Title :
Why affordability is a systems engineering metric
Author :
Redman, Quentin ; Stratton, George
Author_Institution :
Adv. Syst. Economic Anal., Raytheon Missile Syst. Co., Tucson, AZ, USA
Abstract :
The Department of Defense (Air Force, Navy, Army, and Marines) are customers that want effective methods to procure the most affordable defense systems. They want to select and develop technologies that will enable affordable systems in the future. If properly identified and applied affordability attributes are important elements for assessing the affordability of alternatives, they might be even more important for the design and development of products and services. Affordability attributes could influence the way industry manufactures affordable products or purveys affordable services
Keywords :
aerospace industry; military systems; strategic planning; systems engineering; Department of Defense; affordability attributes; defense systems; industry products; industry services; products; services; systems engineering metric; Availability; Costs; Dictionaries; Missiles; Performance analysis; Probes; Procurement; Strontium; Systems engineering and theory; Weapons;
Conference_Titel :
Digital Avionics Systems, 2001. DASC. 20th Conference
Conference_Location :
Daytona Beach, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7034-1
DOI :
10.1109/DASC.2001.963371
