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Ratio of sustainment to acquisition costs — is modernization being crowded out?

September 28, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

The graph shows the four phases of a program’s cost over its lifetime: research and development (R&D), procurement, O&S, and disposal, with O&S considered the […]

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