Using the Steel-Vessel Material-Cost Index to Mitigate Shipbuilder Risk. Technical Report

The more accurately a cost index captures a shipbuilder?s risk, the less the Navy should have to pay its shipbuilders. The Navy uses such indexes to correct for significant cost risks outside its shipbuilders? control. A longtime material-cost index in Navy shipbuilding is the steel-vessel index, bu...

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Main Authors Keating, Edward G, Murphy, Robert, Schank, John F, Birkler, John
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Santa Monica RAND Corporation, The 2008
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Summary:The more accurately a cost index captures a shipbuilder?s risk, the less the Navy should have to pay its shipbuilders. The Navy uses such indexes to correct for significant cost risks outside its shipbuilders? control. A longtime material-cost index in Navy shipbuilding is the steel-vessel index, but it is outdated and volatile. The authors urge the Navy to develop a modern-vessel index that more appropriately represents the materials used today.