Organic Maintenance Performance Measurement: A New Approach

Abstract

The growing role of Air Force Air Logistics Centers (ALC) in complex, multiyear developmental programs increases the need for effective cost and schedule performance measurement. In order to effectively manage these activities, timely and accurate cost and schedule information must be collected and compared with an established baseline. The ALCs need a new management technique which facilitates this type of performance measurement. A proven approach to cost and schedule performance measurement in weapon system acquisitions is Earned Value (EV). This approach, required of contractors who are subjected to the Cost/Schedule Control Systems Criteria (C/SCSC), allows the program manager to obtain cost and schedule variances at one month intervals during program execution. These variances will corroborate known program problems, or give a first indication of potential problems within a program. This document describes what performance measurements are currently in use and how the EV concept is being applied to organic maintenance programs. The thesis also relates some of the management challenges which impede the implementation of an EV measurement system at organic maintenance. Maintenance, Repair, Earned value, Air logistics center, Organic maintenance

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1994
Accession Number
ADA285018

Entities

People

  • John S. Nehr
  • William G. Queener

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Business Administration
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Control Systems
  • Engineers
  • Logistics
  • Maintenance
  • Maintenance Management
  • Management Personnel
  • Measurement
  • Organizational Structure
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Weapon Systems

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.