Problem: Software maintenance, sustainment and modernization is an increasingly complex and dynamic function for any business. Preserving legacy capabilities operating on obsolete hardware or developing new skills to adopt to the age of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other cutting-edge technologies poses many challenges. This environment also presents commercial software organizations with workforce challenges related to hiring, retaining, and developing a diverse workforce while remaining competitive. The USAF faces the same challenges regarding talent development and cost competitiveness in the software maintenance and sustainment space.
Solution/Approach: The overall objective of this initiative is to create and demonstrate a novel Dynamic Rate Model that can help companies and military organizations quickly and effectively analyze cost implications of a specific organizational structure. Using the SWEGs as a surrogate, this effort will focus on increasing the effectiveness and efficiency to enable better maintenance and sustainment practices, providing a higher quality of goods and services and increasing competitiveness between industry entities that will reduce costs.
Benefit: Lessons learned can be utilized by private industry to improve the business processes associated with technology upgrades and the requirements intrinsic to their maintenance, sustainment and general success.
Impact on Warfighter:
- Reduced maintenance and sustainment costs
- Improve pricing competitiveness
- Scenario modeling to understand impacts to capabilities that are transferred, kept in place or co-mingled
- Allows leaders to make more informed decisions
DOD Participation:
- U.S. Air Force Sustainment Center
- 76 SWEG
- 309 SWEG
- 402 SWEG
Industry Participation:
- A.T. Kearney Public Sector and Defense Services, LLC
- NCMS
