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Obtaining life-cycle cost-effective facilities in the Department of Defense / Constantine Samaras [et al.]
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Samaras, Constantine.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Defense contracts--United States--Cost effectiveness.
- Defense contracts.
- United States--Armed Forces--Facilities--Costs.
- United States.
- United States--Armed Forces--Facilities--Planning.
- United States--Armed Forces--Military construction operations--Costs.
- United States--Armed Forces--Military construction operations--Planning.
- United States. Department of Defense--Appropriations and expenditures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xix, 59 pages) : illustrations (some color)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Monica, CA : RAND National Defense Research Institute, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Department of Defense (DoD) constructs, operates, and maintains a large number of facilities. DoD incorporates life-cycle cost-effective practices into many aspects of the military planning and construction processes. This report provides RAND's description and assessment of the process used to obtain life-cycle cost-effective facilities and how that affects DoD construction options and choices.
- Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Preface; Contents; Figures; Tables; Summary; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; CHAPTER ONE: Introduction; Legislative Background on Life-Cycle Cost Analysis for Military Construction; Study Motivation and Research Approach; Outline of This Report; CHAPTER TWO: The DoD Facility Development, Construction, and Operating Process and Barriers to Life-Cycle Cost-Effectiveness; Incentives and Barriers to Life-Cycle Cost-Effectiveness at Each Step of the Military Construction Process; Step 1: Project Need Identified and Preliminary Justification
- Step 2: Economic Analysis and DD Form 1391 Completed Step 3: Regional, Service-Level, and OSD Project Ranking; Step 4: OMB Evaluation; Step 5: Congressional Evaluation and Approval; Step 6: Request for Proposal Preparation and Evaluation; Step 7: Design and Construction; Step 8: O&M and Decommissioning; CHAPTER THREE: The Role of Building Codes in Determining Construction Material; The Role of the International Building Code and Building Types; CHAPTER FOUR: Trade-Offs Between Annual O&M Costs and Initial Capital Costs; CHAPTER FIVE: Conclusions and Observations
- DoD is Currently Incorporating Life-Cycle Costing in Many Aspects of the MILCON Process Challenges in Obtaining Life-Cycle Cost-Effective Facilities; Observations and Potential Improvements; Appendixes; A. RAND Interview Protocol Used in this Research; B. Navy MILCON Team Planning and Programming Process Diagram; C. Sample U.S. Army DD Form 1391; Bibliography
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- "RR-169-OSD"--Page 4 of cover
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0-8330-8002-4
- 0-8330-8000-8
- OCLC:
- 857365338
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