Explaining Weapon System Sustainment's Impact to Aircraft Availability

Abstract

This research focused on understanding the phenomena behind the cost growth of Weapon System Sustainment (WSS) and the simultaneous degradation in system availability for USAF aircraft. The primary modeling technique used was Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) while incorporating temporal effect. While other studies have looked at cost factors related to the Flying Hour Program and age. This study found empirical relationships between each of the four WSS business processes and the lead time in months it takes to realize improvements in system aircraft availability.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2020
Accession Number
AD1110976

Entities

People

  • Michael D. Ingram

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Business Administration
  • Databases
  • Engineering
  • Lead Time
  • Logistics
  • Maintenance
  • Management Personnel
  • Materials
  • Organizational Structure
  • Reliability
  • Reliability Engineering
  • Standards
  • United States
  • Weapon Systems

Readers

  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Materials Science and Engineering.
  • Regression Analysis.