Computer-Aided Acquisition and Logistic Support. Benefits Working Group Report

摘要

The benefits analysis represented a logical grouping of expected CALS Benefits. The initial intention was to forecast those areas in which benefits would occur, such that they could be categorized, measured and assessed. The resulting Benefits Analysis Framework provides five general categories of benefits. The Working Group was unable to successfully categorize the benefits directly attributable to the integration effects of CALS. Part of the problem involves the inability of current cost accounting structures to accurately reflect the benefits of integration. The other part of the problem involves a general inability to predict the synergistic effects of integration, such as spawning new technologies not even dreamt of today.