Research Summaries

Back Reduction in Total Ownership Cost (RTOC)

Fiscal Year 2010
Division Research & Sponsored Programs
Department Meyer Institute
Investigator(s) Whitcomb, Clifford A.
Sponsor Office of Naval Research (Navy)
Summary The Naval Postgraduate School Meyer Institute of Systems Engineering (MISE) will lead and coordinate a multidisciplinary task to support an investigation into reduction in total ownership cost (RTOC). The study will coordinate among human systems integration, acquisition, and engineering disciplines to investigate the application of modeling and simulation tools and systems engineering methods to determine meaningful holistic options to leverage RTOC. The initial effort will be to plan and hold a workshop in the ONR area on the ONR Total Ownership Cost program. This workshop win be an initial effort to bring the appropriate TOC players into discussions and to develop plans and actions for specific follow-up workshops and meetings. The first workshop will be held somewhere within the July-31 December time period. Participants will be selected by the NPS/ONR team from among the major DOD stakeholders to understand how DOTMLPF aspects impact RTOC in the pre-milestone A activities that can lead to cost reductions throughout the system lifecycle. The anticipated entities involved at NPS include the MISE, MOVES Institute, Systems Engineering department Operations Research department, and the Graduate School of Business and Public Policy (GSBPP). The expected outcomes are to define what would be meaningful reductions in TOC, the metrics involved, possible analysis methods and tools that can be applied, and a. definition of a way forward over the next 2 to 3 years.
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