A Study of Selected Issues in Military Construction and Base Operating Support

A study of several related issues in the Navy's military construction and Base Operating Support (BOS) programs is documented in this research memorandum. Construction related topics include: 1) changes in the stock of capital facilities over time; 2) the role of, and need for, replacement/modernization construction; 3) economic evaluation of proposed captial investments; and 4) training in economic analysis for Navy facility planners and engineers. As for BOS, the feasibility of full-scale development of quantitative measures of performance as a basis for improving the allocation of resources to these activities was examined; results indicated that such development was not feasible. The alternavtive of macro-level statistical modeling appears to offer considerably greater promise.