Human Resources, Logistics and Cost Factors in Weapon System Development: Demonstration in the Full Scale Development Phase of Aircraft System Acquisition

摘要

This report documents the final part of a three-part demonstration of the coordinated human resources technology (CHRT) on an aircraft acquisition program. CHRT is an integration of five human resource technologies: maintenance manpower modeling; human resource in design trade-offs; instructional system development; job guide development; and system ownership costing. The CHRT methodology also includes a consolidated data base (CDB) which services the five integrated technologies. CHRT was conceived and developed (a) to assess the impact of system design and support plans on human resource, logistics, and cost throughout acquisition, and (b) to facilitate the implementation of an integrated personnel, training, and technical manual support approach. In this part of the demonstration, CHRT and the CDB were applied to the avionics and landing gear systems of the Advanced Medium STOL Transport (AMST) using data projected for the minimum engineering development phase. This phase may be considered similar to full-scale development but lesser in scope. The following results were achieved. First, manpower requirements, training requirements, technical manual requirements, reliability, maintainability, and system ownership costs were assessed and quantified for several avionics and landing gear design and support alternatives at various levels of system detail. Second, a sample integrated training program and technical manual were prepared for a selected landing gear maintenance task. Third, the consolidated data base was continued and expanded for both the avionics and landing gear systems. (Author)