Focusing Sustainment Logistics Toward Capabilities Development: Part II

Abstract

Part I of this article, published in the May-June 2009 issue of Defense AT and L magazine, recommended that life cycle logisticians press to establish more persistent and thorough analyses of fielded defense system sustainment performance and associated operations and support (O and S) costs. Operational logistics analyses, fed consistently into the earliest phases of acquisition by means of stronger business case decision rationale, can affect systems life cycle decisions and management; and they can specifically further a long-standing intent that all early decisions better target logistics supportability that will most affordably sustain systems technical performance to persistently high degrees of operational availability. While such analyses could be used to greater effect by logistics advocates during the earliest capabilities determination phases of acquisition, timely analysis is, unfortunately, not routinely cycling back to serve logistics advocacy in driving early-phase systems acquisition.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2009
Accession Number
AD1015784

Entities

People

  • Charles Borsch

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Cost Estimates
  • Costs
  • Defense Systems
  • Engineering
  • Life Cycle Costs
  • Life Cycle Management
  • Life Cycles
  • Logistics
  • Logistics Support
  • Maintenance
  • Performance Engineering
  • Program Management
  • Risk
  • Sustainment
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.