Using the Steel-Vessel Material-Cost Index to Mitigate Shipbuilder Risk

• Yazar: Keating, Edward G. (auth)
• Diğer Yazarlar: Murphy, Robert (auth), Schank, John F. (auth), Birkler, John (auth)
• Materyal Türü: Elektronik Kitap Bölümü
• Dil: İngilizce
• Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: RAND Corporation 2008
• Konular: Political control & freedoms; Military engineering; Political Science; Technology
• Online Erişim: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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...