Systems lifecycle costing: Economic analysis, estimation, and management

Systems Life Cycle Costing: Economic Analysis, Estimation, and Management

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-314

  Farr, John Vail ^a  

^a UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY   (United States)

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