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- Positioning USAR logistics for significant maintenance
costs savings/avoidance, reductions in maintenance backlogs, and
enhanced overall USAR materiel readiness
The project
vision is to document current USAR logistics operating procedures
and develop new equipment maintenance and storage concepts to improve
readiness and reduce operating cost.
DACOM is supporting redesign of current logistics operations, to include
CHP, which will enable significant maintenance costs savings/avoidance,
reduce maintenance backlogs, and enhance overall USAR materiel readiness.
The objectives of the redesigned logistics operations in the USAR
are to:
- Improve unit readiness through better equipment maintenance
and accountability
- Reduce maintenance cost
- Reduce maintenance backlog
- Extend equipment life and improve dependability
- Utilize USAR assets to effect cost savings in future applications
(e.g., Engineer, construction, supply, and maintenance units)
DACOM is facilitating this monumental effort by developing a Pilot
Decision Support Model within our WorkNet™
Architecture that will perform quantitative Logistics Chain Management
Functions.
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Martin
Marietta
- Identification of significant reductions in product lead-time
and cost
- Dramatic improvement in technical interactions with trading partners
- Positioning Martin Marietta as a leader in computer-aided logistics support
To help
Martin Marietta Electronics & Missiles and Astronautics Groups
achieve a concurrent engineering environment, DACOM trained several
cross-functional teams in concurrent engineering concepts and facilitated
the teams in defining improvements in product life cycle processes.
The teams both requirements analysis and prototype development utilizing
DACOM's PROBE methods and techniques. DACOM introduced Business Rule
modeling techniques to address product life cycle integration issues.
The Business Rules models were used to evaluate, customize, and integrate
product data management software. Significant reductions in product
lead-time and cost were identified as a result of reengineering the
product life cycle processes. The enhanced processes and supporting
information systems allowed Martin Marietta to be a leader in computer
aided logistics support and dramatically improved technical interactions
with trading partners.
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OSD
CALS Policy Office
- DACOM helped a major aerospace company identify potential
savings of over $894M for a single weapon system program
As an advisor
to the Office of the Secretary of Defense CALS Policy Office, DACOM
helped coordinate policies and standards for the integration of defense
contractors and the Department of Defense acquisition and logistics
infrastructure.
DACOM helped establish the government and industry initiative for
Continuous Acquisition and Life-Cycle Support (CALS). Working with
DoD policy makers and industry leaders, DACOM facilitated the initial
CALS Framework and Architecture, CALS implementation plans, and CALS
program manager's handbook. Working with the National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST), DACOM facilitated the introduction
of industry data standards for engineering and logistical technical
data. Process improvements based on the CALS initiative enhance the
integration of customers, contractors, and supplier networks by exploiting
concurrent engineering, product data sharing, EDI, and other enabling
technologies.
Formal policies along with management guidelines and supporting technical
standards resulted from the CALS initiative. These guidelines have
been applied to numerous weapon system programs resulting in substantial
savings. DACOM helped a major aerospace company identify potential
savings of over $894M for a single weapon system program from a CALS-based
Contractor Integrated Technical Information System (CITIS). The CALS
effort has been the catalyst in the dramatic redefinition of the DoD
acquisition process based on the concepts of "electronic commerce".
It provided the foundation to replace paper-intensive business and
engineering transactions with electronic access.
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