MODELING AN ARMY GARRISON'S BUDGET

摘要

This paper presents a case study of modeling the US Military Academy's (USMA) garrison budget using a bottom-up parametric cost model. It forecasts a majority of the costs associated with the budget by using cost estimate relationships based on specific USMA cost drivers. The motivation for the work comes from the inability of the US Army Installation Management Command's current model to adequately represent the resources required by the USMA garrison to support the mission of the Academy. Currently, the Base Operations Support Requirements Model (BRM) projection falls about $18.8 million short of the USMA Garrison's actual annual expenditures. This represents an 18% deficit in the USMA garrison's $103 million dollar operational budget. The model presented in this paper intends to provide analytical rigor to developing an accurate projection of the costs associated with operating the USMA garrison as a basis for upcoming budgeting cycles. Additionally, the model may provide insights for the Army to modify the current BRM to generate more accurate projections Army wide.