Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment Support

Abstract

The Defense-wide Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment (IBAS) program element, directed by Title 10 USC Section 2508, provides the Department with a comprehensive ability to monitor and assess the industrial base, to address critical issues relating to urgent operational needs and industrial base vulnerabilities and to support industrial base expansion. This program maintains or improves the health of critical and fragile industry capabilities that are at risk of being lost but are needed either at present, or have verified future requirements, to support the National Defense Strategy. The goal of the program is to avoid loss of critical capabilities and resultant reconstitution costs wherever affordable and innovative mechanisms are available to the producers in the interim. IBAS will 1) provide lifelines and safe harbors for unique critical capabilities with fragile business cases, 2) preserve design teams with the critical skills necessary for technological superiority, and 3) support expansion and competition of reliable sources. Criteria for project selection will include factors such as 1) identifiable path of preservation, transformation or innovation between an existing capability and a capability with a very high probability of being needed in the short to medium term 2) loss of the capability is likely in the absence of the proposed project; 3) analysis showing that the project results in a lower overall cost to the department than if capability is developed from scratch when needed; and 4) preference is given to projects supporting multiple programs or services with multiple beneficiaries.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2017
• Source ID: 0607210D8Z_7_0400_PB_2017
• Change Summary Explanation: The $6 million decrease from FY2016 to FY2017 reflects a special emphasis one-time increase in FY 2016 for Space Sector Sustainment. The funding was targeted to maintain active Mercury-Cadmium-Telluride (MCT) detector production (and the capability to surge) and qualify domestic carbon fiber for structures to meet the needs of National Security Systems in the Missile and Space Sectors. FY 2017 baseline program decreased by a net amount of $.056 mil for rebalancing of Department priorities.
• Service Agency Name: Office of the Secretary Of Defense

Entities

Organizations

• Office of the Secretary of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Advanced Electronics
• Biomedical
• Human Systems
• Space
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Attitude Control Systems
• Bipolar Junction Transistors
• Carbon Fibers
• Contracts
• Control Systems
• Cost Reductions
• Department Of Defense
• Detection
• Detectors
• Energetic Materials
• Energy Management
• Manufacturing
• Materials
• Materials Science
• National Security
• Rocket Engines
• Rockets

Readers

• Defense Acquisition Program Management
• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
• Industrial Economics