September 11, 2002—The U.S. Defense Department has recently published DoD Facilities Cost Factors. The DoD forecasts a large part of its facility maintenance and repair funding needs using its Facilities Sustainment Model (FSM). This approach uses inventory statistics and long-term cost forecasts for individual facility types to estimate the funding necessary to sustain nearly $600 billion in real property assets.
The handbook is available for download at Whitestone Research. Whitestone Research provides the MARS life cycle cost engine and much of the data used by the FSM.
