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Logistics Elements
Supply Chain Mgmt
Special Test Eqt
Technical Data (O&M)
Manpower (Maint.)
Packaging, Handling,
Shipping, and Transport
Training Responsibilities
Training Devices
New Equipment Tng
(Maintainer, Operator)
Tech Manuals - V&V’d |
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Materiel Systems
Deliver Systems, and Initial Spare / Repair Parts
Support Equipment
Warranty |
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Maintenance Concepts
Organizational
Intermediate
Depot
ICS / CLS
CLS in C/Z or T/O
(Security, Admin, Legal, User-COCOM, Operational) |
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Funding Requirements
Travel (TDY)
Military Construction
Spares |
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| Transitioning to the Field |
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User must be involved in the planning
and execution of system fielding
Start planning early
Service and unit unique
Relationships with gaining commands
Establish a team
Be flexible – things will go wrong
Use lessons learned
Lack of training, manpower, facilities, manuals, etc. can hobble best system, and impact readiness |
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| Environmental Considerations |
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No Sovereign Immunity from Environmental Laws
Hazardous material must be identified and handled properly
Environmental protection is a dynamic area with constantly changing regulations
Keep your Programmatic Environmental Safety Health Evaluation (PESHE) updated and use an environmental management team |
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| Environmental Considerations |
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Who is responsible
PM
Gaining Command
Who Else Should Know
DRMO
Environmental Management Office
Materiel Fielding Team |
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| Does not include profit or MR |
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Criteria:
Substantial savings compared to annual contract buys
Stable requirements
Stable design
Confidence in the cost estimates
Confidence in contractor’s ability to produce
Commitment by the Service, OSD, & Congress to provide the appropriate level of funding for current and out – years
Promotes national security of the United States |
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Limit cost growth & provide stability
Criteria must be met
What is “substantial savings”? No dollar value……
Allows Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) purchases
Funded in annual budget
Funds commitment from DoD / Congress
Politics
SECDEF Involvement
Congressional Approval for contracts > $500M |
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| RDT&E Appropriation allows |
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Proven Contractor / Government Techniques
Use tailored, cross-functional teams
Use DCMA, BMPCOE, DAU AKSS, and ACC
Manage the supply chain
Design for X
Lean principles and quality management system
Design in quality |
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| Dealing with Obsolescence |
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Obsolescence requires constant vigilance…
Obsolescence cannot be eliminated, only mitigated
Open systems vs. proprietary
Provide performance incentives for innovation, open systems architectures
If closed systems – include provision to purchase data rights
Planning for management
Require contractor to manage the supply chain and assess emerging technologies
Stay on top of diminishing sources issue
Contract incentives, SOO, SOW, Sec H, competition, etc.
Consider component breakout (GFE) |
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The general learning curve theory is that people and organizations learn (become more efficient)
when performing repetitive tasks. Under certain conditions there is a usable pattern to this
learning. This pattern can be very useful to the analyst performing cost or price analysis. |
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refers to a series of design approaches
to achieve specific design-build objectives.
