Industrial Base Sustainment
Abstract
Sector by Sector, Tier by Tier (S2T2) fragility and criticality assessments are applied across the DoD enterprise to identify and prioritize industrial base niches requiring additional investment by DoD. The purpose of investment is to sustain essential industrial production and design team capabilities. Projects will have impact across all industrial base sectors: aircraft; Command, Control, Communications and Computers (C4); missiles; ground vehicles; radar & Electronic Warfare (EW) and others. Projects will be improvements of existing capabilities with a very high probability of success. IBS will include focused projects in the following critical areas in FY 2014: Butanetriol, a solid rocket fuel precursor chemical; Infrared Focal Plane Array; Advanced Solid Rocket Propulsion; Test Facilities for Radiation Hardened Electronics. With a decline in the procurement of missile programs, design and production skills for critical components within the missile sector industrial base are at risk which could result in costly delays and unanticipated expense. The loss of this design and production capability could have a significant impact on many current and future missile programs damaging the readiness of the Department. The missile sector sustainment effort will improve the existing production process efficiencies, explore advanced materials for higher performance, and upgrade outdated technology for missile components. FY 2014 and FY 2015 efforts will include the following important capabilities: high precision attitude control, thermal batteries; and fuzes.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2015
- Source ID
- defab24d63df89e3739567abc1e5b76c