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Navy Shore Infrastructure Investment Support: Modeling of Investment to Output Performance and Readiness
November 1, 2008
This paper documents the process used to develop the Navy Shore Facilities Investment Model (SFIM) that assigns a performance quality value to existing buildings and structures and then calculates the improvement value to the baseline year of selected project investment portfolios over the future year defense plan. An introduction and copy of the prototype software tool that uses these models and data to produce standard reports is included.
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A Study of Selected Issues in Military Construction and Base Operating Support
December 1, 1986
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.
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