Teamed for Success: The Imperative for Aligning Systems Engineering and Life Cycle Logistics

Abstract

Supporting systems across their life cycles is an often expensive proposition. Early design decisions have major ramifications on future operating and support costs. Hence, the Department's Better Buying Power (BBP) initiatives highlight what we all know well: Targeting affordability and controlling cost growth across the life cycle is absolutely crucial. Tight alignment of the requirements, acquisition, and sustainment communities across the life cycle is essential. Given our common commitment to life cycle management (LCM), shared technical competencies, and collective responsibility to develop, field, and sustain affordable and effective weapon systems, the Life Cycle Logistics and Systems Engineering communities are--and by definition must be--inextricably linked. It is thus imperative that members of each recognize and understand what the other is all about. A few thoughts follow on the matter for members of both functional communities to ponder.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2013
Accession Number
ADA608644

Entities

People

  • Bill Kobren

Organizations

  • Defense Acquisition University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Business Administration
  • Configuration Management
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Human Systems Integration
  • Life Cycle Management
  • Life Cycles
  • Logistics
  • Maintenance
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Acquisition
  • Organizational Structure
  • Supply Chain
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Educational Psychology
  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).