MILITARY READINESS: Analysis of Maintenance Delays Needed to Improve Availability of Patriot Equipment for Training

Abstract

Patriot is a mobile Army surface-to-air missile system deployed worldwide to defend critical assets and forces. The Army plans to extend the life of Patriot equipment until at least 2048 through maintaining and modernizing the system. To achieve this, the Army performs two maintenance processes, restoring equipment returning from combat back to pre-deployment conditions (reset) and comprehensively overhauling("recapitalizing") a portion of its equipment annually

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2018
Accession Number
AD1168731

Entities

People

  • John Pendleton

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Defense
  • Business Administration
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Department Of Defense
  • Deployment
  • Governments
  • Logistics
  • Maintenance
  • Maintenance Personnel
  • Production
  • Quality Control
  • Radar
  • Standards
  • Supply Chain
  • Training
  • Transportation

Readers

  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Missile Defense Systems.