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Early Sustainment Planning for the United States Air Force: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
Early Sustainment Planning for the United States Air Force: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
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This workshop was conducted as part of a broader study by the Committee on USAF Sustainment Planning Early in the Development Life Cycle to focus on addressing challenges and identifying opportunities to effectively design and execute sustainment planning across USAF systems and platforms. Workshop participants heard from a wide range of subject-matter experts from government, industry, and academia to begin examination of how the USAF can enhance and improve its sustainment planning processes.
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ALIS Next Rearchitecture, and (3) Agile Software Development Pilot -- all with the end goal of a single product incorporating current ALIS functionality on a new architecture with a development team delivering updates using agile development processes.
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, joined the meeting along with Major Todd Downs, Branch Chief for Sustainment Innovation at Headquarters AMC, and Colonel Rob Jackson, Chief, Mobility Aircraft Division at Headquarters AMC. The panel, led by Brigadier General Bleymaier, briefed the committee on Conditions Based Maintenance Plus (CBM+)
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Major Todd Downs, who spent 1 year at Delta TechOps, where they have been utilizing predictive maintenance tools, said Delta cut inventory levels by 50 percent for a cost savings of $500 million solely by being able to better predict the probability of failure. Predictive Maintenance Alert Loop The Predictive Maintenance Alert Loop (PMAL)
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TAILORING SECTION 804 AUTHORITIES FOR SUSTAINMENT PLANNING Brigadier General Anthony W Genatempo (Program Executive Officer for Weapons and Director of the Armament Directorate, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center [LCMC]
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He stressed the importance of acquiring the product support data necessary to both plan for and support a weapons system throughout its life cycle. This is accomplished by identifying early on what logistics support products (e.g., technical publications like maintenance task analysis, fault rate analysis, and a repair 7 Public Law 114-92 -- November 25, 2015, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016, https://www.govinfo.gov/ content/pkg/PLAW-114publ92/pdf/PLAW-114publ92.pdf.
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Colson ended the presentation discussing the range of resources offered by DAU, including courses, online workflow learning, life-cycle logistics tools, and its mission assistance activities. AIR FORCE LIFE CYCLE MANAGEMENT CENTER, AIR FORCE MATERIEL COMMAND, PRESENTATION Colonel Theresa B
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Evolution of Life-Cycle Management Colonel Humphrey explained that LCMC is relatively new and maturing. In 2012, LCMC IOC and Logistics split from Acquisition as a separate functional office, effectively joining acquisition and sustainment into the life cycle and placing logistics on equal footing with other functional offices.
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Role of the Sustainment Center Stamey noted that currently the AFSC's only formal role is to help coordinate and review life-cycle management plans (see Figure 4)
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To facilitate this, Stamey suggests the USAF begin pooling data rights experts to either embed into program offices or assemble into a repository with sufficient bandwidth to support program offices that are aware of their existence.
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The planning committee's role was limited to planning the event. The statements made are those of the individual workshop participants and do not necessarily represent the views of all participants, the planning committee, or the National Academies.
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