Elvira N. Loredo

Valuing Programmed Depot Maintenance Speed

Abstract This paper introduces a revealed preference methodology to estimate the value to the United States Air Force of expediting F-15 fighter jet Programmed Depot Maintenance (PDM). We rely on the fact the Air Force has chosen to pay for intermittent PDM on F-15s to assert F-15s must have enough value after PDM visits to justify PDM costs. Air Force expenditure data suggest a typical Fiscal Year 2005 PDM visit cost about

Model‐based control chart for autoregressive and correlated data

3.2 million. Using the aircraft valuation curves consistent with PDM being worthwhile, we find that expediting an F-15′s last PDM visit by a month must be worth at least

Aging Aircraft Repair-Replacement Decisions with Depot-Level Capacity as a Policy Choice Variable

60,000. However, using a plausible annual aircraft valuation decline rate, we find that expediting an old F-15′s last PDM visit by a month would be worth around

Programmed Depot Maintenance Capacity Assessment Tool

75,000 while expediting a new F-15′s first PDM visit by a month would be worth more than

Insights on Aircraft Programmed Depot Maintenance: An Analysis of F-15 PDM

180,000.