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...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Santa Monica :
Rand Corp
2008.
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| Colección: | JSTOR Open Access monographs.
RAND Corporation technical report series ; TR-520-NAVY. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b37284198*spi |
| 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 A longtime material-cost index in Navy shipbuilding is the steel-vessel index, but it is outdated and volatile.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 recurso electrónico (xiii, 15 p.) : il |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 15). |
| ISBN: | 9780833046031 |
