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• Each Service has its tailored approach to site activation based upon specific mission requirements. Site Activation encompasses all of the product support elements.
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The twelve Integrated Product Support IPS Elements include the following:

The twelve IPS Elements are identified in Appendix A of the DoD Product Support Manager PSM Guidebook and they are further defined and expanded upon in the Integrated Product Support IPS Element Guidebook.

The twelve IPS Elements, encompass what were historically referred to as the traditional ten Integrated Logistics Support ILS Elements, however are more broad in scope and more multi-disciplinary. The migration of the elements are illustrated in the adjacent figure. The enhancements when compared to the former ten ILS elements can be described as follows:

The Product Support Management IPS Element has been introduced to address the more enterprise role of the Product Support Manager over that of the traditional ILS Manager and includes contract development and management, budget planning, IPT management, and other business, financial, contract and operational responsibilities.

The second new Product Support Element is Sustaining Engineering, intended to carry forward systems engineering and design interface activities to product support during sustainment. The Maintenance Planning and Management Product Support Element now includes Management activities such as executing the planning strategies during fielding and deployment and continuing through the Operations Sustainment O S phase.

Training and Training Devices is now Training and Training Support. The whole concept of training is no longer fragmented into classroom training with special devices such as simulators to add realism. Distance learning and the whole immersion of the student within the simulation area now makes the concept of training a continuous and more realistic experience.

Facilities has been expanded into Facilities and Infrastructure. Due to trends such as globalization and reliance on information technologies, product support considerations in this area go well beyond brick and mortar facilities.

Finally, Computer Resources Support is new entitled as simply Computer Resources to account for the significant role that information technology and the necessary computer infrastructure plays to develop strategies for and to execute Life Cycle Product Support.

According to Appendix A of the DoD Product Support Manager PSM Guidebook, the 12 Integrated Product Support IPS Elements include:

Computer Resources and Software Support encompasses the facilities, hardware, software, documentation, manpower, and personnel needed to operate and support mission critical computer hardware/software systems. As the primary end item, support equipment, and training devices increase in complexity, more and more software is being used. The expense associated with the design and maintenance of software programs is so high that one cannot afford not to manage this process effectively. It is standard practice to establish some form of computer resource working group to accomplish the necessary planning and management of computer resources support.

Design Interface is the relationship of logistics-related design parameters to readiness and support resource requirements. Logistics-related design parameters include the following:

Reliability and Maintainability R M

Survivability and vulnerability

Standardization and interoperability

These logistics-related design parameters are expressed in operational terms rather than inherent values and specifically relate to system readiness objectives and support costs of the system. Design interface really boils down to evaluating all facets of an acquisition, from design to support and operational concepts for logistical impacts to the system itself and the logistics infrastructure.

Facilities and Infrastructure consists of the permanent and semi-permanent real property assets required to support a system, including studies to define types of facilities or facility improvements, location, space needs, environmental requirements, and equipment. Certainly the non-availability of facilities can be just as damaging to a system as would be the lack of spare parts, trained personnel, or support equipment. A last minute decision to deploy a system to a different locale may require extraordinary efforts to correct facility delays.

Maintenance Planning and Management establishes maintenance concepts and requirements for the life of the system. It includes, but is not limited to, levels of repair, repair times, testability requirements, support equipment needs, manpower skills, facilities, Interservice, organic and contractor mix of repair responsibility, site activation, etc. This element has a great impact on the planning, development, and acquisition of other logistics support elements.

Manpower and Personnel involves the identification and acquisition of personnel military civilian with the skills and grades required to operate, maintain, and support systems over their lifetime. Early identification is essential. If the needed manpower is an additive requirement to existing manpower levels of an organization, a formalized process of identification and justification must be made to higher authority. Add to this the necessity to train these persons, new and existing, in their respective functions on the new system, and the seriousness of any delays in the accomplishment of this element becomes apparent. In the case of military requirements, manpower needs can, and in many cases do, ripple all the way back to recruiting quotas.

Packaging, Handling, Storage, and Transportation PHS T is the combination of resources, processes, procedures, design, considerations, and methods to ensure that all system, equipment, and support items are preserved, packaged, handled, and transported properly, including environmental considerations, equipment preservation for the short and long storage, and transportability.

Supply Support consists of all management actions, procedures, and techniques necessary to determine requirements to acquire, catalog, receive, store, transfer, issue and dispose of spares, repair parts, and supplies. In layman terms, this means having the right spares, repair parts, and supplies available, in the right quantities, at the right place, at the right time, at the right price. The process includes provisioning for initial support, as well as acquiring, distributing, and replenishing inventories. Keep in mind that an aircraft can be grounded just as quickly for not having the oil to put in the engine as it can for not having the engine.

Support Equipment is made up of all equipment mobile or fixed required to support the operation and maintenance of a system. This includes ground handling and maintenance equipment, tools, metrology and calibration equipment, and manual and automatic test equipment. During the acquisition of systems, program managers are expected to decrease the proliferation of support equipment into the inventory by minimizing the development of new support equipment and giving more attention to the use of existing government or commercial equipment.

