DATAWorks 2022: An Introduction to Sustainment: The Importance and Challenges of Analyzing System Readiness
Abstract
The Department of Defense (DoD) spends the majority of its annual budget on making sure that systems are ready to perform when called to action. Even with large investments, though, maintaining adequate system readiness poses a major challenge for the DoD. Here, we discuss why readiness is so difficult to maintain and introduce the tools IDA has developed to aid readiness and supply chain analysis and decision-making. Particular emphasis is placed on "honeybee," the tool developed to clean, assemble, and mine data across a variety of sources in a well-documented and reproducible way. Using a notional example, we demonstrate the utility of this tool and others like it in our suite; these tools lower the barrier to performing meaningful analysis, constructing and estimating input data for readiness models, and aiding the DoDs ability to tie resources to readiness outcomes.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 2022
- Accession Number
- AD1228951
Entities
People
- Benjamin A. Ashwell
- Megan L. Gelsinger
- Vincent A. Lillard
Organizations
- Institute for Defense Analyses