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2 Examining How Sustainment Planning Should Be Evaluated Throughout the Development Process
2 Examining How Sustainment Planning Should Be Evaluated Throughout the Development Process
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In addition, prudent decisions should be made at the appropriate point during the development phase concerning whether a weapons system should introduce new and innovative sustainment modernization approaches that may be adapted more broadly outside of the specific weapon system and/or whether sustainment processes, equipment, and business systems that are either in broader Air Force use or contemplated for use should be required for the new system. As mentioned in Chapter 1, the most important decisions in sustainment planning should be made early and planning and evaluation of planning must begin in earnest during Material Solution Analysis and mature in specificity and knowledge at each ensuing stage of the acquisition process: technology development, engineering and manufacturing development, and initial operating capability.
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Develop and implement a comprehensive product support strategy that focuses on and improves reliability and material availability, increases operaional availability, reduces operating and support costs, and is fully t consistent with and supports Air Force sustainment enterprise moderni zation plans.
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and USAF guidance, such as the Product Support Checklists, Product Support Guide, Supply Chain Reference Guides, Busi ness Case Analysis Checklists, Guides for Achieving Reliability, Maintainability, and Availability, among others, are replete with both examples and requirements with various sustainment metrics.3 Box 2.1 captures some of the key metrics for tracking sustainment activities.4 The committee recognizes the difficulty of capturing traditional sustainment metrics early in a weapons system's life cycle. However, there are measures, surro gate measures using legacy systems, modeling, testing, and simulation techniques, engineering estimates, and analysis of early fielded system maintenance that should be used to inform Milestone A, B, and C decisions.
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"Uptime" is the mean time between failures (how often the system breaks) ,"downtime" is the sum of the mean time to repair (how long the system takes to fix)
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Recommendation 2-2: The Air Force should task an appropriate Air Force sustainment and modernization organization to train program executive officers, program managers, and product support managers to create, under stand, and use meaningful sustainment metrics prior to Milestone A Specifically, sustainment metrics should • Link to system-level sustainment metrics and objectives and to overall Air Force sustainment enterprise modernization plans; • Be appropriate in scope and responsibility; • Include specific and quantifiable units of measure; • Include specific acceptable ranges or thresholds; • Be able to motivate and inspire desired long-term behaviors; • Be easily understood and accepted; • Be easy to collect and verify; • Be readily accessible; and • Be analyzed to provide timely feedback.5 Finding 2-2: The Air Force has provided extensive guidance on the Life Cycle Sustainment Plan (LCSP)
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Recommendation 2-3: The Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for L ogistics and Product Support (SAF/AQD) should revise Life Cycle Sus tainment Plan planning guidance to ensure that processes and reporting demonstrate critical thinking, focus on expected outcomes, detail strategies for meeting sustainment key performance parameters and key system attri butes, and include approaches for performing evaluations consistent with this guidance.
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However, they do not reveal meaningful enterprise planning activities that exhibit critical thinking regarding essential long-term life-cycle sustainment strategies or risk management and mitigation approaches. The CRH and tanker LCSPs begin with a section on sustainment performance require ments.
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Based on the documents and presen tations that the committee evaluated, the committee found nothing that precludes acquisition professionals from including a separate technical evaluation factor that considers total ownership costs (inclusive of manpower, inherent reliability, infrastructure requirements, fuel, repair concept) in the proposer's design for sus tainment for new platforms and major modernization efforts.
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Recommendation 2-4: The Air Force should include the proposer's design for sustainment with technical justification based on total ownership cost analysis and trade-offs as a technical evaluation factor in all future solicita tions for new platforms and major modernization efforts. Air Force acquisition and contracting professionals may want to consider using evaluated price adjustments for high payoff/low risk sustainment cost reductions.
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This leader should identify enterprise level evaluation metrics that empower horizontal analysis and direct input from logistics, sustainment, field, depot, and program offices aligned with the sustainment maturity matrix as captured in Figure 2.1. O T P D P O E R • Modeling Life • System • Performance • Reliability P R I Cycle Engineering Testing Enhancement O D F V Opportunities • Component • CBM Tools, • CBM Refresh R E O E • Sustainment Reliability Methods, and • Software T S R Design Engineering Processes Upgrades U I M O N G A U Attributes • Reliability • Reliability • Support I N N T (CBM, Fault Growth Curves Maturation Equipment T C Tolerant, • Information • Enterprise Refresh Y I E C Reliability, Systems Validation N O Data/Sensor • Enterprise • Data Analysis S T Information)
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