Module 9

Question 1

Life cycle sustainment involves:

Answer 1

Comprehensive and early planning, development, and implementation strategy that is affordable, effective, and performance-driven.

Logistics is an inherent part of the system’s design, development, testing, and production!

Question 2

Name 3 tenets of Life Cycle Management?

Answer 2

Single-point accountability
Development and implementation of a Product Support Strategy (PSS)
Regular reviews, revalidation, and update of product support and sustainment strategies, including the Business Case Analysis (BCA)

Question 3

The Produce Support Strategy describes?

Answer 3

The Product: Support Strategy (PSS) describes the approach to integrating sustainment requirements into the system’s design, sustainment influence, and required technical, business, and management activities.

Question 4

During which life cycle phase does a Program Manger (PM) have the most influence on the cost of a system?

Answer 4

Materiel Solution Analysis (MSA)

Question 5

What are key considerations of supportability?

Answer 5

Logistics footprint
Reliability
Availability
Maintainability
Other logistics technologies

Question 6

Reliability answers what?

Answer 6

How long will a system continuously work?

Mean Time Between Failures

Question 7

Maintainability answers what?

Answer 7

How long does it take to repair a system?

Mean Time to Repair

Question 8

Availability answers what question?

Answer 8

Is the system on hand and ready to perform when needed?

Question 9

In a transactional arrangement a commercial provider strives to reduce workload and equipment failure, True or False?

Answer 9

False. In a transactional based arrangement, a commercial provider strives to increase workload in order to increase revenue, The opposite is true in PBL arrangements, whereby the provider is incentivized to reduce the number of repairs and the cost of labor used in the repair process in order to increase profit.

Question 10

What are the top-level outcome-based metrics according to the JCIDs?

Answer 10

Availability
Reliability
O&S Cost
Mean Down Time

Question 11

PBL contracts are …?

Answer 11

PBL contracts are used for the purchase of sustainment in an integrated, affordable product support package. PBL contracts can cover weapon systems, subsystems or components. Effective PBL contracts contain core attributes necessary to deliver improved reliability and availability performance at lower cost.

Question 12

Incentives may be related to?

Answer 12

Contract type
Contract length
Incentive fees (or penalties)