Primary Functional Area : Life Cycle Logistics
The Life Cycle Sustainment Plan (LCSP) documents the Program Manager and Product Support Manager's plan for formulating, implementing and executing the sustainment strategy, and is part of the overall Acquisition Strategy of a program. The LCSP describes the approach and resources necessary to develop and integrate sustainment requirements into the system's design, development, testing, deployment and sustainment phases. According to para 5.1.2.2. of the Defense Acquisition Guidebook (DAG), entitled Life-Cycle Sustainment Plan (LCSP), DoD Instruction 5000.02 requires that an LCSP be developed and provided as part of the program approval process to document how the sustainment strategy is being implemented.
Life-cycle sustainment planning and execution seamlessly span a system's entire life-cycle evolving over time. The LCSP begins in the Materiel Solution Analysis Phase by describing the notional product support and maintenance concepts used to determine the sustainment requirements optimizing readiness outcomes and minimal life cycle-cost. The LCSP evolves from a strategic outline to a management plan describing the sustainment efforts in the system design and acquisition processes to achieve the required performance and sustainment outcomes necessary to ensure required Warfighter capabilities. It evolves at Milestone B into a detailed execution plan for how the product support package is to be designed, acquired, sustained, and how sustainment will be applied, measured, managed, modified, and reported from system fielding through disposal. By Milestone C, the LCSP describes the implementation status of the product support package (including any sustainment related contracts, e.g. Interim Contractor Support, Contractor Logistics Support) to achieve the Sustainment KPP/KSAs.
It is important to note, however, that a LCSP is not synonymous with Life-Cycle Signature Support Plan (LSSP) discussed in para 2.2.16. of the DAG or with the Replaced System Sustainment Plan (RSSP) discussed in para 5.1.2.3. of the DAG.
According to section E1.1.17 of the DoDI 5000.01, entitled Performance-Based Logistics, PMs shall develop and implement performance-based logistics strategies that optimize total system availability while minimizing cost and logistics footprint. Sustainment strategies shall include the best use of public and private sector capabilities through government/industry partnering initiatives, in accordance with statutory requirements. All such product support strategies are articulated in the LCSP. In developing the strategy the PM should invite the war fighter/user representatives and Military Service and Defense Logistics Agency logistics organizations to participate in integrated product teams.
DoD Instruction 5000.02, Enclosure 6, contains extensive information on the requirements for the LCSP, including direction that "program managers for all programs are responsible for developing and maintaining an LCSP consistent with the product support strategy, beginning at Milestone A. The plan will describe sustainment influences on system design and the technical, business, and management activities to develop, implement, and deliver a product support package that maintains affordable system operational effectiveness over the system life cycle and seeks to reduce cost without sacrificing necessary levels of program support. The Acquisition Strategy will also include an overview of the product support strategy and sustainment-related contracts."
The LCSP is a living document describing the approach and resources necessary to develop and integrate sustainment requirements into the system's design, development, testing and evaluation, fielding and operations. The LCSP should be tailored to meet program needs documenting the current program plan in the following areas:
- The maintenance and support concepts
- How the sustainment metrics will be achieved and sustained throughout the life-cycle
- How sustainment is addressed as an integral part of the program's acquisition strategy and system design process
- The assigned responsibilities and management approach for achieving effective and timely acquisition, product support, and availability throughout the life-cycle including the Program Manager's role in planning for and executing sustainment
- The funding required and budgeted by year and appropriation for the main sustainment cost categories including operating & support costs
- The plan for identifying and selecting sources of repair or support
- The sustainment risk areas and mitigation plans
- Product support implementation status
- Results and recommendations from DoD Component Independent Logistics Assessments (ILA)
After the Full Rate Production Decision Review update, the LCSP describes the plans for sustaining affordable materiel availability as well as accommodating modifications, upgrades, and re-procurement. It should be updated for any Post-IOC Sustainment Reviews and shall be updated, at a minimum, every 5 years or when:
- Subsequent increments are approved and funded to reflect how the support strategy will evolve to support multiple configurations.
- Significant changes are required to the product support package to achieve the objective sustainment metrics including major support provider changes.
The Defense Acquisition Guidebook section 5.1.2.2 includes a listing of the 'notional' contents of a typical LCSP. Additionally, para 5.4 of the DAG, entitled Sustainment in the Life-Cycle Phases, provides a description of key sustainment activities and considerations applicable to each of the weapons systems life cycle (acquisition) phases.
The LCSP should be used as a PM management tool to help align the program's efforts and manage the sustainment related risk focusing on the implementation of the product support package. The LCSP further expands on the product support package implementation strategy, maintenance concept (including the depot maintenance requirements and the implications of core requirements), and the technical data required to accomplish maintenance by providing a description of what is expected from each of the stakeholders.
The goal is to ensure sustainment considerations are integrated into all planning, implementation, management, and oversight activities associated with the acquisition, development, production, fielding, support, and disposal of a system across its life cycle. This includes:
- Participating in the design process to acquire a highly supportable and sustainable system
- Providing affordable, reliable, effective support strategies and systems that meet the user's requirements with optimum materiel availability
- Developing the appropriate metrics to validate and verify the system engineering design process, and measure the performance of the support strategy/supply chain
- Providing the user effective systems with the minimal logistics footprint (e.g., the measurable size or "presence" of logistics support, including manpower, required to deploy, sustain, and move a system).
- Developing more integrated and streamlined acquisition and statutorily compliant logistics support processes
- Facilitating iterative technology enhancements during the system life cycle
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