1 option
Commonality in military equipment : a framework to improve acquisition decisions / Thomas Held, Bruce Newsome, Matthew W. Lewis.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Held, Thomas.
- Series:
- Rand Corporation monograph series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Interchangeable mechanisms.
- United States. Army--Procurement--Evaluation.
- United States.
- United States. Army--Equipment--Maintenance and repair.
- Physical Description:
- xxvi, 65 pages : illustrations (some color)
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation, 2008.
- Summary:
- Increasingly, the U.S. Army and the Department of Defense as a whole are developing families of systems built around common components. To inform the Army's decisionmaking process surrounding commonality, RAND Arroyo Center was asked to assess the advantages and disadvantages of commonality and how to best manage their trade-offs. To do so, this report uses historical analysis, literature analyses, and case studies of commercial and military efforts to exploit commonality. It presents analyses of the effects of commonality on costs, capabilities, and training and offers a decisionmaking aid that designers, developers, and procurers, in particular, could use to inform their decisions about commonality. It concludes with recommendations for the Army.
- Contents:
- Introduction The Effects of Commonality on Operations The Cost Effects of Commonality The Effects of Commonality on Logistics An Aid to Commonality Decisionmaking Recommendations
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.