Included in DFX are examples
such as Design for Manufacture and
Assembly (DFMA) and Design for
Recycling (DFR). The first example,
DFMA, focuses specifically on defining
product design options for ease of
fabrication and assembly. |
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| Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages (DMSMS) |
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Loss or impending loss of manufacturers of items or suppliers of items or raw materials
May cause material shortages that endanger a weapon system's or equipment's
Development
production
post-production
support capability
DMSMS directly impacts system readiness and availability
Costs the Department of Defense hundreds of millions of dollars annually |
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| ECPs / Product Improvements |
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ECPs – Fact of life
Configuration management process is critical
How to pay for changes (C,Y,A)
If possible, put ECP line in your budget
Color of money
Reprogramming funds
POM / PPBE
Beware of violations: (C) Misappropriation; (Y) Bona Fide Need Rule; (A) Anti-deficiency |
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| can only go to the prime and not the sub or lower level |
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Look inside your own program lines - preferred
Reprogramming (4 types / levels
BTR
Internal Reprogramming (Not internal to the program!!) |
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| Reprogramming (4 types / levels) |
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Congressional Prior Approval Reprogramming (DD 1415-1)
Below Threshold Reprogramming (BTR)
Congressional Notification Letter
Internal Reprogramming (DD 1415-3)
Can only be done with funds available for obligation
Moving dollars in the POM / FYDP is NOT reprogramming
Congress is notified of all reprogramming actions |
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Within same appropriation account
Below the specific $ thresholds and / or %’s |
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| Internal Reprogramming (Not internal to the program!!) |
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Requires approval of USD (C)
Realigns appropriated funds to a different line item or appropriation for the same requirement with no change in purpose
May be used to correct mistakes in appropriations |
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| Preparation: Assess how well the production plan supports your acquisition strategy: 5 M’s of mfg -production readiness, quality system, producibility, statistical process control, critical suppliers, satisfactory IOT&E, Learning Curve, etc. |
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| A regulation administered by the Department of Commerce (DoC) that implements the priorities and allocations authority contained in Title 1 of the Defense Production Act (DPA) of 1950 with respect to industrial resources. The purpose of DPAS is to ensure the timely availability of industrial resources to meet national defense and emergency preparedness requirements. Certain national defense, energy, and homeland security programs are approved for priorities and allocations support. |
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PM conducts to ensure that fielded system continues to meet or exceed FRP thresholds/objectives (cost, performance, support parameters)
Typically Includes Assessment of Availability
MC
NMC(M&S)
Ao |
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| DPAS is largely self excecuting |
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| The materiel release review |
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| (a formal Army activity that is applicable to all Services) is a control mechanism. It verifies that all materiel and logistics deficiencies identified in OT&E have been corrected and that all logistics resources required to support the initial deployment will be available concurrently with the release of the system. |
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| two key criteria that determine whether technical data and computer software may receive protective rights. |
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| These key criteria are (1) source of funding and (2) whether the item has actually been “developed” as defined by the regulations. |
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| The primary purposes of the apportionment process are to (1) achieve the most effective and economical use of amounts made available, and (2) prevent agencies from obligating funds in a manner that would result in a deficiency or require a supplemental appropriation. |
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| Below threshold reprogramming (BTR) |
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| actions are approved by the individual Services and Defense Agencies. This includes those actions that do not meet the criteria for prior approval or internal reprogramming. In the past several years, Congress has made several policy changes relative to BTR actions. |
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| Simply stated, the Bona Fide Need rule (law) requires appropriated funds be used only for goods and services for which a need arises during the period of that appropriation’s availability for obligation |
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The quality management
process shall...: |
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Establish capable processes
Continuously improve processes
Monitor and control critical processes and product variation
Establish mechanisms for field product performance feedback
Implement an effective root cause analysis and corrective action system |
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| Manufacturing Key Product/Process Characteristics (A Risk-Centered Definition) |
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Features Determined to Be Most Important to User [Product]
Situations With High Probability of Defects Occurring, And/Or Going Undetected if they occur [Process]
Consequences of Failure are Unacceptable
Business loss (loss of business, warranty work) [Product]
Major Environment, Safety, or Health Impacts
[Product and/or Process]
High “Re-Do” costs [Process] |
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| Some Common Manufacturing Risks: |
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| Most manufacturing risks are based on how manufacturing resource factors, i.e., manpower, materials, machinery, methods, and measurement - the “5 Ms” - are planned for, configured and allocated to create specific products. |
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Manufacturing and Production Risk Reducers
For DoD/Other Programs |
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Integrated Product Teams (IPTs):
Production Readiness Reviews (PRRs):
-- Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA):
DOD/Service Manufacturing Technology (ManTech) Programs:
Best Manufacturing Practices Center of Excellence (BMPCOE):
The “5 Ms
Supply Chain Management (SCM):
Basic and Advanced Quality Systems |
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| Supply Chain Management (SCM): |
