The US industrial RF unit cost study

A major goal of the ILC Global Design Effort (GDE) is to produce an ILC Reference Design Report and an ILC Technical Design Report. Physicists and policy-makers will use these reports to decide the future of the project. As part of these reports detailed concept, performance assessments, reliable international costing, an industrialization plan, siting analysis, as well as detector concepts and scope must be developed. As part of this effort, a contract for an industrial cost study for fabrication of the Cryomodules and RF Power Systems that make up the RF Units of the ILC was commissioned by Fermilab to Advanced Energy Systems and their team partners, CPI and Meyer Tool. This paper presents the methodology of the industrial cost study and summarizes important assumptions. The public results and key cost drivers will be presented.