NCMS Project #: 142364
Problem: Inefficient and ineffective sustainment activities are costly in many ways, resulting in increased downtime, increased costs, burden on the global supply chain, excessive shipping and storage, and unfortunately, fatal accidents. For the Department of Defense (DOD), sustainment is typically the longest and most expensive phase of the system acquisition lifecycle, reportedly 70% of the total cost. As such, it offers significant opportunity for cost savings or avoidance.
Benefit: The Sustainment Technology and Innovation Program roadmap will provide several benefits for the Army and the public. The roadmap can be shared widely across the larger sustainment community to be leveraged by industry for the public good of increasing safety, cost effectiveness and competitiveness.
Solution/Approach: The overall objective of this initiative is to develop a roadmap to create a coordinated and collaborative program that assesses sustainment technology needs in order to deliver sustainment technology solutions over the entire materiel lifecycle for large, complex and globally distributed sustainment operations.
Impact on Warfighter:
- Improve warfighter readiness
- Increase weapon system reliability
- Decrease maintenance and sustainment costs
DOD Participation:
- U.S. Army
- U.S. Navy (observer)
- U.S. Air Force (observer)
- Office of the Secretary of Defense (observer)
Industry Participation:
- Jensen Hughes
- NCMS
Benefit Area(s):
- Cost savings
- Repair turnaround time
- Mx avoidance & reliability
- Obsolescence
- Positive environmental impact
- Safety
- Mx management improvement
- Improved readiness
- Reliability improvement
Mx Focus Area:
- Facilities and Industrial Process Modernization
