FUTURE SYSTEM CONCEPTS AND RELATED, INNOVATIVE, ANALYSIS TOOLS

PROJECT OBJECTIVES: THE PRIMARY OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROPOSED EFFORT IS TO DEVELOP AN ANALYTICAL MODEL FOR COST ESTIMATING OF EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES. GIVEN THE FORECASTED RESOUCE CONSTRAINTS, THIS COST ESTIMATING TOOL WILL ASSIST IN EARLY EVALUATION OF DESIGN APPROACHES FOCUSED ON SOLVING MISSION GOALS AND ASSISTING IN PROGRAM START DECISION MAKING. APPROACH: AXIOM WILL DEVELOP UPDATED APPROACHES WHILE UTILIZING EXISTING ACTIVITIES WUCH AS, COST ESTIMATING FOR THE SINGLE STAGE TO ORBIT (SSTO), PROGRAM TO DEVELOP THIS APPROACH. THIS PHASE I PROPOSED EFFORT WILL DEVELOP A SAMPLE MODEL FROM A SELECT EMERGING TECHNOLOGY. THE SAMPLE MODEL TECHNOLOGY CHOSEN WILL BE AGRRED UPON MUTUALLY BY AXIOM AND THE AIR FORCE PROGRAM SENSOR. AXIOM WILL DEVELOP A DATA COLLECTION PLAN MODEL AND CER DEVELOPMENT PLAN, THEN DEVELOP THE ACTUAL MODEL. THE MODEL WILL BE TESTED BY USING AN EXISTING TECHNOLOGY WITH AVAILABLE COST DATA AND REVIEWING THE RESULTS. PROJECT RESULTS: THE PHASE I EFFORT WILL DELIVER A TESTED ANALYTICAL TOOL TO ASSIST IN PLANNING. NEXT AXIOM WILL DEVELOP A PHASE II PLAN WHICH TAKES THE PROVEN CONCEPT TO A FULL-SCALE LIFE-CYCLE COST MODELING APPROACH.