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Impossible certainty : Cost risk analysis for Air Force systems / Mark V. Arena [and three others].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Arena, Mark V., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Air Force--Appropriations and expenditures.
- United States.
- United States. Air Force--Costs.
- United States. Air Force--Cost control.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxvi, 166 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation, [2006]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Cost analysts must predict how much money the military will spend on weapon systems, often without perfect knowledge of tomorrow's technology, economic conditions, and events. This book addresses how such estimates can be made more realistic and offers recommendations to improve communication among analysts and decisionmakers.
- Contents:
- Preliminaries; Preface; Contents; Introduction; History of Cost Growth; A Review of General Risk Methods; Risk Analysis in Cost Estimation; Decisionmaker Perspectives on Cost Risk Analysis; Communicating Cost Risk to the Decisionmakers; Setting a Cost Risk Analysis Policy; APPENDIX; Bibliography
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781433709616
- 1433709619
- OCLC:
- 780861856
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