Table of Contents

I. Cost Estimating and Changing Technology.- Reestimating the Cost of Production in a Fuzzy Technological Environment.- Estimating and Explaining the Cost of High-Technology Systems.- II. Lot Sizing and Cost Control.- Allocated Cost Structures to Control Equipment Usage “Bottlenecks”.- The Effects of Different Production Rate Measures and Cost Structures on Rate Adjustment Models.- Production Lot Sizing in a Class of Batch Process Flow Shops.- III. Schedule Estimating.- Schedule Estimating Relationships for Air-Launched Missiles.- IV. Uncertainty in Cost Estimating.- A General Analytic Approach to System Cost Uncertainty Analysis.- The Incorporation of Uncertainty into Investment Evaluations.- Economic Design of Fraction Defective Control Charts: Simplification of the Multiple Assignable Causes Situation.- VI. Warranties and Repair Parts Costing.- An Active Decision Support System for Warranty Cost Estimation.- Parametric CERs for Replenishment Repair Parts.- VII. Test and Evaluation Issues.- Maintaining the Capital Sk at DoD Test and Evaluation Sites.