Experience Curves on Five Army Programs,

Abstract

There is a supplementary approach that should provide a basis for identifying the sources of the large variance in competitive outcomes. This is to adopt an ex ante method: to determine how sole source and competitive contractors actually derive and use experience curves in their pricing and resource management. If the introduction of competition has a significant effect on acquisition costs, then the source of the potential savings should be visible in the manner in which sole source and competitive contractors plan and conduct their operations. Thus, this paper summarizes how contractors used experience curves for five current Army acquisition programs: the Bradley Fighting Vehicle System, (BFVS); the Multiple Launch Rocket System, (MLRS); the Copperhead artillery projectile, the Viper anti-tank rocket, and the York Division Air Defense Gun System, (DIVAD).

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1982
Accession Number
ADP001230

Entities

People

  • Paul M. Carrick

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Defense
  • Army Procurement
  • Artillery
  • Contract Administration
  • Contractors
  • Cost Analysis
  • Costs
  • Department Of Defense
  • Multiple Launch Rocket System
  • Projectiles
  • Resource Management
  • Rockets

Readers

  • Government Contracting/Procurement.
  • Military Science
  • Regression Analysis.