Implementing the Next-Generation Product Support Strategy

Abstract

Accumulating budget pressures and ongoing DoD leadership attention has accelerated the need to reduce weapons system life cycle costs and maximize efficiencies across the entire Department. This focus on total life cycle management has created renewed attention to the weapon system support area(now referred to as product support), an area in which DoD spends over $132 billion annually. As a result, the DoD established a cross-functional team of stakeholders from the Services, agencies, industry, and academia, known as the Product Support Assessment Team (PSAT), to drive critical process changes needed to reduce costs and facilitate next generation product support across the entire enterprise.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2012
Accession Number
AD1016004

Entities

People

  • Basil Gray
  • Mark Gajda

Organizations

  • Assistant Secretary of Defense for Logistics and Materiel Readiness

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Business Administration
  • Central Nervous System
  • Cost Analysis
  • Costs
  • Deployment
  • Life Cycle Costs
  • Life Cycle Management
  • Life Cycles
  • Logistics
  • Logistics Management
  • Management Personnel
  • Supply Chain
  • Sustainment
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Training
  • Weapon Systems

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Systems Analysis and Design