Downloaded from https://www.everyspec.com MIL-HDBK-502: A MIL-HDBK-502: A CQUISITION CQUISITION L OGISTICS OGISTICS The potential design impact of performing the analyses including the estimated supportability, cost and readiness improvement and the reduction in program risks. The strategy should also include an initial estimate of the cost to perform each supportability analysis. It should also rate the degree of cost effectiveness of performing each analysis—given the projected costs, the anticipated benefit to be derived, and the program schedule constraints under which it must be conducted.
These ratings should then be used to tailor supportability analyses to conform to overall acquisition program strategy, plans, schedules, and funding. Procedures and schedules should be established and integrated with the overall systems engineering program and other program activities. Supportability reviews should be scheduled consistent with the overall program plans. Consider use of alternative techniques that minimize the cost of reviews such as the use of remote access. Supportability analyses should have a set of established review procedures which provide consistency of review among the participating disciplines.
These procedures should define the acceptance and rejection criteria pertaining to total system supportability requirements. To be useful, the systems engineering strategy needs to be current. The supportability analyses input should be updated as necessary based upon the analyses’ results and subsequent refinement of plans, schedules, and funding profiles. When the results of a specific supportability analysis are no longer required or provide little or no value to the program, the analysis should be discontinued.
5.4 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Department of Defense Regulation, 5000.2-R, Mandatory Procedures for Major Defense Acquisition Programs (MDAPS) and Major Automated Information System (MAIS) Acquisition Programs SD-2, Buying Commercial and Nondevelopmental Items: A Handbook 5-13