Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment

Abstract

OSD Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (AT&L) investments under this program are informed by the Department's industrial assessment tools to include the Sector by Sector, Tier by Tier (S2T2) repository of defense industrial base information maintained by Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Manufacturing and Industrial Base Policy) (DASD(MIBP)). These tools collaboratively identify elements of the industrial base where current acquisition programs will not invest enough in production and/or research to support the minimum sustaining rate that would keep critical suppliers viable. While industrial base risks identified through these assessment tools are to be mitigated primarily through direct engagement with military departments, agencies, and industry, exceptional cases will require defense-wide intervention via investment accounts, often in collaboration with multiple Services and agencies, to ensure adequate industrial capability to support future defense needs. This funding is a key tool for addressing supply chain risks and diminishing manufacturing sources. Investments are prioritized though a careful analysis at every tier of the supply chain according to a numerical scale of risk-area's fragility and criticality. Criticality examines characteristics that make a specific product or service difficult to replace if disrupted; fragility examines characteristics that make small deviations in the status quo likely to have substantial effects on an industry / supplier. These concepts underpin AT&L’s core mission and inform critical investment, budgetary, and programmatic decision-making.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2014
• Source ID: 819_0607210D8Z_7_0400_PB_2014

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• Defense Acquisition Program Management
• Defense Technology Research and Development.
• Systems Analysis and Design