The Air Force’s ability to maximize warfighting effectiveness hinges on establishing and maintaining a logistics support foundation throughout the system life cycle. Designed to complement the Air Force’s Product Support Toolkit (PSTK) and Logistics Assessment (LA) tools, the Logistics Health Assessment (LHA) provides the acquisition and sustainment communities a standard, tailorable, user friendly tool to report on and ensure long-term sustainment and availability considerations that can be identified and integrated into early program decisions. Ultimately, the LHA enhances the potential for systems to be fielded with a support structure in place and optimizes the warfighter’s ability to meet mission performance requirements. The LHA is built around the 12 Integrated Product Support (IPS) elements outlined in Air Force Instruction (AFI) 63-101/20-101, Integrated Life Cycle Management.
The LHA is a tool which provides the Air Force a capability to assess the logistics health of Defense Programs from concept to disposal. The LHA is intended to provide a day-to-day standardized, tailorable and user-friendly mechanism for assessing and measuring acquisition and sustainment logistics planning & execution. The LHA is also a module in the Acquisition Workbench.
The LHA provides the lifecycle community with a standard, tailorable, user friendly tool to report on and ensure long-term sustainment and availability considerations that can be identified and integrated into early program decisions. Ultimately, this assessment enhances the potential for systems to be fielded with a support structure in place and optimizes the warfighter’s ability to meet mission performance requirements. The LHA is incorporated into the Air Force’s System Metric and Reporting Tool (SMART).
See also the U.S. Air Force Contract Sustainment Support Guide (CSSG) (Second Edition, August 2013) for additional resources, references, and best practices.
