FACILITIZE THIS
releases and modifications because of obso- lescence. Additionally, while the Army can expect the contractor to maintain configuration control during production, the PM or PdM office remains responsible for ensuring the long-term supportability of the system. Securing and controlling data is a cornerstone of that supportability task and a consideration throughout the program’s life cycle.
LESSONS LEARNED, MONEY SAVED Currently, the LRAS3 program has facilitized the depot for about 75 per- cent of the repairable parts. During the facilitization effort, the government has saved approximately $4 million, esti- mated by comparing the repair costs at the government depot with previous contractor repair costs for the same part. Tis represents a return on investment of more than 60 percent; the cost of parts repair is lower, and the recovery rate higher, than if the OEM had repaired them. PdM GS provided the necessary equipment and documentation for resets and overhauls, making the organic depot the single point of repair for all LRAS3 systems.
Delays in this complex project have been mostly programmatic, not techni- cal. In particular, ordering equipment and replacement parts, and contracting with the OEM for support tasks, have presented challenges that have driven the schedule. For the LRAS3 program, only four of the 24 depot-level repair- able items remain to be facilitized. Te bulk of the work will be complete by the end of FY14, with a few tasks carrying over into the new year.
Software facilitization is moving forward with the expectation that the SEC will be up and running in time for post-production software support sustainment funding in
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SCOUTING THE ENEMY
SPC Justin Barnett uses an LRAS3 Feb. 4 during a platoon-level live-fire exercise in Grafenwoehr, Germany. (U.S. Army photo by Visual Information Specialist Markus Rauchenberger, Training Support Activity Europe)
FY15. Tis will complete the LRAS3 tran- sition to sustainment and allow for 100 percent organic repair and support to the product as long as it is in the field.
Te 2GF is in the initial stages of faciliti- zation, scheduled for completion in FY15 and leveraging all the lessons learned on LRAS3.
CONCLUSION PdM GS has demonstrated that an organic depot can produce a high-quality product at a much lower cost to the government than a contractor-owned facility. We realize that the warfighter is a very important stakeholder, but not the only stakeholder in a project or product manager’s decisions on how best to sustain programs.
Army AL&T Magazine April–June 2014
Te U.S. citizen and taxpayer deserve an able military at a manageable cost. A properly facilitized depot addresses both of these needs.
For more information, contact the author at 703-704-3006 or
scott.h.winter2.
ctr@mail.mil.
MR. engineer
SCOTT WINTER is at CACI
a systems International Inc.,
supporting PdM GS. He holds an MBA from Maryland State University, an M.S. in electrical and computer engineering from Rutgers, the state university of New Jersey, and a B.S. in computer science and engineering from the Pennsylvania State University,
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