Sustainment Definition: Facilities sustainment provides resources for maintenance and repair activities necessary to keep a typical inventory of facilities in good working order over a 50-year service life.
It includes regularly scheduled adjustments and inspections, preventive maintenance tasks, and emergency response and service calls for minor repairs. It also includes major repairs or replacement of facility components (usually accomplished by contract) that are expected to occur periodically throughout the facility life cycle. This work includes regular roof replacement, refinishing wall surfaces, repairing and replacing electrical, heating, and cooling systems, replacing tile and carpets, and similar type of work. It does not include repairing or replacing non-attached equipment or furniture, or building components that typically last more than 50 years (such as foundations and structural members).
Sustainment does not include restoration, modernization, environmental compliance, specialized historical preservation or costs related to acts of God, which are funded elsewhere. Other tasks associated with facilities operations (such as custodial services, grass cutting, landscaping, waste disposal, and the provision of central utilities) are also not included.
The Facilities Sustainment Model (FSM) projects annual facility sustainment costs for the DoD facilities inventory. The FSM application is available at: Facility Program Requirements Suite.
Examples of Sustainment Project
The Purpose: Demolition and disposal of excess and/or obsolete facilities serves several purposes:
