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Appendix C: Reprinted Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
Appendix C: Reprinted Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
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Air Force (USAF) sustainment planning early in the development life cycle held in December 2018 in Washington, DC, is reprinted here in its entirety.
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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 Re-architecture, 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 devel opment processes.
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The focus of the stabilization effort is to support the current fleet of more than 350 F-35 jets with specific emphases on addressing software problems affecting fleet operations, refreshing obsolete software, and meeting threshold cyber security requirements. Projected benefits include reductions in maintenance administrator times, reduction in aircraft turnaround times, reduction on reliance of Contractor Logistics Support (CLS)
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, joined the meet ing 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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Projected benefits of CBM+ include increased productivity, shorter maintenance cycles, lower costs, and increased availability and reliability for the entire USAF enterprise. CBM+ is not a new effort but there is recent vigor at the highest levels of USAF leadership to push for rapid results.
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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 inven tory 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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4 U.S. Government Accountability Office, 2018, Weapon System Sustainment: Selected Air Force and Navy Aircraft Generally Have Not Met Availability Goals, and DOD and Navy Guidance Need to Be Clarified, GAO-18-678, September, https://www.gao.gov/assets/700/694571.pdf.
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5 U.S. Government Accountability Office, 2018, Weapon System Sustainment: Selected Air Force and Navy Aircraft Generally Have Not Met Availability Goals, and DOD and Navy Guidance Need to Be Clarified, GAO-18-678, September, https://www.gao.gov/assets/700/694571.pdf.
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HCSW and ARRW are using rapid prototyping authorized by Section 804 of the Fiscal Year 2016 National Defense Authorization Act.6 With Section 804 authorities, "the rapid prototyping pathway shall provide for the use of innovative technologies to rapidly develop fieldable prototypes to demonstrate new capabilities and meet emerging military needs. The objective of an acquisition program under this pathway shall be to field a prototype that can be demonstrated in an operational environment and provide for a residual operational capability within five years of the development of an approved requirement."7 Brigadier General Genatempo described the differences between sustainment in the aircraft arena and sustainment in the munitions arena.
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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 manual)
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briefed the committee on the efforts taking place at the USAF LCMC. Product Support Colonel Humphrey described the numerous sustainment-related activities that must take place during the entire system life cycle (see Figure 3)
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They are as follows: • Product Support Management • Supply Support • Packaging, Handling, Storage and Transportation (PHS&T) • Maintenance Planning and Management • Design Interface • Sustaining Engineering • Technical Data • Computer Resources • Facilities & Infrastructure • Manpower & Personnel • Support Equipment • Training and Training Support Colonel Humphrey described a couple of initiatives aimed at improving the digital integration of these elements.
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She described Director Cynthia Abbott's aggressive approach to leadership training; collaboration with DAU to develop a new product support manager (PSM) course; restructure of the existing competency management tool to better align to the 12 product support elements, ideally to allow identification of gaps in the workforce; and help with moving people around as needed based on skill sets.
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For example, commercial aircraft fly nearly 12 hours per day on predictable routes while the USAF operates in unpredictable circumstances. Furthermore, the commercial aircraft industry primarily values airworthiness while the USAF values effectiveness.
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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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All images are courtesy of workshop participants. PLANNING COMMITTEE: The Honorable Frank Kendall, Chair; VADM (ret.)
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74 W e a p o n s S y s t e m S u s t a i n m e n t P l a n n i n g E a r l y in the Development Life Cycle AFSB STAFF: Ellen Chou, Director; George Coyle, Senior Program Officer; Ryan Murphy, Program Officer; Adrianna Hargrove, Financial Associate; arguerite M Schneider, Administrative Coordinator; Steven Darbes, Research Associate; C atherine Puma, Research Assistant SPONSORS: This workshop was supported by the U.S. Air Force.
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