Improved Acquisition for System Sustainment: Availability-Based Importance Framework for Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul Acquisition

Abstract

Availability of aging DoD weapons systems is of significant concern, particularly as budgets tighten and system replacement is infeasible. This work developed availability-based importance measures to (i) focus on critical components and (ii) identify appropriate suppliers for acquisition related to system sustainment.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 30, 2015
Accession Number
AD1014657

Entities

People

  • Kash Barker

Organizations

  • University of Oklahoma

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircrafts
  • Department Of Defense
  • Downtime
  • Environment
  • Information Science
  • Logistics
  • Maintenance
  • Monte Carlo Method
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Random Variables
  • Reliability Engineering
  • Risk Analysis
  • Supply Chain
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Systems Engineering

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.