Oh Glorious Day.. Weapons System Decisions To Be Made Based On Total Life Cycle Costs

The October 13 2008 issue of Federal Times has a story Titled “Better Estimates Urged for Weapons Programs” about John Young, Pentagon Acquisition Executive and his movement for “establishing life cycle metrics early in the acquisition process”

Galorath has been preaching evaluating total ownership costs, not just development, for years. And we understand the pressures to “get it out in the field to support the warfighter” Using all the SEER products such as SEER for Hardware, Electronics and Systemssupport total ownership costs and tradeoff analysis to determine the most effective system design and architecture from a set of alternatives.

We all realize that there are other issues beyond just total ownership cost to keeping our country and those in harms’ way safe. And I know that combining estimating of total ownership costs early and often can support that goal.

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