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DEFINITION
Depot maintenance capability for a new acquisition end item is required to be in place by Initial Operational Capability (IOC).
GENERAL INFORMATION/NARRATIVE
The overall depot capability is certified via the Pilot Depot Overhaul Program which is the culmination of the implementation of the Depot Maintenance Support Plan. Depot capability includes availability of depot maintenance facilities with the right electrical, mechanical, and industrial capabilities necessary for the repair of the end item and its subsystems/components. The needed industrial plant equipment (IPE), hydraulics, pneumatics, clean rooms, storage, etc., must be in place. The depot maintenance work requirement (DMWR) and depot maintenance parts lists must have been validated. Trained depot personnel must be ready to work.
Changes of performance location from an organic depot-level activity to another source of repair must comply with 10 USC 2469. This requires that changes in such workload with a value of $3 million or more to be made using merit-based selection procedures for competitions among all depot-level activities of the Department of Defense (DOD) or competitive procedures for competitions among private and public sector entities. The Program Manager/Program Executive Office (PM/PEO) will, in conjunction with the MSC interservice support office, identify the requirement for the depot maintenance assignment. AMC, as the responsible office for depot maintenance, will take action to initiate the appropriate joint service review. AMC will track the joint service review to completion and will ensure all necessary interservice coordination actions are properly executed. Upon completion of the joint service review and release of the joint service decision, AMC will notify the appropriate PM/PEO and Life Cycle Management Command (LCMC) interservice support office of the implementation actions necessary.
Depot maintenance partnerships are a key component of the logistics transformation. It is a logistics sustainment concept that focuses on establishment of cooperative agreements among the PM, DOD organic depots, and the private sector. The PM, with support from the SIPT and PSI, is responsible for identifying and describing opportunities for depot maintenance partnerships between the government and industry in the acquisition strategy.
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DA Pam 700-56, AR 750-1
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