As part of the Department’s continuing effort to improve program life cycle management, the April 2010 memo was intended to "strengthen sustainment governance by conducting detailed reviews of key elements of sustainment planning for all ACAT ID weapons system programs at decision and other review points in the acquisition process. Increasing visibility of sustainment factors is vital to ensuring we deliver a program that meets Warfighter materiel readiness objectives with long-term affordability consideration. To facilitate a comprehensive review and provide the required information in a standardized format, program managers are to use the sustainment quad chart (contained in the memo) to report the status of sustainment planning at OIPT and Defense Acquisition Board reviews. Reporting begins at program initiation and continues through each subsequent milestone, the production decision, and at other reviews when directed." The "Sustainment Quad Chart" format was tweaked by OSD in October 2013, and the updated template along with an updated October 2013 "Sustainment Quad Chart Instruction" from OSD to assist in using this template are attached below. Changes from the original 2010 version include:
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Top Right Quadrant: "Materiel Reliability" was changed to "Reliability"
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Top Right Quadrant: "Ownership Cost: was changed to "Operating & Support Cost"
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Top Right Quadrant: New "Demonstrated Performance" column was added
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Bottom Right Quadrant: O&S Data "Cost based on average annual cost per squadron" changed to "Cost based on average annual per system in BY$K"
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Bottom Right Quadrant:: O&S Data in "Total O&S Costs" section listed in $M
