Downloaded from https://www.everyspec.com MIL-HDBK-502: A MIL-HDBK-502: A CQUISITION CQUISITION L OGISTICS OGISTICS acquisitions of systems and services will utilize commercially available solutions. Use of commercial systems, software, and logistic support services help to cope with the high ownership costs of defense systems. Performance requirements, both operational and support, are used in the market investigation to identify potential commercial or nondevelopmental item candidates which may meet the performance requirements. During the market investigation the candidate commercial and nondevelopmental systems’ designs are reviewed from a supportability standpoint to:
Assess standardization issues. Compare with experience base. Identify support alternatives. Evaluate support alternatives. Assess impact of deployment. Assess post production support. These assessments of candidate designs are based upon the available design, support, and experience data associated with the system, demonstrations and tests, and the experience of the agency that acquired the data. If one of the commercial or nondevelopmental candidate designs for the total system is selected, then the supportability analyses should be used to evaluate whether that information is sufficient for implementing the support system design.
If it is deemed sufficient, then supportability analyses should be used to prepare the necessary logistics data products (Synthesis segment of systems engineering process) and monitor changes that may affect the products, the support system performance, or otherwise impact the total system supportability (Systems Analysis and Control (SA&C) portion of the systems engineering process). When available information is not sufficient to support implementation of the support system design (identified during the Requirements Analysis portion of the systems engineering process), the required information can be developed by using a process similar to the one in the following example:
A commercial item with an organic support concept lacks sufficient data for technical publications development . In general, the missing information of concern will probably be that portion of the support data that addresses organic support responsibilities. For instance, when a commercial support concept is being used, the acquiring agency should be primarily concerned with information needed to interface the existing support infrastructure with 5-8