When we speak of end of life military parts data acquisition services,
we need to think about how acquisition logisticians are critical to military
operations and weapons designs that, over time, will maintain logistics
support. For information on how the Navy overcame the problem of
end of life components becoming obsolete quickly and the lack of
logistics support critical to military operations.
Through the execution of three demonstrations and the application
of Lean Six Sigma principles, the IMT team showed significant
process improvements. Automated inventory processing allowed the
removal of fork trucks, safety observers, and laborers to open
containers for inspection. Data movement was streamlined and replaced
manual database updates. Other operational benefits were documented,
such as minimized USG time in foreign country magazines and improved
visibility from o rigin to destination. In addition, we expect financial
benefits
During the past decade, many acquisition reform initiatives at the
Defense Department were motivated by the desire to tap the explosive
growth in electronics capabilities of the commercial and consumer
industry. In the 1980s, the Defense Department attempted to develop
a new generation of unique, dedicated computers, only to find, after
many years and more than a billion dollars devoted to the project, that
the computers were obsolete and incompatible with the latest industry
standards. This experience helped fuel the move to the use of
commercial off-the-shelf technology in new systems and upgrades
of aging systems.
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