DLA Aging Aircraft Program

The objective of the DLA Aging Systems Program is an extension of the Aging Aircraft program and is to reduce customer wait time for hardware items and thereby help DLA's customers improve readiness by reducing the incidence of awaiting parts (AWP) and not mission capable supply (NMCS) conditions. DLA manages 4.5 million National Stock Numbers (NSNs), and only 25 percent are ordered frequently enough that demands for them can be forecasted. Financial constraints preclude maintaining sufficient just in case stock to satisfy every demand, and the resulting stock-out conditions impact our customers' readiness and depot-level maintenance costs and cycle times. The Aging Systems Program is structured to meet its objective through four Thrusts that will improve the ability of DLA and the Services to sustain and maintain aging equipment and systems.