What is it about?
Number 2 in a series of papers describing a top level management model that helps managers and their teams sustain complex systems. This one provides examples in the Space Industry as they start to field long-lived commercial systems that will be very complex. The next paper will be "first steps in implementation". The model is based on the decades-long sustainment activities we used to keep the nation's ICBM fleet a viable deterrent.
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Why is it important?
The historical trend is towards fielding more and more very complex systems that are expected to last longer and longer. Yet there is no complete management model for the teams that will be charged with keeping them viable.
Perspectives
This is early days. And due to its newness and confinement to a single information-restricted weapon system, this model has very little academic or case history research so far to help prove effectiveness. However, decades of personal experience has taught me that sticking to this model pays off, and wandering away from it creates management by crisis.
Colonel Charles T Vono
Charles Vono
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This page is a summary of: Application of a Weapon System Sustainment Model to the Space Industry, September 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA),
DOI: 10.2514/6.2016-5247.
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