Accession Number:

AD1167011

Title:

Tactical Aircraft: Impact of F-22 Production Cost Reduction Plans on Cost Estimates

Descriptive Note:

[Technical Report, Congressional Testimony]

Corporate Author:

GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE

Personal Author(s):

• Li, Allen

Report Date:

2001-08-02

Pagination or Media Count:

9

Abstract:

In 1997, the Air Force and contractors reported that the F-22 production cost could grow substantially and that the contractors should develop cost reductions to offset that cost growth. The Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics agreed. Since then, the contractors and the Air Force have been developing and implementing plans to reduce costs by enhancing production technology, improving manufacturing techniques, and improving acquisition practices. Cost reduction plans are categorized as challenge, not yet implemented or implemented. This categorization defines the relative progression of these plans toward potentially achieving future cost reductions. Challenge plans are those that are not yet well defined and are not yet close to achieving future cost reductions. Because these challenge plans are not yet well defined, neither Air Force nor Office of the Secretary cost estimators assumed any cost reductions from the challenge plans when formulating their estimates.

Descriptors:

• national security
• contracts
• cost estimates
• military acquisition
• tactical aircraft
• test and evaluation
• acquisition
• air force
• contractors
• cost reductions
• engineering
• international relations
• procurement
• aircrafts
• costs
• budgets
• estimators

Subject Categories:

• Economics and Cost Analysis
• Aircraft
• Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering and Control of Production Systems

Distribution Statement:

[A, Approved For Public Release]