Sustainment Principles and Technologies for Aircraft Depot Maintenance

This project will identify and characterize the principles governing operations in the sustainment domain for end items undergoing maintenance and repair with minimal disassembly, define requirements for sustainment-oriented planning and scheduling systems, and produce a candiddate implementation architecture for an integrated, situation-based planning, scheduling, and dispatch support system. These products will represent a major advance in the sustainment sciense and technology base. The primary benefit from these products is that they will provide a backbone for sustainment initiatives well into the next century. The application of these technologies will bring predictability, repeatability, flexibility, and evolutionary characteristic, and improved quality to the development of sustainment systems.