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Using the steel-vessel material-cost index to mitigate shipbuilder risk /
The more accurately a cost index captures a shipbuilder's risk, the less the Navy should have to pay its shipbuilders. The Navy uses such indexes to correct for significant cost risks outside its shipbuilders' control. A longtime material-cost index in Navy shipbuilding is the steel-vessel...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores Corporativos: | , |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Santa Monica :
Rand Corp.,
2008.
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| Colección: | Technical report (Rand Corporation) ;
TR-520-NAVY. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The more accurately a cost index captures a shipbuilder's risk, the less the Navy should have to pay its shipbuilders. The Navy uses such indexes to correct for significant cost risks outside its shipbuilders' control. A longtime material-cost index in Navy shipbuilding is the steel-vessel index, but it is outdated and volatile. The authors urge the Navy to develop a modern-vessel index that more appropriately represents the materials used today. |
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| Notas: | "Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense." "RAND National Defense Research Institute." |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 15 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (page 15). |
| ISBN: | 9780833046031 0833046039 1281736724 9781281736727 9786611736729 6611736727 0833044982 9780833044983 |