An Integrated Approach to Reduced Total Ownership Costs of Aircraft (RTOC)

Abstract

The Reduced Total Cost of Ownership (RTOC) Study was a unique, "out-of-the-box", integrated Science & Technology (New Processes & Techniques) approach to obtaining more affordable aircraft weapon systems and modernizing these systems for future combat scenarios. The RTOC Study stands in contrast to the individual "bits & pieces" technology transition plans seen in the past. Individual plans can result in costly programs that are hard to justify and are easily attacked when evaluating fiscal parameters. An integrated Reduced Total Ownership Cost (RTOC) approach, with substantiation data provided by the proposed follow-on effort, would be easily justified by these same fiscal parameters using this new cost database.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADP010983

Entities

People

  • David J. Moorhouse
  • David R. Selegan
  • William J. Lamanna

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircraft Industry
  • Aircrafts
  • Assembly
  • Auxiliary Power Units
  • Basic Programming Language
  • Commerce
  • Computer-Aided Design
  • Control Systems
  • Defense Systems
  • Engineering
  • Fabrication
  • Maintenance
  • Manufacturing
  • Military Aircraft
  • Three Dimensional

Readers

  • Applied Combinatorial Optimization and Logic Circuit Design.
  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Systems Analysis and Design