GROUND TRUTH: LESSONS LEARNED

摘要

The Army has fielded many great systems to defeat any adversary. In addition to those fielded systems, the Army is currently developing 18 major defense acquisition programs and more than 100 other lower-categorized systems. During system development, Army acquisition professionals are responsible for crafting a sustainment strategy that ensures that the materiel, logistics and process-support operations will remain in place until the mission is completed. Sustainment continues to have huge cost implications, often reaching billions of dollars annually and typically accounting for nearly 60 percent of a system's total life-cycle cost.