Cost Analysis Applications of Economics and Operations Research

I. Procurement and Contracting.- The Prototype Model of Defense Procurement.- A Contract Termination Processing Model and System for Naval Supply Demand Review (SDR) Actions.- Hellfire Missile Competition Case Study.- Strategies for Reliability Incentive Contracting.- II. Cost and Economics.- A Stochastic Theory of the Generalized Cobb-Douglas Production Function.- Turbulence, Cost Escalation and Capital Intensity Bias in Defense Contracting.- Modeling the Firm-Level Multiproduct Cost Structure of Agricultural Production.- Transaction Costs and Their Impact on Energy Demand Behaviour.- III. Efficiency in Production.- Returns to Scale and Efficiency in Production: A Distance Function Approach to Southern Illinois Hog Farms.- Variable Cost Frontiers and Efficiency: An Investigation of Labor Costs in Hospitals.- Costing Out Quality Changes: An Econometric Frontier Analysis of U.S. Navy Enlistments.- IV. Recent Developments in Cost Modeling.- Cost Modeling for Design Justification.- The Effect of Technology on the Supportability and Cost of Avionics Equipment.- Rocket Propulsion Cost Modeling.- Schedule Estimating Relationships for Tactical Aircraft.- V. Production Lot Sizing.- Lot Sizing and Work-In-Process Inventories in Single Stage Production Systems.- Optimal Strategies for Investment in Setup Cost Reductions in a Just-in-Time Environment.- Process Control With Lot Sizing.- VI. Mathematical Programming Models for Cost Analysis.- Evaluation of Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing as a Survey Methodology by Means of Cost Models and Mathematical Programming.- Two Quadratic Programming Acquisition Models With Reciprocal Services.- VII. Operations and Support Cost.- Analyzing the Economic Impacts of a Military Mobilization.- The Value of Weapon System Reliability in a Combat Environment: Costs and Performance.- The Use of the Army College Fund: Implications for Program Cost Effectiveness.