MIL-HDBK-502 - Barringer and Associates, Inc.

MIL-HDBK-502: ACQUISITIONALOGISTICSreviews, modeling, simulation, demonstration, and testing. Assessment andverification procedures, like all supportability analysis activities, need to betailored to the type of acquisition, the program phase, and the risk elementsbeing addressed.Supportability demonstration and test requirements and criteria aredeveloped for the particular performance characteristics to be tested. Theserequirements are included in the Test and Evaluation Master Plan for theprogram. All supportability performance requirements, including thosewhich apply to the support system, should be tested and verified.Results of supportability assessment and verification activities are used toupdate other supportability analyses information and estimates. Issuesresulting from analysis of supportability assessment results are used todevelop improvement recommendations.5.3 Systems Engineering Strategy—Supportability AnalysesInputsA strategy for performing systems engineering activities should bedeveloped early in the program by the performing organization. As such,selected supportability analyses should be identified as input to the systemsengineering strategy. The supportability analyses input should be anintegral part of the program’s systems engineering strategy. The strategyinput should identify, and give the rationale for, the inclusion or exclusionof specific analyses. Each activity that is included should be assigned to anorganization responsible for its conduct.Supportability analyses in each program phase should be scoped to theobjectives and level of design anticipated. The strategy should address allsupportability analyses needed to analyze, define, and verify thesupportability thresholds and objectives for a system and to assess the risksin accomplishing the thresholds and objectives. Select the supportabilityobjectives and analyses to include in the strategy based on the followingconsiderations:• The probable hardware and software designs, support concepts, andoperational approaches for the new total system which include grossestimates of the reliability and maintainability, O&S costs, logisticsupport resources, and readiness characteristics of each total systemcomponent design and the operational concept.• The availability, accuracy, and relevance of readiness, O&S cost, andlogistic support resource data required to perform the proposedsupport analyses.5-12