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Military jet engine acquisition : technology basics and cost-estimating methodology / Obaid Younossi [and others].

Published
Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2002.
Physical Description
xxii, 153 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Additional Creators
Younossi, Obaid, Arena, Mark V., Moore, Richard M., Lorell, Mark A., 1947-, Mason, Joanna, Graser, John C., Project Air Force (U.S.). Resource Management Program, Rand Corporation, and United States. Air Force
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Summary
As manufacturing processes and materials used in aircraft engine production change and new information on aircraft engine technology becomes available, cost-estimation techniques must be updated. The authors present the results of a RAND research project to develop a new methodology for estimating military jet engine costs. They first discuss the technical parameters that drive the engine development schedule, development costs, and production costs, and then present a quantitative analysis of actual historical data on development schedules and costs. Their principal focus was on adding new observations to the cost-estimating database from earlier RAND studies and updating the parametric relationships for aircraft engine costs and development time. The authors present a series of parametric relationships for forecasting the development cost, development time, and production cost of future military engine programs. Their results indicate that rotor inlet temperature is a significant variable in most of the reported estimating relationships. Full-scale test hours and whether an engine is new or derivative were also found to be significant cost-estimating measures.
Report Numbers
RAND/MR-1596-AF
Subject(s)
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ISBN
0833032828 (pbk.)
Note
"Project Air Force."
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-153).
Other Forms
Also available on the internet via WWW in PDF format.
Funding Information
Air Force. F49642-01-C-0003. PA002 6783. PA002 3957. PA002 2957
Complexity Note
Supersedes RAND/DRR-2650-AF.
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