Report of the Defense Science Board 1981 Summer Study Panel on Operational Readiness with High Performance Systems

摘要

The major conclusions of the study are: (1) High performance is not necessarily incompatible with readiness as long as DoD demands and manages acquisition and readiness to that goal; (2) While high technology should be exploited, that objective must be disciplined by a fixed requirement that all systems meet stringent reliability, maintainability, and useability standards before and after entering the force; (3) The chief cause of low operational availability is low reliability coupled with the lack of spares at the maintenance work sites. A shortage of spares is a Dod management, not a specific weapon system, shortcoming; and (4) Under current management practices, readiness aspects of systems development are sacrificed when time and funds run short.