Problems with Maintenance Planning on Joint Service Acquisition Programs: An Air Force Perspective

摘要

Joint service acquisition of defense systems have the potential to provide cost savings to the Department of Defense by eliminating duplicated efforts. However, these types of programs experience many problems during their acquisition, particularly in the maintenance planning area. The author discovered that most of the problems in maintenance planning are in coordination/decisionmaking, maintenance/operational concept differences, and the differences in service business practices. Coordination/decisionmaking problems are most often affected by the lack of collocated logistics personnel. Maintenance/operational concept differences are most often hampered by the inability to define requirements, differences, and limitations imposed by service operational and maintenance concepts. Important issues affecting service operational and maintenance concepts. Important issues affecting service business practices are the unequal emphasis of logistics on joint programs and the way requirements are determined. After discovering these problems, the author makes recommendations for improvement.