Life-cycle cost management for warships based on game chain

The life-cycle phases of warship weapon include five sections. Costs of each phase have different percentages. According to phases life-cycle cost (LCC) analyses for several types of warship weapon, the significance and keystone of cost management research were pointed out. The theory structure of organization system game chain was applied to analyses process of LCC management for warship weapon based on game theory. The content of game chain has great improvement compared with traditional game theory. In such phases as demonstration, development, manufacture, purchase, operation and support, the game groups were built by game relationship and procedure while the game chains were composed of levels principal-agent process and relation. The game chain has characters of vertical link chain. Game net was composed of game group and game chain. Then it analyzed the phases game relationship of the game net and dug out the evolvement law of game chain for LCC management. There drew a conclusion that costs trade-off and distribution reasonably of warship weapon LCC phases were important measures for costs economization.