This "Designing and Assessing Supportability in DoD Weapon Systems: A Guide to Increased Reliability and Reduced Logistics Footprint" provides comprehensive guidance to program managers, product support managers, and PMOs (including life cyclelogisticians) on planning for and designing DoD weapon systems for increased reliability. It outlines the key tasks, activities, and focus areas during each Acquisition Phase, and further delineates the Systems Engineering methodologies which should be applied to ensure the goals of achieving reliable systems with a reduced logistics footprint are achieved.
Note that although this document has been superseded by materials contained in Chapters 4 and 5 of the Defense Acqusition Guidebook (DAG) and the DoD Product Support Manager (PSM) Guidebook, the subjects of designing for supportability, increasing reliability, and reducing logistics footprint remain as important as ever. This Guide is being retained as an important historical archieved reference.
