Maintenance trend analysis of air conditioning systems for ship operations in the Arabian Gulf

In December 2000, Program Budget Decision (PBD) 096 changed the way the Department of the Navy (DoN) budgets for Arabian Gulf operations. The cost of operations is now required to be submitted as part of the annual budget vice funded as contingency operations. In order to justify increased funding of incremental costs for operations in the Gulf, a method to justify such budget requests must be developed. This research developed a regression model targeted at the intermediate and depot level maintenance cost trends for Air Conditioning (A/C) systems based upon the assumption that the severe weather factors of the Gulf would impact the maintenance of A/C equipment. The model used ship age, deployed operational tempo (OPTEMPO), and temperature factors as explanatory variables in the model. The results of the regression analysis indicate the model does not provide evidence of increased maintenance costs of A/C systems for operations in the Gulf. Based on the inconsistencies in the maintenance data and the limitations of the explanatory variables, it is recommended that this approach be excluded from further research to justify increased budget requests for operations in the Gulf.

Department dc:contributor.department

Management

Grantor dc:publisher

Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School

Year dc:date.issued

2001

Author dc:creator

• Emerson, Bradley E.

Advisors dc:contributor.advisor

• Mutty, John
• Liao, Shu S.

Statement dc:rights

• This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/10945/1275

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:calhoun.nps.edu:10945/1275