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PTD is LMI needed to accomplish provisioning of new systems. Provisioning is the process of determining and acquiring the range and quantity of support items (e.g., spares, repair parts, bulk materiel, tools and test equipment) necessary to operate and maintain a system for an initial period of time. Provisioning data is accumulated and documented during the system engineering process and continues to be updated in each lifecyle phase as the LMI is updated.
Required For: Provisioning documentation is required for all systems and equipment acquired or modified under the Army acquisition program unless all supply support will be provided by the contractor for the life of the system.
When Required: Planning for supply support and initial provisioning is required to begin concurrently with the development of performance requirements for the system or as early as possible in the SDD phase. The Army requires that initial stockage quantities of support items be provided prior to or concurrent with the initial distribution of the system.
Responsibility: The MATDEV/LCMC engineering function, configuration management office or system contractor is the proponent for all configuration management and provisioning data updates. Reference: AR 700-18 and AR 700-127, DoDD 4140.1-R, MIL-PRF-49506, MIL-HDBK-502, and GEIA-STD 0007.
GEIA-STD-0007 Interface: H Entities, Provisioning and Cataloging Requirements. The "H" data Entities are used to document packaging/provisioning data requirements. Included in these Entities are static parts data (non-application dependent) related to provisioning screening and cataloging, packaging, and common maintenance data. Also included under these data Entities are application data of items used to document the data required for initial support requirements determination, repair parts manuals, and design change information. Provisioning data can be delivered via the Provisioning_Transaction_Set.xsd. However, for Department of Defense (DOD) provisioning technical documentation, there is a specific format for delivery of provisioning data. Two XML style sheets have been created to produce formatted DOD provisioning technical documentation from the XML. The style sheet lsa_036_1.xslt is a pre-processor that pads numeric fields with zeros and converts elements with decimals to pure numeric fields and must be applied prior to the application of the second style sheet. The output of the first style sheet is a slightly modified XML instance. The second style sheet, lsa_036_2.xslt, is applied to the results of the first style sheet and formats the data into the required eighty column provisioning technical documentation format. The results of the style sheets produces the data required for review at various provisioning conferences (e.g., long-lead time items conference, provisioning conference, etc.) and is used in the selection procedures to identify repair parts requirements in support of the equipment to be fielded.TION/NARRATIVE
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