Sustaining Engineering spans those technical tasks engineering and logistics investigations and analyses to ensure continued operation and maintenance of a system with managed i.e., known risk. Sustaining Engineering involves the identification, review, assessment, and resolution of deficiencies throughout a system s life cycle. Sustaining Engineering both returns a system to its baselined configuration and capability, and identifies opportunities for performance and capability enhancement. It includes the measurement, identification and verification of system technical and supportability deficiencies, associated root cause analyses, evaluation of the potential for deficiency correction and the development of a range of corrective action options.

Technical Data Management represents recorded information of scientific or technical nature, regardless of form or character such as manuals and drawings. Computer programs and related software are not technical data; documentation of computer programs and related software is. Technical manuals and engineering drawings are the most expensive and probably the most important data acquisitions made in support of a system. It is the technical manuals that provide the instructions for operation and maintenance of a system.

Training and Training Support consists of the policy, processes, procedures, techniques, training devices, and equipment used to train civilian and military personnel to acquire, operate and support a system. This includes individual and crew training, new equipment training, initial, formal, and on-the-job training. Though the greatest amount of training is accomplished just prior to the fielding of a system, it must be remembered that in most programs, a large number of individuals must also be trained during system development to support the system test and evaluation program.

AFI 63-101/20-101 Integrated Life Cycle Management

AFI 63-131 Modification Program Management

Defense Acquisition Guidebook Chapter 5, Life Cycle Logistics, provides an overview of key LCL activities and outputs in the context of the Defense Acquisition Management Framework, to help program managers effectively implement LCL, Total Life Cycle Systems Management TLCSM, and Performance-Based Logistics PBL.

Defense Acquisition Guidebook Chapter 5.1.3.1 - Product Support Package provides a top-level overview of Product Support and its elements in the context of the development of a Performance-Based Logistics Strategy.

Defense Acquisition Guidebook Chapter 3.1 - Design for Supportability provides an excellent overview of the Systems Operational Effectiveness SOE concept in designing for support and balancing effective and cost.

Designing and Assessing Supportability in DoD Weapons Systems: A Guide to Increased Reliability and Reduced Logistics Footprint, is a detailed discussion of the systems engineering effort and the interfaces between design, reliability, maintainability, supportability and the impact/influence on logistics.

Defense Acquisition Guidebook Chapter 5.4.1 Define Supportability Objectives addresses the Pre-acquisition Phase opportunities to influence weapon systems supportability and affordability by balancing threat scenarios, technology opportunities, and operational requirements. Emphasizing the critical performance-sustainment link, desired user capabilities should be defined in terms not only of objective metrics e.g. speed, lethality of performance to meet mission requirements affordably, but also of the full range of operational requirements logistics footprint, supportability criteria to sustain the mission over the long term. Assessment and demonstration of technology risk includes those related to sustainment and to product support. Reliability, reduced logistics footprint, and reduced system life cycle cost are most effectively achieved through inclusion from the very beginning of a program – starting with the definition of needed capabilities.

DoD Product Support Manager PSM Guidebook is written for the PSM and provides an easy reference addressing key requirements for managing product support across the entire life cycle of the weapon system.

DoD Product Support Business Case Analysis BCA Guidebook provides overall guidance for conducting analyses dealing with Product Support decisions. This guidebook should be used in conjunction with other analytical tools and guidance tailored to specific types of BCAs

Integrated Product Support IPS Element Guidebook picks up where the PSM Guidebook leaves off in describing the new 12 IPS Elements which are an extension of the traditional 10 Integrated Logistics Support ILS elements in order to accommodate the expanded, enterprise-level role of the PSM. It breaks down the IPS Element sub-topics from two levels of indenture to three or more levels of increasing detail. It explains the who, what, where, when, how and why for the major deliverables of each IPS Element by life cycle acquisition phase.

Logistics Assessment LA Guidebook provides leaders with a health assessment of each Integrated Product Support element and assist in making informed decisions at milestones and/or at key program decision points.

DoD Logistics Assessment Guidebook July 2011 - Appendix A: Integrated Product Support, Product Support Management Criteria, Section 1.0

The Naval Air Acquisition Center Acquisition Guide provides excellent training in Product Support requirements and activities as well as Product Support Plan preparation.

LOG 211 Supportability Analysis

ACQ 315 Understanding Industry

DAU Continuous Learning Modules

CLL012 Supportability Analysis

CLL031 PBL Contracting Strategies

CLL032 Preventing Counterfeit Parts from Entering the DoD System

CLL033 Logistician s Responsibilities during Major Technical Reviews

CLL038 Provisioning and Cataloging

CLL041 Life Cycle Cost LCC Analysis Tools

CLL057 Level of Repair Analysis LORA Fundamentals

CLL058 Level of Repair Analysis LORA Implementation

CLL051 System Retirement, Materiel Disposition, Reclamation, Demilitarization and Disposal

CLM 200 Item Unique Identification

CLM 201 Serialized Item Management.

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Life Cycle Sustainment Plan Short Course LCSP-Short-Course- 08-19-11 1. Lesson Objectives site activation Facilities Manger S/W Maint Manger. Approving The LCSP.