gwh%tornado.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (George William Herbert) (01/19/90)
From: gwh%tornado.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (George William Herbert) Anyone else notice the leak of the unit cost of the A-12 ATA plane? The navy accidentally told congress the unit cost [100.3 million per, if i recall right] of these new planes. They wanted this for the [if i got it right] _production_ of the plane... did i miss the prototype stage? or was my source on what the navy said incorrect? PS: Bet on the Locheed team's ATF contender to win the Air Force ATF contract. **************************************************************************** George William Herbert | UCB Naval Architecture [On schedule? at UCB? Yes!] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- gwh@ocf.berkeley.edu ||||||||| "And What if I Don't?" "Then, You Die, gwh@soda.berkeley.edu ||||||||||||||| the Girl dies, Everybody Dies..." maniac@garnet.berkeley.edu |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| -Heavy Metal
wjh@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (william.j.hery) (01/24/90)
From: wjh@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (william.j.hery) In article <13314@cbnews.ATT.COM> gwh%tornado.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (George William Herbert) writes: >Anyone else notice the leak of the unit cost of the A-12 ATA plane? >The navy accidentally told congress the unit cost [100.3 million per, >if i recall right] of these new planes. They wanted this for the >[if i got it right] _production_ of the plane... did i miss the >prototype stage? or was my source on what the navy said incorrect? Sounds much too high for "production" (delivered?) cost. Maybe Life Cycle Cost (plane, support, mainenance, fuel, etc. over the life of the fleet disocunted back to a single point in time). Was your source a public source, and if so can you cite it? What year dollars? Depending on the point someone wants to make, a good accountant can legitimately get an order of magnitude difference between two costs for the same aircraft by going with the incremental production cost of a single additional aircraft discounted back to the initial year of the development program in that year's dollars (for the low cost), or full life cycle cost, including R&D, one time costs of setting up production lines and support systems, maintenance, fuel, etc. discounted to the year the first aircraft is delivered. >PS: Bet on the Locheed team's ATF contender to win the Air Force >ATF contract. Any particular reason why? Airframe? Avionics? Cost? Polotics? (not necessarily listed in the expected order of importance to the decision makers -:)) No classified or competition sensitice information please. Bill Hery AT&T Bell Labs 201-386-2362 att!wayback!wjh wjh@wayback.att.COM