Effect of Age on the Operating and Support Costs of CG-47 Class Cruisers

Abstract

To gain insight into the operating and support costs of major U.S. surface combatants, IDA looked at trends for the CG-47 class cruiser. This paper presents evidence of the dependence of O&S cost on age and explores cost trends over time. Since the major purpose of the trend analysis was to measure the effects of the recent changes in maintenance policy, we discuss the goals of these changes. We also performed a multiple regression analysis to see how O&S costs depend on age and other cost drivers for the CG-47 class and for all the major surface combatants taken together (to see if the dependence of CG-47 on age is due to the young age of the ship class). Finally, the paper contains results of a quantitative analysis of casualty report (CASREP) trends over time. Our principal finding is that for the CG-47 and other combatants as well, O&S costs do not show the consistent increase with ship age we would expect. Also, CASREP incidence is increasing because of a few problem pieces of equipment.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADA407496

Entities

People

  • Daniel B. Levine
  • Ronald M. Reese
  • Thomas M. Hopkins
  • Waynard C. Devers

Organizations

  • Institute for Defense Analyses

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Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cost Analysis
  • Cruisers
  • Economic Forecasting
  • Gas Turbines
  • Guided Missiles
  • Inventory Control
  • Maintenance
  • Maintenance Costs
  • Maintenance Personnel
  • Material Degradation Processes
  • Materials
  • Naval Operations
  • Navy
  • Personnel Management
  • Regression Analysis
  • Ships
  • Statistical Analysis

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