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> The estimated cost of this report or study for the Department of Defense is approximately $159,000 in Fiscal Years 2020–2021. This includes $24,000 in expense
by qchris 6y ago
> The estimated cost of this report or study for the Department of Defense is approximately $159,000 in Fiscal Years 2020–2021. This includes $24,000 in expenses and $134,000 in DoD labor.
I don't know, for some reason this cost feels incredibly low for the view of this document. This is a 184-page document basically summarizing the entirety of US domestic production. Even if you're not paying market rate, I'd have guessed you're talking at least a 5-6 people working full-time on keeping this data up-to-date throughout the year, which can't possibly be true with that number. $159k buys you, including org-level expenses, maybe 3-4 people's last four months? If that? For the world's largest domestic economy spanning sectors from biotech to machine tools to "cyber"? Hopefully there's been some significant investment in automation of data production for each of these channels in past years, and even then, I'm a little dubious about how accurate this assessment could possibly be at the claimed cost.
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- hguant 6y agoThis is DoD truthiness at the core - it only cost 159k to assemble the report, which was probably based on 7-8 multiple studies and analysis that cost a couple of hundred thousand to a million dollars each. This isn't greenfield research, this is a report compiled from a bunch of other reports