3.5.4 Acquisition Logistics

Question 1

Opportunity for Life-Cycle Cost Savings falls away before ____.

Answer 1

Preliminary Design Review (PDR) and Critical Design Review (CDR)

Question 2

What (when and why) is Product Support Analysis (PSA) or supportability analysis?

Answer 2

 What: is a body of procedures and methods used to define system performance and supportability goals
– Failure Mode, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) Analysis, Level of Repair Analysis (LORA), Maintenance Task Analysis (MTA)

 When: Supportability analysis is conducted as part of the Systems Engineering process

 Why: Supportability analysis ensures supportability is included as a system
performance requirement, and the system is concurrently developed with the support system and infrastructure in order to optimize readiness and LCC

Question 3

 The DoD has made it a requirement that contract specifications (including
system design) contain reliability and maintainability as performance parameters
 Failure to satisfy those parameters will ____:

Answer 3

– Increase ownership costs
– Reduce RAM supportability metrics
– Decrease overall readiness of the system

Question 4

What is an essential characteristic of supply support?

Answer 4

Establish Allowance Parts Lists
(APL) and Coordinated Shipboard Allowance List (COSAL)