ADJUSTING TO TARGET


A gun chief and his assistant gunner assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division Artillery check the sights on their M119A3 howitzer during a gun raid as part of a Jan. 20, 2016, division artillery readiness test on Fort Bragg, North Carolina. PM TAS and ARDEC streamlined the M119A3 recoil system by reducing the total part count, resulting in a more reliable, easier and less costly system to maintain. (Photo by CPT Joe Bush, 82nd Airborne Division Artillery)


in redesign of components while other times just a change in maintenance strategy will reduce support costs. Te Defense Logistics Agency and TACOM, which is the primary inventory- control activity, provide the spares. A key tenet of the PBLCS approach is end-to-end supply chain management of spares (vs. stockpiling) to achieve defined delivery metrics developed to achieve high operational availability. Under the terms of this contract, BAE Systems owns the spares until delivery, so the government does not have to fund the “iron mountain” of spares that risk excessive stockpiling or obsolescence.


In 2008, PM TAS conducted a business-case analysis to sup- port the services' approval of the PBLCS strategy. Te analysis estimated an initial $109 million cost avoidance from the estab- lishment of an organic pipeline. Te warfighter achieved an additional $7 million per year in cost avoidance, as competing the contract resulted in lower spare parts cost for a total cost avoidance of $179 million over the potential 10-year period of performance for this contract. Te contractor is evaluated annu- ally on multiple areas of performance, including spare parts


delivery, and awarded subsequent one-year award terms (up to a 10-year maximum duration) if they meet performance metrics. Tis contract is currently in its third year of performance, and operational availability has consistently exceeded 90 percent.


A TEAM APPROACH Soldiers and Marines perform all field- and sustainment-level maintenance to organically maintain and support both howitzer systems. ANAD and Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow (California) perform depot-level maintenance for the Army and Marine Corps respectively. Te depots rely on the organic supply chain for M119A3 parts and the hybrid (organic and con- tractor) supply chain for M777A2 parts.


Originally, the M777A2 PBLCS contract did not include met- rics for unique parts being delivered to the depots. Seeing the benefits to depot workflow planning, TACOM and Marine Corps Systems Command have worked with PM TAS to include these metrics as part of the performance measures under the PBLCS contract.


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ACQUISITION


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