Technology for the United States Navy and Marine Corps, 2000-2035 Becoming a 21st-Century Force Volume 8: Logistics (1997) / Chapter Skim
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3 Support Weapon System Readiness
3 Support Weapon System Readiness
Pages 27-36
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The direct maintenance cost of aircraft and ships is at least $15 billion per year.2 Reducing the necessary maintenance needed and the 1Calculated from FY 1995 data drawn from the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense (Personnel and Readiness) , Defense Manpower Data Center, Seaside, California.
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This will entail using information technology to bring together the acquisition process, configuration management, computer-based maintenance training, troubleshooting and repair, equipment performance monitoring, and parts supply. In the following sections, the panel describes how information technology can change the way logistic tasks are accomplished in each of the above-listed areas and how it can contribute to creating a simulation-based acquisition (SBA)
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Prior to design, the mission employment of a weapon system and its support concept can be simulated to determine key reliability and maintainability features. Initial designs can be simulated in virtual reality, directly from the computer-aided design database, to check such features as access to components for maintenance and vulnerability to battle damage.
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Stocking spare parts, issuing technical data, and training technicians become expensive guessing games when the true configuration is uncertain. The single, integrated weapon system database offers the starting point for establishing sound configuration management.
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It will be tied electronically to the supply source so that the correct part can be identified, ordered, and provided, all without the need for error-prone manual input of data. Maintenance actions, successful and unsuccessful, will be recorded automatically in the master configuration management database and will be available for use in assessing equipment maintenance needs, technician training, and redesign requirements.
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The Navy's experience with the shipboard condition assessment system shows similar results, i.e., both a significant decrease in preventive maintenance time and a reduction in troubleshooting time.5 EQUIPMENT PERFORMANCE MONITORING The next major advance in equipment maintenance will be the ability to 4Teitelbaum, Daniel, and Jesse Orlansky.
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In other cases, the data will be transmitted from the equipment while it is in use to a maintenance base or performance monitoring center, enabling technicians or engineers to alert operators regarding equipment conditions or to prepare for maintenance actions. Importantly, equipment performance monitoring will help avoid unnecessary maintenance actions, saving maintenance resources and reducing the risk of maintenance-induced damage.
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For example, the storage and distribution of data will come more easily as the Navy and Marine Corps move to modern, distributed information systems, networks, and telecommunications. Some investment and a determined effort will be required to infuse the following technologies into systems: · Sensors, to monitor equipment performance parameters; · Item identification marking, to permit accurate and, when possible, automatic configuration control; ties; · Automatic data capture, to gain timely, accurate data on logistic activi .
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This means not an acquisition process, a training process, a maintenance process, and a supply process but instead a single process that integrates all these functions to serve a common purpose. Databases, information systems, and communications systems must all work together to support weapon readiness activities.
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The plan should cut across the Navy Department and embrace the Navy, Marine Corps, hardware systems commands, Supply Systems Command, Naval Training Command, and the fleets. The plan should recognize that the other Services, various defense organizations, several government agencies, and many commercial firms play essential roles in supporting naval systems.
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