Assessing Total Ownership Cost

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The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is interested in receiving proposals to develop anddrive implementation of the solution architecture necessary to significantly reduce thetotal ownership cost (TOC) of the current and future Fleet. At the macro level, TOC canbe defined as the sum of all financial resources necessary to organize, equip, train,sustain, and operate military forces sufficient to meet national goals in compliance withall laws, all policies applicable to DoD, all standards in effect for readiness, safety, andquality of life, and all other official measures of performance for DoD and its components. Although the macro TOC definition bounds the problem, current tools cannot account for the complex interactions of all costs associated with a Naval weapons platform across its lifecycle at the micro level. The lack of quantitative and qualitative TOC data limits the Navy to objectively based predictions of future costs.************************************************************************************************************************************The FULL ANNOUNCEMENT is available on the Grants.gov website by scrolling to the top of the synopsis page and clicking on the "FULL ANNOUNCEMENT" box surrounded by the dotted line at the top of the page.

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