New Approaches to Defense Inflation and Discounting

• Main Author: Connor, Kathryn (auth)
• Other Authors: Dryden, James (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: RAND Corporation 2013
• Subjects: Military history; Military engineering; History; Technology
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

To assess how well current inflation indices and discount rates serve weapon-system program management, this study investigates inflation rates for parts for the Abrams and Bradley ground vehicles. Because even similar systems experience inflation differently, estimating strategies should be reviewe...