Overcoming Sustainment Challenges to Achieve Optimal Readiness for the Warfighter

Sustaining military aircrafts at today’s operational tempo is fraught with challenges. The amount of wear and tear has created unprecedented workloads. Moreover, Program Managers are often faced with complex and contradictory Business Case Analyses that do not compare apples to apples.

IDGA’s 2nd Annual Aviation Life Cycle Management will take on these challenges to ensure that attendees have a clear understanding of successful business models that help solve the modernization and sustainment issues facing today’s air vehicles.

Points of focus will include:

• Determining true Total Cost of Ownership through Product Support – common pitfalls of Product Support Strategy(PSS) BCAs
• Making best use of limited resources: money, time, and personnel
• Sustaining COTS products and the challenges of DMSMS and obsolescent parts
• Understanding the change from PBL to Outcome-Based Product Support Business Model
• How industry can help lower cost to the customer in ways the government cannot
• Nuts and bolts of balancing organic and industrial capabilities
• Best practices of successful Public Private Partnerships
• Plus much more!

 IDGA’s 2nd Aviation Life Cycle Management is a forum for aviation life cycle management and sustainment stakeholders who are serious about finding solutions to the money, time, personnel, parts, and partnership challenges of attaining the highest warfighter readiness. Delegates will include the following job titles from military programs, life cycle management commands (LCMCs), depots, industry, and academia: