Book/Printed Material A new methodology for conducting product support business case analysis (BCA) : with illustrations from the F-22 product support BCA With illustrations from the F-22 product support BCA

Title

• A new methodology for conducting product support business case analysis (BCA) : with illustrations from the F-22 product support BCA

Other Title

• With illustrations from the F-22 product support BCA

Summary

• "Department of Defense (DoD) product support business case analyses (BCAs) compare alternative courses of action (COAs) for sustaining weapon systems and recommend ways to improve on current sustainment practice. This document explains how to apply standard Office of Management and Budget and DoD guidance on project evaluation to product support BCAs in a way that allows senior DoD decisionmakers to use net present value (NPV) as the dominant figure of merit for comparing COAs. It identifies a primary performance attribute and estimates the cost of ensuring that every COA meets a target level of performance for this attribute. This begins a process of estimating the annual cash flows for each COA relative to a baseline COA. The approach then elicits from subject matter experts (1) what sources of risk might delay or thwart each COA's efforts to achieve target performance and (2) how each source of risk affects each COA's efforts. It allows these efforts to differ across potential future states. Each future state yields a different set of annual cash flows based on (1) the cash flows associated with trouble-free implementation, including transition and implementation costs and savings, and (2) the effects of sources of risk that degrade implementation. The approach ultimately states the findings of a BCA in terms of dollar values of NPVs for COAs--figures that senior decisionmakers understand intuitively, because they use them routinely in decisions about defense resource management"--Publisher's description.

Names

• Camm, Frank A., 1949- author
• Matsumura, John, author
• Mayer, Lauren A., author
• Siler-Evans, Kyle, author
• Project Air Force (U.S.), issuing body
• Rand Corporation, publisher

Created / Published

• Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND Corporation, [2017]

Headings

• -  United States.--Air Force--Equipment--Maintenance and repair--Management--Evaluation
• -  United States.--Air Force--Equipment--Maintenance and repair--Costs--Evaluation
• -  Operational readiness (Military science)
• -  F-22 (Jet fighter plane)--Maintenance and repair--Management--Evaluation
• -  F-22 (Jet fighter plane)--Maintenance and repair--Costs--Evaluation

Notes

• -  "Prepared for the United States Air Force"--Title page.
• -  "The research described in this report was sponsored by Maj Gen Dwyer L. Dennis, executive officer of the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Fighter-Bomber Directorate, and conducted by the Resource Management Program within RAND Project AIR FORCE."--Publisher's website.
• -  Also available on the Internet as a PDF file.
• -  Includes bibliographical references (pages 62-64).
• -  FA7014-06-C-0001
• -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Medium

• 1 online resource (xiv, 64 pages) : illustrations.

Call Number/Physical Location

• UG1242.F5

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2024739079

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2024739079

Rights Advisory

• This is non-restricted, fully open content that may be accessed on and off of the Library of Congress campus, with no restrictions, by an unlimited number of users

Access Advisory

• Unrestricted online access

Online Format

• image
• pdf

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2024739079

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