Reducing Work Content in Early Stage Naval Ship Designs (Briefing Charts)

Abstract

The Problem: AT&L (2013) analyses of cost and schedule growth on Major Defense Acquisition Programs (MDAPs) over last 20 years: Premature contracting without understanding design issues greatly affects contract work content and cost growth. Early work content stability predicts lower total cost, work content, and schedule growths. Contract work content growth dominates total cost growth. Cost over target reflects poor performance, poor estimation, or faulty framing assumptions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 14, 2014
Accession Number
ADA624052

Entities

People

  • Laury Deschamps
  • Robert G. Keane Jr.
  • Steve Maguire

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Contracts
  • Cost Models
  • Databases
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Geometry
  • Naval Vessels
  • Navy
  • Production
  • Productivity
  • Relational Databases
  • Ship Design
  • Ships
  • Space Exploration
  • Uss Arleigh Burke
  • Uss Ticonderoga

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Systems Analysis and Design