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<p>During  the  FY  1994  Senate  Appropriations  Sub-Committ::e  meetings  the  Navy  Operations  and  Maintenance  (O&amp;M)  budget  was  reduced  by  $51.1  million  (.25  percent).  Most  of  the  reduction  was  to  Base  Operating  Support  O&amp;M.  This  reduction  was  a  direct  result  of  the  budget  being  submitted  which  contained  a  manning  level  of  15,000  more  personnel  (2.5  percent)  than  the  actual  level  authorized  for  FY  94.  In  order  to  better  nnrl~'"Stand  whether  the  biidgcl  reduction  is  appropnate,  th1s  thesis  examines  whether  there  are  acceptable  methods  of  relating  base  O&amp;M  expenditures  to  personnel  levels  and  other  variables.  The  question  is  examined  at  both  the  macro-level  for  the  Navy  and  at  the  micro-level  for  San  Diego  Naval  Station.  A  cost  estimating  model,  Quick  Cost,  is  utilized  to  determine  the  macro-level  relationship.  Navy  and  Air  Force  cost  prediction  models  are  introduced  and  compared  for  their  usefulness  at  the  micro-level.  A  regression  analysis  of  San  Diego  Naval  Station's  O&amp;M  is  shown  to  be  misleading  as  O&amp;M  is  negatively  related  to  both  personnel  level  and  number  of  ships  supported.  These  results  are  critiqued,  and  problems  with  this  regression  analysis  are  discussed.  The  analysis  is  used  to  develop  some  suggested  methods  of  allocating  manning  data  and  other  variables  to  Base  Operating  Support  O&amp;M.  Further  analysis  of  this  allocation  question  is  required.
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Romig, Larry G.</div>
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