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Metrics to compare aircraft operating and support costs in the Department of Defense / Michael Boito [and 4 others].
LIBRA UG1240 .B65 2015
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boito, Michael, 1957- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Air Force.
- Airplanes, Military--United States--Cost of operation--Evaluation.
- Airplanes, Military.
- Airplanes, Military--United States--Maintenance and repair.
- Evaluation.
- United States.
- United States. Air Force--Aviation supplies and stores--Costs.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 54 pages : color illustration, color graphs ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Metrics to compare aircraft operating and support costs in DoD
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND Corporation, [2015]
- Summary:
- "This report examines several issues associated with the cost-per-flying-hour (CPFH) metric used in the Department of Defense (DoD). CPFH is calculated as the ratio of an aircraft fleet's operating-and-support (O&S) costs divided by its flying hours. Subsets of an aircraft fleet's total annual O&S cost are budgeted in DoD for the flying-hour program used to achieve and maintain flight-crew proficiency and used to calculate hourly rates when DoD aircraft are flown on a reimbursable basis. In addition, other aggregations of costs are used to calculate CPFH and compare O&S costs of different aircraft for various other reasons, including informing decisions on aircraft acquisition and force structure. This report examines usages of CPFH in DoD, including its use to compare O&S costs of different aircraft. The report recommends a definition of CPFH to be used when comparing aircraft and recommends several ways the cost and usage data should be normalized. The report also recommends a cost-per-aircraft metric (where primary aircraft inventory [PAI] is used for the number of aircraft) as an alternative metric for comparing the O&S costs of aircraft."--Page 4 of printed paper wrapper.
- Notes:
- "Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense"--Title page.
- "National Defense Research Institute"--Title page.
- "Series: Research Reports"--Publisher's web site for this work.
- "RR-1178-OSD"--Cover page 4.
- "Approved for public release; distribution unlimited."--Title page.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 53-54).
- ISBN:
- 9780833091895
- 0833091891
- OCLC:
- 933266296
- Online:
- Related Electronic Resource: Publisher's web site for this work, including summary, table of contents, and link to scanned depiction of full text and images:
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