WSSC (Weapon System Cost Retrieval System) System Inputs. The Weapon System Cost Retrieval System (WSCRS), H036C

摘要

Desmatics, Inc. has conducted a study of the Weapon System Cost Retrieval System (WSCRS), the data system designator (DSD) for which is H036C. WSCRS is the source of aircraft depot maintenance and consumption spares cost information used by the Weapon System Support Cost (WSSC) system, a subsystem of the Air Force Visibility and Management of Operating and Support Cost (VAMOSC) system. The Statement of Work called for ... research to determine the appropriateness of the H036C data used in the VAMOSC system ..., and an assessment of ... the impact on VAMOSC outputs of any limitations in the H036C data. This study focused on the WSCRS output received by WSSC and the use which WSSC makes of that output. Desmatics conducted an assessment of WSSC depot-level cost algorithms in 1983 as part of its independent validation and verification of the WSSC system. The present study provides a more detailed assessment of WSCRS as a data source for WSSC. Section II describes the sources of information from which WSCRS obtains data, outlines the algorithms used by WSCRS to allocate costs, and describes the interface between WSCRS and the WSSC system. Section III discusses criteria used by WSSC to select information from its interface with WSCRS. Section IV considers the appropriateness of the WSCRS data which WSSC uses, while Section V contains related topics. Conclusions and recommendations are presented in Section VI, together with comments from the Office of VAMOSC.