Analysis of life cycle cost concepts and their implementation by the Naval Facilities Engineering Command
Publisher: Available from National Technical Information Service
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Springfield, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 63
Subjects: NAVAL SHORE FACILITIES; LOGISTICS PLANNING; LIFE CYCLE COSTS
Description: The Navy, like many other federal organizations, is being faced with a decreasing budget. One of the Navy's      biggest problems is that owning and operating their shore infrastructure is consuming too much of its limited      resources. One way to reduce the cost of owning and operating the shore infrastructure is to plan and design      facilities with lower life cycle costs i.e. , facilities with components that last longer, cost less to operate, and      cost less to maintain. Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC), as with all federal agencies, has      been directed to perform economic analysis based on Life Cycle Cost (LCC) concepts on all Navy facility      projects. However, in a recent study, NAVFAC found that a majority of their facility project areas were not      using LCC concepts when conducting economic analysis. This paper will: (1) provide a brief introduction to      life cycle cost concepts and economic analysis; (2) introduce NAVFAC and its role in the facility planning      process; (3) summarize current federal policies regarding facility planning and LCC concepts; (4) summarize      NAVFAC's report concerning the status of LCC in the planning process; (5) analyze and make      recommendations to two main issues hindering NAVFAC use of LCC.
Notes: AD-A339 591.

Thesis (M.S. in Civil Engineering) Purdue University, July 1997.

Includes bibliographical references (leaves 46-47)

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