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| This is defined as the management of all activities and organizations associated with the flow and transformation of materials and related information from source to end item user. |
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| The “5 Ms,” i.e., Manpower, Materials, Machines, process Methods, and Measurement systems, are actually generalized types of resources that must be obtained and put in place to manufacture a product. The 5 Ms concept also serves as a risk identification and mitigation technique and failure analysis tool. |
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| Basic and Advanced Quality Systems: |
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| The concept of the “cost of quality” has undergone a major shift since the Deming-inspired success of the Japanese automobile industry in the 1980s. It is now recognized that inspecting quality in after processing is complete, through sampling or 100% inspection, is totally inadequate and far too costly. Instead, quality must be designed and built in before beginning the manufacturing process. Many organizations, including the International Organization for Standards, promote quality in manufacturing |
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| Lean Enterprise Principles, Practices, and Implementers: |
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| “Lean” refers to a fundamental way of thinking, involving all people, functions, and levels of an enterprise that is intended to enable flexibility and waste reduction by focusing efforts on activities that will promote value for the end item user of that organization’s products. |
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| House/Senate Budget Committees (HBC/SBC) |
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| - Committees responsible for crafting the annual concurrent budget resolution. |
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| House Armed Services/Senate Armed Services Committees (HASC/SASC) |
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| - Committees responsible for crafting the annual National Defense Authorization Bill |
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| House/Senate Appropriations Committees (HAC/SAC) |
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| - Committees responsible for the crafting of the 12 annual appropriations bills for the Federal Government. |
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| Concurrent Budget Resolution (CBR |
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| ) – provides an overall blueprint for the congressional budget process. |
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| are UONs affecting two or more DOD Components and are driven by ongoing contingency operations. JUONs are submitted by CCMDs in accordance with this enclosure, and reviewed and validated in accordance with Enclosure E. |
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| are UONs affecting two or more DOD Components and are driven by anticipated contingency operations. JEONs are submitted by CCMDs in accordance with this Enclosure, and reviewed and validated in accordance with Enclosure E. |
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| Validation of JUONs/JEONs |
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| The J-8/DDR is the validation authority for JUONs. The JCB or JROC, as designated by the VCJCS, is the validation authority for JEONs. |
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| refers to an evolving dynamic new process of production covering the total enterprise, embracing all aspects of industrial operations (product development, manufacturing, organization and human resources, customer support) and including customer-supplier networks, which is governed by a systemic set of principles, methods and practices Key lean principles are perfect first-time quality, waste minimization by removing all activities that do not add value, continuous improvement, flexibility, and long-term relationships. |
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| The Defense Production Act (DPA) |
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| is the President’s primary authority to mobilize resources and expedite critical industrial items from the private sector. |
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| is designed to be largely self-executing. However, the Department of Commerce and the DPAS Delegate Agencies |
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Requests for assistance are submitted through the relevant Delegate Agency using the Special Priorities Assistance (SPA) Form BIS-999 if there is:
An urgent need for the item
The applicant has made a reasonable effort to resolve the problem
Timeliness to allow for solution |
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| is defined as the legal relationship and responsibilities between parties to the same contract. The Government has privity of contract with the PRIME CONTRACTOR; the prime contractor has privity of contract with the first-tier SUBCONTRACTOR, but there is generally no privity of contract between the Government and subcontractors. |
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What is it?
A way to monitor and understand the behavior of a process.
Uses statistics to give feedback on abilities and limitations
Help to make economical decisions about causes that affect the process
What does it do?
Focuses attention on detecting and monitoring process variation over time
Distinguishes special from common causes of variation, as a guide to local or management action
Provides a common language for discussing process performance |
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It takes time to train and implement
Statistics must be used with process expertise
“Control” and “Capability” are often used interchangeably
Industry Gurus estimate that 50% or more of all Control charts are worthless |
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| Beyond Low-rate Initial Production (LRIP) Report |
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To meet the statutory requirements of 10 USC 2399, Director, Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E) analyzes the results of IOT&E conducted for each MDAP program. At the conclusion of Initial Operational Test and Evaluation (IOT&E), the Director prepares a report stating the opinion of the Director as to:
• Whether the test and evaluation (T&E) performed were adequate; and
• Whether the results of such T&E confirm that the items or components actually tested are effective and suitable for combat, and |
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| Director, Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E) Annual Report |
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| DOT&E prepares an annual Operational Test and Evaluation (OT&E) and Live Fire Test and Evaluation (LFT&E) report, in both classified and unclassified form, summarizing all OT&E and LFT&E activities, and addressing the adequacy of test resources within the Department of Defense during the previous fiscal year (10 USC 139). The report includes the status of information assurance, Electromagnetic Environmental Effects, and interoperability for each program. |
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