Boeing is making a new autonomous aircraft for the Air Force. Development costs are $80 million in 2017, and $200 million in each of the years 2018 through 2031. In 2032, a ten year production run commences, with 50 aircraft produced per year at $10 million apiece. In the year after production completes, operation and maintenance commences. Operation and maintenance lasts for 40 years, at $5 million per year per aircraft.
a) Gen. Snow knows nothing about cash flow discounting, and so she treats $1 tomorrow the same as $1 today. What does she think the total life cycle cost is? What percent is development? production? O & M?
b) You have taken engineering economics, and you know the Air Force real discount rate is 7%. What is the present value of the life cycle costs? What percent is development? production? O & M?