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The Director, Surface Deployment and Distribution Command-Transportation Engineering Agency (SDDC–TEA) will—
a. Provide transportability engineering assistance, deployability analysis assistance, design guidance, and required approvals to PMs, CBTDEVs, and other participants during system acquisition.
b. Provide transportability and deployability assessments for CBTDEV and PM throughout the acquisition process. Provide assessments and transportability approvals to the ILS manager for incorporation into the single supportability assessment.
c. Ensure liaison with all services and DLA in all transportability matters.
d. Participate in SIPTs as required.
e. Ensure transport procedures for new systems are covered in SDDC–TEA guidance.
f. Participate in HQDA ILSRs as requested.
g. Provide a representative to the AILSEC.
h. Provide final transportability approval, or provide corrective actions needed to obtain approval, prior to milestone
Update Transportability Report: DODI 5000.2 requires that analysis, T&E results, or independent reviews confirm the adequacy of the proposed maintenance plan and programmed support resources to meet objectives for peacetime readiness and wartime employment.
It also requires that the ability to support any system be demonstrated before the system is placed in the hands of the user. The LD is conducted to confirm that support resources and tasks developed to sustain the system will function as intended. The LD data is supplemented by supportability related data obtained during developmental test and evaluation (DT&E) and OT&E to confirm the correct resources and tasks have been developed. AR 700–127 identifies the LD as a means for satisfying DOD requirements for all acquisition programs.
The LD is a validation process managed by the MATDEV. Maximum use should be made of existing qualitative and quantitative data such as when the item is used by another service, industry, or country. In order to minimize cost and schedule risk, existing qualitative and quantitative demonstrations, evaluations, analyses, simulations and tests should be used to meet LD requirements. A goal of the LD is to- Transportability engineering analysis. MSDDC–TEA conducts transportability analysis and determines transportability testing needed to ensure transportability requirements are met in accordance with DODI 4540.7. A transportability demonstration may be required if analysis are insufficient to prove otherwise.
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