Retaining F-22A Tooling: Options and Costs

John C. Graser ; Kevin Brancato ; Guy Weichenberg ; Soumen Saha ; Akilah Wallace

RAND Corporation

RAND Corporation

关键词: Fighter Aircraft;    Military Budgets and Defense Spending;    Military Acquisition and Procurement;   

ISBN  :  9780833050984
RP-ID  :  TR-831-AF

学科分类：自然科学（综合）

美国|英语

来源: RAND Corporation Published Research

【 摘 要 】

The last F-22A aircraft is scheduled for delivery in early 2012. The Air Force plans to continue contracts that provide for F-22A modernization and sustainment work but not those that provide for new production. As the last F-22A component is fabricated, assembled, or integrated at each of the many facilities involved in producing the aircraft, decisions must be made as to what tooling will be retained and what tooling will be disposed of. In this report, the authors estimate (1) how much more it would cost to retain all the F-22A unique government tooling required for a future production restart than to retain only the tooling required for sustainment support and (2) how much it would cost to restart production at some future date.