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POINT OF CONTACT Charles George
PROGRAM PARTNERS
PURPOSE
BENEFITS
TECHNOLOGY USERS
DESCRIPTION
U.S. Army Environmental Center
U.S. Army Cost and Economic Analysis Center
PM-Comanche
Fort Campbell, Kentucky
Corpus Christi Army Depot, Texas
ENVIRONMENTAL COST HANDBOOK
The Department of Defense (DoD) requires program executive officers
(PEOs) and program managers (PMs) to integrate environmental
considerations into their acquisition strategies and include environmental
costs in their lifecycle cost estimates. Environmental lifecycle costing is a
relatively new requirement, and little guidance is available to assist PEOs
and PMs. The Environmental Cost Handbook will describe how to
identify and estimate lifecycle environmental costs for weapon systems.
To develop a handbook that describes how to identify and estimate
lifecycle environmental costs for weapon systems.
Recognition of environmental costs will allow PEOs and PMs to evaluate
impacts on lifecycle costs and make informed decisions on environmental
issues.
PEOs, PMs, other acquisition officials and the U.S. Army Cost and
Economic Analysis Center (CEAC).
The U.S. Army Environmental Center (USAEC) is supporting the CEAC
Weapon System Cost and Economic Analysis Division in developing and
verifying environmental lifecycle costs for Army weapon systems. This
support has required close coordination with several weapon system
program offices. USAEC confirmed there is no “how to” guidance
available for identification and estimation of environmental costs.
The Environmental Cost Handbook is being developed to help PEOs and
PMs figure environmental costs as independent values. The handbook will
provide guidance in a way that allows PEOs and PMs to associate
estimated costs with work-breakdown structure elements to support
activity-based costing and performance monitoring.
The handbook will offer approaches for developing categories of
environmental costs. For each environmental category or activity,
potential sources of existing cost information will be identified along with
guidance for developing cost-estimating relationships. The goal is to
provide guidance flexible enough to support the estimation of
environmental lifecycle costs for most weapon systems.