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PURPOSE<br />

BENEFITS<br />

TECHNOLOGY USERS<br />

DESCRIPTION<br />

ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND RESULTS<br />

To develop and verify the environmental lifecycle costs for the Bradley A3<br />

Upgrade ground combat system.<br />

By identifying program environmental cost elements, weapon system PMs<br />

can make informed decisions on environmental issues by evaluating their<br />

impacts on long-term costs. Identification of environmental costs helps the<br />

<strong>Army</strong> develop more accurate and complete lifecycle cost estimates for<br />

weapon system acquisition programs.<br />

Program Executive Officer (PEO)-Ground Combat Support Systems,<br />

PM-Bradley A3 Upgrade and the U.S. <strong>Army</strong> CEAC.<br />

In a 1997 audit, the DoD Inspector General found that environmental<br />

costs were not fully included in the Comanche program’s cost estimates.<br />

In fact, the Inspector General found the Comanche helicopter cost<br />

estimate might be understated. As a result of the audit, PM-Comanche and<br />

CEAC requested USAEC assistance in identifying and estimating lifecycle<br />

environmental costs.<br />

After completing the environmental lifecycle cost estimate for the PM-<br />

Comanche, USAEC provided similar data collection and coordination<br />

efforts with PM-Apache (AH-64D) and with PM-Chinook (CH-47F/<br />

Improved Cargo Helicopter) to develop environmental lifecycle cost<br />

estimates for these programs. USAEC is also developing an environmental<br />

lifecycle cost estimate handbook for rotary wing aircraft.<br />

USAEC’s next step was to gather environmental lifecycle cost estimates for<br />

ground combat systems with the Bradley A3 Upgrade program selected as<br />

the first system and Crusader selected as the second. There are two<br />

versions of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle Systems (BFVS): an M2 Infantry<br />

Fighting Vehicle (IFV) and an M3 Cavalry Fighting Vehicle (CFV). A<br />

total of 1109 Bradleys will be modified to the A3 configuration. On 17<br />

March 2000, a meeting was conducted at the PM-Bradley to coordinate the<br />

preparation of the Bradley A3 modification environmental lifecycle cost<br />

estimate. This project required analysis of the entire acquisition plan for<br />

the Bradley A3 Upgrade ground combat program, identification of all<br />

activities with environmental impacts, and estimation of all associated<br />

environmental costs. Costs were correlated to a work-breakdown<br />

structure for the program and documented using CEAC-approved costdocumentation<br />

formats.<br />

Lessons learned from this and other projects on ground combat systems<br />

will be included in a ground combat system environmental cost handbook.<br />

The handbook will serve as a guide for PEOs and PMs to estimate their<br />

programs’ environmental lifecycle costs.<br />

USAEC has conducted data collection efforts at United Defense Limited<br />

Partnership (UDLP) Lemont Furnace, Pennsylvania, and UDLP-York<br />

Pennsylvania, at PM Bradley A3 (Warren, Michigan), at Fort Hood,

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