Accession Number:

AD0672086

Title:

MILITARY PRICE INDEX: PRELIMINARY PRESENTATION.

Descriptive Note:

Technical paper,

Corporate Author:

RESEARCH ANALYSIS CORP MCLEAN VA

Personal Author(s):

• Winestone,Robert L.
• Beckler,Bernard S.

Report Date:

1968-01-01

Pagination or Media Count:

56.0

Abstract:

This paper presents the preliminary results of an attempt to produce a price index for military goods and services. A price index combines the prices of a large number of different commodities or services into one summary number that should reflect faithfully the price change from one time to another. Such an index would permit consideration of military expenditures in terms of real dollars, which are not obscured by the money veil of changing prices. In addition, having an index available would make possible improvements in resource-allocation management, systems analysis, budgeting, procurement contracting, and other areas where studies may have been stymied by the lack of historical price-change data. Author

Descriptors:

• *MILITARY FORCES(UNITED STATES)
• MILITARY SUPPLIES
• MILITARY PERSONNEL
• MILITARY BUDGETS
• CIVILIAN PERSONNEL
• MILITARY PROCUREMENT
• MILITARY RESEARCH

Subject Categories:

• Logistics, Military Facilities and Supplies
• Military Operations, Strategy and Tactics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE