ships
  • Nuclear Powered Submarines
  • Nuclear Propulsion
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Submarines

Fields of Study

  • Business

Readers

  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.
  • Strategic Security Studies