Life Cycle Cost Percentages of Weapons Systems

February 27, 2009 · Filed Under Estimating, Systems Estimating  - 1 Comment(s)

While at a conference this week I heard the presentation of a paper by Quentin Redman, Andrew Crepea, and George Stratton, all of Raytheon, that summarized the life cycle costs of various weapons systems. This table is reproduced below:

System

Percent of life cycle cost

Missile (“Wooden Round”)

RDT&E

11%

Production / Acquisition

77%

O&S

12%

Ship Average

RDT&E

3%

Production / Acquisition

37%

O&S

60%

Aircraft (F-16)

RDT&E

2%

Production / Acquisition

20%

O&S

78%

Ground Vehicle (M-2 Bradley)

RDT&E

2%

Production / Acquisition

14%

O&S

84%



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One Response to “Life Cycle Cost Percentages of Weapons Systems”

  1. donoh, choi on December 17th, 2009 1:16 am

    Thank you for above data(percent of life cycle cost).
    I have studied a method for estimating LCC five years ago. But, I don’t have enough data related percent of life cycle cost.
    Do you have data for this?

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