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Military jet engine acquisition : technology basics and cost-estimating methodology / Obaid Younossi [and others].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Younossi, Obaid, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Airplanes--Motors--Costs.
- Airplanes.
- Jet planes, Military--United States--Costs.
- Jet planes, Military.
- Jet engines--Costs.
- Jet engines.
- United States--Armed Forces--Procurement--Costs.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (174 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This text adds new observations to the cost-estimating database from earlier RAND studies and presents a method for forecasting the development cost, development time, and production cost of future military engine programmes.
- Contents:
- Preliminaries; Preface; CONTENTS; Chapter One INTRODUCTION; Chapter Two JET ENGINE BASICS, METRICS, AND TECHNOLOGICAL; Chapter Three TRENDS IN TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION; Chapter Four AN OVERVIEW OF COST-ESTIMATING METHODS; Chapter Five ESTIMATING PARAMETERS AND GATHERING DATA; CONCLUSIONS; A AN EXAMINATION OF THE TIME OF ARRIVAL METRIC; B AN OVERVIEW OF MILITARY JET ENGINE HISTORY; C AIRCRAFT TURBINE ENGINE DEVELOPMENT; D MODERN TACTICAL JET ENGINES; Bibliography
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print record.
- ISBN:
- 9781598751819
- 1598751816
- OCLC:
- 191037653
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