Downloaded from https://www.everyspec.com MIL-HDBK-502: A MIL-HDBK-502: A CQUISITION CQUISITION L OGISTICS OGISTICS If a development program is the result of the market investigation, the design process should be initiated as described in Section 4. The requirements should be decomposed and analyzed to determine their supportability characteristics (Requirements Analysis segment of the systems engineering process). This information should be used to initiate the support system design. The process will continue as the hardware, software, and support system designs evolve from the requirements through the functional design (FA/A) to the final or physical system design (Synthesis).
The analyses should be performed at the system level and applied to the successively more detailed design components. The specific supportability analyses to be performed on an element of a system’s design are those which most correspond to the level of that element’s design. For example, when the design data is of a functional nature, identify the functional support requirements and place special emphasis on the identification of new or unique support function requirements. When the available design data represents a physical design, identify and quantify operations and sustainment support resource requirements.
The supportability analyses that were discussed earlier under a commercial acquisition (one that lacked necessary technical publications information) are also applicable here. For those system elements for which support data is required: Identify hardware candidates and support functions. Conduct repair analysis. Perform functional analysis and task analysis on repairable items for selected support system design. Another area of supportability analyses that applies to both commercial and developmental acquisitions is assessments of system supportability. These are considered part of the Systems Analysis and Control portion of the systems engineering process.
This portion of the supportability analyses process is conducted throughout a system’s life cycle and is used to: demonstrate the validity of the analysis. support current planning decisions. maintain the accuracy of the information products developed using the analysis results. support the assessment of alternative concepts and proposed changes. Assessment and verification of supportability starts with early planning for verification of support concepts and continues on an iterative basis. Assessment and verification methods and techniques encompass technical 5-11