SYSTEMIC APPROACH REGARDING THE FIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, MAINTENABILITY AND LIFE CYCLE COSTS OF MILITARY EQUIPMENTS
SYSTEMIC APPROACH REGARDING THE FIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, MAINTENABILITY AND LIFE CYCLE COSTS OF MILITARY EQUIPMENTS

Summary/Abstract: : The Ministry of National Defence expects to acquire reliable and maintainable military equipment that are of high quality, readily available, and able to satisfy user needs with measurable improvements to mission capability and operational support, in a timely manner, and at a fair and reasonable price. There are three mandatory sustainment requirements to ensure that effective sustainment is addressed and accomplished over the life cycle for all newly developed and fielded systems. The value of the Sustainment KPP (Key Performance Parameter) is derived from the operational requirements of the weapon system, assumptions for its operational use, and the planned logistical support to sustain it. In order for the program manager to develop a complete system to provide warfighting capability, sustainment objectives must be established and performance of the entire system measured against those metrics. DoD Regulations I.1000 should require program managers to formulate a viable Strategy on Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Cost (RAM-C) and document it in the Systems Engineering Plan (SEP) and Life Cycle Sustainment Plan (LCSP).

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