Logistics Information Technology (LOGIT)

Abstract

The Air Force requires an integrated logistics capability that provides timely, accurate and reliable information to decision makers at all levels of command and across the full range of military operations. The Air Force is applying the lessons learned from the Expeditionary Combat Support System (ECSS) Acquisition Incident Review (AIR) in development of a hybrid approach of core logistics system remediation / modification and transformation, to include transitioning to a common IT hosting environment. Financial Improvement Audit Readiness (FIAR) and Software Upgrades The remediation and modification of core logistics systems is necessary for the Air Force to meet statutory Financial Improvement Audit Readiness (FIAR) by 2017 and align with the Joint Chiefs of Staff J-4 Concept for Logistics and the Air Force Logistics Board's approved Enterprise Logistics Strategy (ELS). The Air Force planned for ECSS to subsume most of the Service's core logistics systems upon fielding and therefore placed them in barebones reduced maintenance status during the ECSS program. Due to the cancellation of ECSS, the Air Force must sustain and modernize these systems through both FIAR Remediation, to address the most immediate gaps in meeting FIAR by the 2017 statutory deadline, and Software Upgrades, to reduce high operating costs, implement previously deferred statutory compliance requirements and improve near term system performance. Systems contained in these business areas include, but are not limited to, the Air Force Equipment Management System (AFEMS), Integrated Maintenance Data System (IMDS), Reliability and Maintainability Information System (REMIS), Combat Ammunitions System (CAS), Enhanced Maintenance Operations Center (EMOC), Aircraft Structural Integrity Management Information System (ASIMIS), Integrated Logistics System-Supply (ILS-S), Cargo Movement Operations System (CMOS), Stock Control System (SCS), Purchase Request Process System (PRPS), Automated Logistics Management Support System (ALMSS), Depot Maintenance Accounting and Production System (DMAPS), Enhanced Technical Information Management System (ETIMS), and Weapon System Management Information System (WSMIS). Transformation The Air Force must transform its logistics business processes and transition away from using numerous stovepipe systems and process flows that execute the same tasks. Eliminating process redundancies across the logistics enterprise will enable the Air Force to execute more efficient, cost-effective and integrated logistics in the long term. The objective of Transformation is to conduct business process reengineering (BPR) to identify and eliminate overlaps in our current processes and where appropriate, implement the use of new information technology systems. The Air Force Service Development and Delivery Process (SDDP) is being applied as part of this BPR effort to apply discipline and focus to the task of process reengineering and requirements development in order to reduce risk and successfully transform logistics IT systems. In the SDDP, the requirements definition, architecture and design for an IT capability is a government-owned process. The SDDP ensures the AF end user and Sponsor consider all possible doctrine, organization, training, material, leadership, personnel and facility (DOTMLPF) solutions to the end user's need/problem before a materiel solution is sought. The SDDP is a six-step process, each step with its own specific product outcomes that serve as the basis for downstream activities in the SDDP and facilitating enterprise-level analysis to maximize reuse of existing capabilities. Maximizing reuse will eliminate duplicate implementation actions across the Air Force and assure individual user problems or needs are not solved at the cost of overall enterprise benefits. The outcome of using the SDDP is a well-described requirement which may include a materiel solution, in which case the SDDP details the acquisition and implementation activities to support delivery of the capability. Alternatively, success may be demonstrated by the resolution of the user's problem without a materiel solution. The Air Force logistics enterprise is comprised of multiple overarching functional areas, to include maintenance, repair and overhaul, end-to-end supply chain support, base supply inventories, and predictive analysis and forecasting. The Air Force will standardize its business processes within each major logistics functional area through Transformation Capability Initiatives (CI). Transformation CIs include, but are not limited to: Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MROi), Supply Chain Management (SCM), and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). -MROi will create an integrated capability that plans, schedules, and executes organic depot maintenance support functions critical to agile planning, optimized workload assignment, resource allocation and throughput, thereby increasing depot maintenance support to the warfighter. -SCM includes Supply, Item Master, and Government Furnished Materiel (GFM) initiatives. -SCM Supply encompasses centralized planning and management of items and equipment such as: repairables, consumables, Nuclear Weapons-Related Materiel (NWRM) and cryptographic items and comprises business operations and inventory for the Air Force Base Supply community. -SCM Item Master provides the capability to manage comprehensive, accurate, reliable item master data (e.g., accurate identification and authorization of owners and users of items). -SCM GFM will provide AF accountability for contractor managed government material and reporting of logistics and financial data. AF will be able to track end-to-end logistics and financial transactions, provide total asset visibility (TAV) and report equipment and material inventory values. -PLM enables Air Force engineering/logistics communities to define, track, protect and manage product data for Air Force weapon systems and equipment. The Air Force requires the ability to control configuration of the product throughout the life of the asset. Standardized configuration control will ensure validity, accuracy and reliability, currency, and security of the product information which will increase weapon system readiness by decreasing costs to manage, protect, store and deliver product information. -BA 7 - This program is in Budget Activity 7, Operational System Development because this budget activity includes developmental efforts to upgrade systems that have been fielded or have received approval for full rate production and anticipate production funding in the current or subsequent fiscal year.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2016
• Source ID: 0708610F_7_3600_PB_2016
• Change Summary Explanation: Increase in FY16 supports Logistics Transformation and operational software upgrade requirements. FY14: Reduction for higher AF priorities. FY15: Congressional reduction for prioritizing audit readiness / excess funds. FY16: Increase supports requirements related to remaining audit readiness needs, development of Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul initiative (MROi) and cost-effective legacy software upgrades.
• Service Agency Name: Air Force

Entities

Organizations

• United States Air Force

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Advanced Electronics
• Air Platforms
• Counter WMD
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Air Force
• Air Force Equipment
• Business Administration
• Commerce
• Computer Programs
• Engineering
• Information Systems
• Logistics
• Logistics Management
• Maintenance
• Management Information Systems
• Management Personnel
• Network Protocols
• Organizational Structure
• Supply Chain
• Supply Chain Management
• Systems Engineering

Readers

• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
• Logistics and Supply Chain Management.