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Integrated logistics support (ILS) management consists of the technical and management activities conducted to ensure supportability and sustainment implications are considered early in the development process, and executed throughout the acquisition process to minimize total ownership cost (TOC) and to ensure that the user is provided the resources to sustain the system in the field. The ILS management program is comprised of the ILS Manager (ILSM), the combat developer’s ILS point of contact (POC), and the Supportability Integrated Product Team (SIPT).
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The earlier that supportability and sustainment is addressed, the greater the potential for significant reductions in total ownership cost. Therefore, the materiel developer (MATDEV) and the combat developer (CBTDEV) must ensure that acquisition logistics management activities are initiated in Pre-Systems Acquisition activities. At program initiation, the CBTDEVs ILS POC assists the PM, also referred to as the total life cycle system manager (TLCSM), in transitioning the Integrated Logistics Support program to the PM/TLCSM. The PM designates an ILS Manager to oversee the ILS management program. The PM establishes a WIPT in accordance with AR 700–127, titled the supportability integrated product team (SIPT). The SIPT is a multi-functional team that prepares the life cycle sustainment plan (LCSP, previously known as the supportability strategy or SS) to plan, program, and execute the ILS management program and ensure demonstration of logistics requirements. The PMs ILS Manager chairs the SIPT. When a performance based logistics Product Support Strategy is being implemented, the product support integrator (PSI) will co-chair the SIPT. The CBTDEVs appointed ILS POC participates in the SIPT as the “users” representative.
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Army Regulation 700-127, Integrated Logistics Support
Best Practices, Lessons Learned, Stories, Guides, Handbooks, Templates, Example Tools, Communities of Practice, LEC Tools
Department of the Army Pamphlet 70-3, Army Acquisition Procedures
The Cost Analysis Strategy Assessment (CASA) Life-Cycle Cost Estimating Software uses an engineering cost model to estimate total cost of ownership based on RDT&E, Acquisition/Procurement, O&S, and Disposal activities. CASA identifies the total ownership cost of a system, which is one of the key management activities of the ILS program. CASA is distributed freely to all US personnel. Request from foreign nations for CASA and associated training and technical support are handled through a Foreign Military Sales Case (FMS). CASA can be obtained here: https://www.logsa.army.mil/lec/casa/.
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