Design Change Notices in Air Force Spares Acquisition.
Abstract
A new Air Force weapon system, if delivered before the support items needed to sustain its use, is not a credible threat or deterrent. To ensure concurrent delivery of support items and the end item, provisioning data, used to initiate procurement of the support items, is processed long before production of the end item is completed. Due largely to the complexity of new Air Force systems, changes to the design frequently occur after the original provisioning data is submitted. Design Change Notices (DCN) are used to notify the Air Force of changes that have occurred to the provisioning data. The volume of changes being submitted threatens to overwhelm the Air Force provisioning process and obviate the advantage of processing the data early to begin with. This research describes DCNs and DCN processing in the Air Force. A flow chart of the current DCN process illustrates that the process is repetitive and inefficient, but the process is inextricably linked to the Air Force provisioning data system. A new data system must be developed to solve the process inefficiencies. In addition, many DCNs that are being submitted and processed do not impact support item procurement. These must be identified and edited out rather than be processed unnecessarily. Keywords: Contract management; Military theses. (KT)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1989
- Accession Number
- ADA215620
Entities
People
- Joseph W. Burns
Organizations
- Air Force Institute of Technology