LO To show my lack of understanding of the accounting systems, are you saying that the way the LRIP costs are calculated exclude the initial R&D costs and any capital costs incurred in the set up of the production line.
In other words the LRIP costs are the semi marginal costs of producing the required output of planes that year?
So to get to the shall one say final cost to the public purse of a post tech refresh software version 3F lane for the USAF, it could be argued that it is the LRIP cost + a proportion (say 1/2,500) of the capital cost of R&D and setting up the production facility etc, + the cost of engineering out of the early batch planes the concurrency issues?