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The complexity and technology of the weapon system have driven significant increases in defense weapon acquisition budget, thus transparency and efficiency of the budget has become highly significant. For this reason, cost analysis is crucial in appropriate creation and efficient execution of the defense acquisition budget.
The gap between current and future technology maturity level strongly affects R&D cost. When estimating domestic R&D cost, technology maturity is usually reflected by the complexity index of commercial cost estimation models. Good thing is the objective application of complexity index can be limited because it can be subjective and its application logics for R&D cost estimation are not released.
This study proposed a method using local R&D experience and technology maturity data to analyze technology maturity calibration factors, and this can be highly useful when estimating R&D cost in Korea. In this study, we discussed certain international studies on the relation between technology and cost, and we compared them with our proposed methodology. Also, we calculated the technology maturity calibration factors using domestic R&D data.