Application of the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Constrained Facet Analysis (CFA) Models to Measure Technical Productivity Improvements at Newark Air Force Station, Ohio.

This research advances the application of the Data Envelopment Analysis DEA and the Constrained Facet Analysis CFA models to measure total factor technical productivity on maintenance levels above the Cost Center at Headquarters Aerospace Guidance and Metrology Center HQ AGMCMA. Input resources consumed and output quantities produced for eighteen Cost Centers, five Branches, four Divisions and the Directorate within AGMCMA were collected, evaluated aggregated and applied to the DEACFA models for the Fiscal Year 1983 through the second quarter of the Fiscal Year 1985. Eleven Cost Centers, four Branches, two Divisions and the Directorate were then compared against themselves over those ten observation quarters and the analyses were discussed and validated by different HQ AGMCMA management levels. The results of this research were deemed acceptable by these using managers as a useful aid to their decision making and demonstrates the capability of the DEACFA models to measure total factor technical productivity on maintenance levels above the Cost Center.