Downloaded from https://www.everyspec.com MIL-HDBK-502: A MIL-HDBK-502: A CQUISITION CQUISITION L OGISTICS OGISTICS reviews, modeling, simulation, demonstration, and testing. Assessment and verification procedures, like all supportability analysis activities, need to be tailored to the type of acquisition, the program phase, and the risk elements being addressed. Supportability demonstration and test requirements and criteria are developed for the particular performance characteristics to be tested. These requirements are included in the Test and Evaluation Master Plan for the program.
All supportability performance requirements, including those which apply to the support system, should be tested and verified. Results of supportability assessment and verification activities are used to update other supportability analyses information and estimates. Issues resulting from analysis of supportability assessment results are used to develop improvement recommendations. 5.3 Systems Engineering Strategy—Supportability Analyses Inputs A strategy for performing systems engineering activities should be developed early in the program by the performing organization. As such, selected supportability analyses should be identified as input to the systems engineering strategy.
The supportability analyses input should be an integral part of the program’s systems engineering strategy. The strategy input should identify, and give the rationale for, the inclusion or exclusion of specific analyses. Each activity that is included should be assigned to an organization responsible for its conduct. Supportability analyses in each program phase should be scoped to the objectives and level of design anticipated. The strategy should address all supportability analyses needed to analyze, define, and verify the supportability thresholds and objectives for a system and to assess the risks in accomplishing the thresholds and objectives.
Select the supportability objectives and analyses to include in the strategy based on the following considerations: The probable hardware and software designs, support concepts, and operational approaches for the new total system which include gross estimates of the reliability and maintainability, O&S costs, logistic support resources, and readiness characteristics of each total system component design and the operational concept. The availability, accuracy, and relevance of readiness, O&S cost, and logistic support resource data required to perform the proposed support analyses. 5-12