Inclusion of Operating and Support Costs in Competitive Air Force Source Selections: Challenges and Tools for Implementation

By Frank Camm, Lauren A. Mayer, Elizabeth Hastings Roer

This report focuses on how competitive source selections can be used to better emphasize the government's goals related to reducing operating and support (O&S) costs. The U.S. Air Force has struggled with how to incorporate O&S costs into its source selection process because of attributes of O&S activities, regulatory requirements, and institutional factors that discourage their inclusion.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1977406297
• ISBN13: 9781977406293
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: RAND Corporation
• Length: 144 Pages