Using the steel-vessel material-cost index to mitigate shipbuilder risk /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Corporate Authors: United States. Department of Defense. Office of the Secretary of Defense, National Defense Research Institute (U.S.)
Other Authors: Keating, Edward G. (Edward Geoffrey), 1965-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Santa Monica : Rand Corp., 2008.
Series:Technical report (Rand Corporation) ; TR-520-NAVY.
Subjects:
Shipbuilding > Costs.
Shipbuilding > Materials.
Ships, Iron and steel.
Construction navale > Coût.
Construction navale > Matériaux.
Navires en fer et acier.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Service.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom.
Shipbuilding > Costs
Shipbuilding > Materials
Ships, Iron and steel
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Using the steel-vessel material-cost index to mitigate shipbuilder risk
  • How the Navy uses labor- and Material-cost indexes
  • A very simple example
  • A more realistic example
  • The steel-vessel index
  • Conclusions
  • Appendix: Time-phasing material- and labor-cost indexes
  • Revisiting a very simple example
  • Revisiting a more realistic example.

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