I. Procurement and Contracting -- The Prototype Model of Defense Procurement -- A Contract Termination Processing Model and System for Naval Supply Demand Review (SDR) Actions -- Hellfire Missile Competition Case Study -- Strategies for Reliability Incentive Contracting -- II. Cost and Economics -- A Stochastic Theory of the Generalized Cobb-Douglas Production Function -- Turbulence, Cost Escalation and Capital Intensity Bias in Defense Contracting -- Modeling the Firm-Level Multiproduct Cost Structure of Agricultural Production -- Transaction Costs and Their Impact on Energy Demand Behaviour -- III. Efficiency in Production -- Returns to Scale and Efficiency in Production: A Distance Function Approach to Southern Illinois Hog Farms -- Variable Cost Frontiers and Efficiency: An Investigation of Labor Costs in Hospitals -- Costing Out Quality Changes: An Econometric Frontier Analysis of U.S. Navy Enlistments -- IV. Recent Developments in Cost Modeling -- Cost Modeling for Design Justification -- The Effect of Technology on the Supportability and Cost of Avionics Equipment -- Rocket Propulsion Cost Modeling -- Schedule Estimating Relationships for Tactical Aircraft -- V. Production Lot Sizing -- Lot Sizing and Work-In-Process Inventories in Single Stage Production Systems -- Optimal Strategies for Investment in Setup Cost Reductions in a Just-in-Time Environment -- Process Control With Lot Sizing -- VI. Mathematical Programming Models for Cost Analysis -- Evaluation of Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing as a Survey Methodology by Means of Cost Models and Mathematical Programming -- Two Quadratic Programming Acquisition Models With Reciprocal Services -- VII. Operations and Support Cost -- Analyzing the Economic Impacts of a Military Mobilization -- The Value of Weapon System Reliability in a Combat Environment: Costs and Performance -- The Use of the Army College Fund: Implications for Program Cost Effectiveness.