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Metrics to compare aircraft operating and support costs in the Department of Defense / Michael Boito [and 4 others].

Title
  1. Metrics to compare aircraft operating and support costs in the Department of Defense / Michael Boito [and 4 others].
Published by
  1. Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND Corporation, [2015]
  2. © 2015
Author
  1. Boito, Michael, 1957-

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Additional authors
  1. Keating, Edward G. (Edward Geoffrey), 1965-
  2. Wallace, John
  3. DeBlois, Bradley
  4. Blum, Ilana
  5. Rand Corporation, issuing body.
  6. National Defense Research Institute (U.S.)
Description
  1. xviii, 54 pages : color illustration, color graphs; 23 cm
Summary
  1. "This report examines several issues associated with the cost-per-flying-hour (CPFH) metric used in the Department of Defense (DoD). CPFH is calculated as the ratio of an aircraft fleet's operating-and-support (O&S) costs divided by its flying hours. Subsets of an aircraft fleet's total annual O&S cost are budgeted in DoD for the flying-hour program used to achieve and maintain flight-crew proficiency and used to calculate hourly rates when DoD aircraft are flown on a reimbursable basis. In addition, other aggregations of costs are used to calculate CPFH and compare O&S costs of different aircraft for various other reasons, including informing decisions on aircraft acquisition and force structure. This report examines usages of CPFH in DoD, including its use to compare O&S costs of different aircraft. The report recommends a definition of CPFH to be used when comparing aircraft and recommends several ways the cost and usage data should be normalized. The report also recommends a cost-per-aircraft metric (where primary aircraft inventory [PAI] is used for the number of aircraft) as an alternative metric for comparing the O&S costs of aircraft."--Page 4 of printed paper wrapper.
Alternative title
  1. Metrics to compare aircraft operating and support costs in DoD
Subject
  1. United States > Air Force > Aviation supplies and stores > Costs
  2. Airplanes, Military > United States > Maintenance and repair
  3. Airplanes, Military > United States > Cost of operation > Evaluation
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Note
  1. "Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense"--Title page.
  2. "National Defense Research Institute"--Title page.
  3. "Series: Research Reports"--Publisher's web site for this work.
  4. "RR-1178-OSD"--Cover page 4.
  5. "Approved for public release; distribution unlimited."--Title page.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 53-54).
Processing action (note)
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