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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Cost Growth"”.
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Use of Team Building on Construction Projects to Reduce Cost Growth and Schedule Growth
… provided the foundation for this research. Cost growth and schedule growth are two areas that were suspected to be improved by the use of team building. A thorough statistical and graphical analysis was conducted to evaluate the effects of the team building process on cost growth and …
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The cost of Jointness : insights from environmental monitoring systems in low Earth orbit
… a common motivation for joint acquisition is cost savings, recent studies suggest that joint programs experience larger cost growth than non-joint programs and that it may be more cost effective for agencies to acquire systems independently rather than jointly. This thesis explains why joint …
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The relationship between procurment duration and design-build success in transportation projects
… Design-Build, the DOTs consider potential more cost savings, time savings, and quality improvement. In order to maximize success in Design-Build project delivery, state DOTs need to pay attention to the initial steps, like procurement. DOTs should prepare the procurement phase carefully based on …
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The relationship between alternative project approaches, integration, and performance
… projects offer significant advantages in cost growth, schedule growth, modifications, and design deficiencies.
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Future naval ship procurement : a case study of the Navy's next-generation destroyer
Cost growth and inefficiencies are a serious problem in almost all major U.S. defense procurement programs, and have existed for many years despite repeated efforts to control them. These problems are particularly virulent in the design and acquisition of new naval warships. If the Navy cannot …
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Estimation of ship construction costs
… part of taxpayers and Congress for procurement cost growth. This Thesis attempts to examine the current method that the Navy conducts ship cost estimates and suggests changes in order to improve the confidence level and accuracy of the forecasts. An examination of how industry is conducting cost …
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Development of Fuzzy Hybrid Approaches to Project Delivery Method Selection in Highway Construction
… impact on the project performance, such as cost, time, and quality. Project delivery decision-making processes have been heavily relied on experts’ opinions and subjective judgements of professionals to evaluate quantitative and qualitative decision variables. Although current quantitative …
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Costing commonality : evaluating the impact of platform divergence on internal investment returns
Platforming has become an important means of cost-sharing among industrial products. However, recent research has shown that many firms face systemic downward pressure on commonality, with the result that many platforms realize less commonality than intended. This research was chartered to evaluate …
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Synchronization of system-of-systems interfaces in military satellite communications
… leading to adverse impacts including large cost growth and schedule delays. The Air Force Military Satellite Communications Systems Wing (MCSW) in Los Angeles, CA has begun to put a framework in place to manage SoS interfaces, but there are still big challenges ahead and room for …
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Framework for the reduction of programmatic risk on complex systems projects
"In 2008, the cumulative cost growth in the Department of Defense's (DoD) portfolio of 96 major defense acquisition programs was $296 billion and the average delay in delivering promised capabilities to the war fighter was 22 months." This statement from the Director of Acquisition and Sourcing …
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Improved affordability in DoD acquisitions through strategic management of systemic cost risk
For almost 70 years, actual costs of Major Defense Acquisition Programs (MDAPs) in the Department of Defense (DoD) have exceeded on average between 20% and 506% of their life cycle cost estimates, which are official expectations of actual program costs prior to completion. Despite numerous DoD …
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High Growth Rate and High Purity Semi-Insulating Epitaxy Using Dichlorosilane For Power Devices
… standard silane-based CVD process, which have growth rates of 6-7 um/hr, process times would typically exceed ten hours, leading to a significant increase in the manufacturing cost. Growth rates higher than the usual may be achieved by increasing precursor flow, this typically leads to …
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Empirical Analysis of Issue Management in Small Vertical Construction Projects: Relationship between Project Performance, Project Team Actions, and Issue Types
… deviations (mostly negative) from their base cost, schedule, and quality. Therefore, even smaller magnitude of cost and schedule growth on projects, can quickly cumulate to millions of dollars and months of schedule delay across the entire portfolio. Project control techniques can be used …
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Essays in public economics and political economy
… backlash in the United States on health care costs in the late 1990s and early 2000s. During the late 1990s, most U.S. states passed a variety of laws in this period that restricted the cost-cutting measures that managed care organizations (HMOs, PPOs and others) could use. I exploit panel …
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Measuring the social costs of coal-based electricity generation in South Africa
… as a case study. A COAL-based Power and Social Cost Assessment (COALPSCA) Model was developed for: (i) understanding coal-based power generation and its interactions with resource inputs, private costs, externalities, externality costs and hence its consequent socio-economic, and environmental …