Using Microcomputer-Based Logistics Models to Enhance Supportability Assessment for the USAF Productivity, Reliability, Availability and Maintainability (PRAM) Program Office: A Tailored Approach.

摘要

This thesis sought to demonstrate how microcomputer-based logistics models could be used to enhance the analysis of major project proposals for the USAF Productivity, Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability (PRAM) Program Office. The study starts by reviewing technology insertion, focusing on the AF process. Evolution of the USAF PRAM Program Office is discussed, and the process that PRAM uses to assess technology is addressed. Then, the evolution of computer-based logistics support models is reviewed, focusing on the capabilities that current models offer the supportability analyst. Three 'typical' PRAM projects were selected for analysis. A structured approach was taken to determine the decision orientation and data available for each project. Analyses were performed using two models, the Statistically Improved Life Cycle Cost (SILCC) and Cost Analysis Analysis and Strategy Assessment (CASA) models. Research demonstrated that more thorough economic analysis was possible using logistics models. In two of the projects analyzed, the findings revealed the original PRAM analysis had overestimated the cost savings of the proposed improvement. Additionally, models were used to perform detailed sensitivity analyses, thereby mitigating the effects of data uncertainty. Theses. (edc)