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A Supply Alliance is a business relationship between a buyer and a supplier.  They both focus on achieving continuous improvements while squeezing costs out.  These alliances emphasize the inflow of innovation from the supplier partner and foster a relationship based upon mutual trust and the pursuit of common goals. The alliance members may share information, resources, […]

The Product Support Strategy (PSS) is part of the Acquisition Strategy and addresses Product Support as in life cycle sustainment and continuous improvement of product affordability, reliability, and supportability. It ensures that system support and life cycle affordability considerations are addressed and documented (including the depot maintenance requirements and the implications of core requirements) and

Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) (10 U.S.C. §2474) for Depot-Level Maintenance is defined as “a public-private partnership for depot-level maintenance under a cooperative arrangement between an organic depot-level maintenance activity and one or more private sector entities to perform DoD or Defense-related work and/or to utilize DoD depot facilities and equipment. Other government organizations, such as program

Performance-Based Life-Cycle Product Support (PBL) implementation captures the range of capability solutions that could be employed on a program regarding support/logistics. The approach is incremental, in that each alternative builds on the previous category. In all cases, the system’s sustainment parameters are projected and measured during the design process and then re-assesses once the system

Product Support is the application of the package [called Product Support Package (PSP)] of integrated logistics elements and support functions necessary to sustain the readiness and operational capability of a system. It includes the logistics elements of manpower and personnel, technical data, facilities, maintenance planning, supply support, and computer resource support. They must be integrated

The Product Support Manager (PSM) is responsible for managing the support functions required to field and maintain the readiness and operational capability of major weapon systems, subsystems, and components. They’re also responsible for accomplishing the overall integration of Product Support through government activities or via a contract with a commercial organization. The support functions the

Materiel Availability (Am) is the percentage of the total inventory of a system operationally capable (ready for tasking) of performing an assigned mission at a given time, based on materiel condition. This can be expressed mathematically as: Materiel Availability also indicates the percentage of time that a system is operationally capable of performing an assigned

A Non-Developmental Item (NDI) was coined by Congress in 1986 to describe items that were previously developed. NDI according to (FAR 2.101) means: Any previously developed item of supply used exclusively for governmental purposes by a Federal agency, a State or local government, or a foreign government with which the United States has a mutual

  A Performance-Based Agreements (PBA) documents the negotiated and agreed-upon level of support and associated funding required to meet performance requirements. A PBA with the user states the objectives that form the basis of the Performance-Based Life-Cycle Product Support effort to meet operational requirements. They establish the negotiated baseline of performance and corresponding support necessary

The Maintenance & Sustainment strategy is developed from the projected system’s reliability and the preliminary sustainment Concept of Operations (CONOPS) to meet the operational requirement during the Technology Development (TD) Phase. It’s used to determine the supply chain performance requirements (Core Capability Planning and Analysis), along with the key enabling features needed to implement the