Logistics & Product Support

Continually assessing product support provides the valuable insight necessary to adapt for the next stage of a product’s life cycle. Understanding how to adjust these strategies is what our experts do. From independent assessments to life cycle reviews, we use a variety of tools to counter life cycle challenges. From the very beginning to the last days before retirement, product support strategies need to be adapted to the life cycle. We customize strategies for any phase using our extensive experience and a variety of proven analysis tools. Knowing how to implement and structure product support for the future becomes the delivered solution. We’ve prepared various Department of Defense (DOD) programs, including C-17, C-5, F-15, F-35 and AWACS, for life cycle challenges not yet encountered.

Dayton Aerospace has the resources and innovative approaches to deliver world class PS BCAs. Our exceptionally experienced and highly unique core team of PS BCA experts have successfully delivered many streamlined, fully-compliant and actionable PS BCAs—on-time and on-budget. We employ a core team of experienced logistics and study/analysis professionals—supported by a bench of sustainment, engineering, and contracting experts and guided by executive-level subject matter experts (SMEs) with extensive knowledge of depot and fleet management. Our phased, structured, and disciplined approach complies with the DOD and USAF PS BCA process and has been proven to provide executable alternatives quickly. Team members average over 30 years of experience, enabling us to “get it right the first time” using fewer people and accomplishing studies faster than less experienced teams.

Department of Defense Directive (DODD) 5000.01 requires program managers to “… develop and implement performance-based logistics strategies that optimize total system availability while minimizing cost …” DoDD 5000.02 states, “PBL offers the best strategic approach for delivering required life cycle readiness, reliability, and ownership costs.” Dayton Aerospace has the experts to assist government and industry develop public-private partnerships and contracting approaches that meet legal requirements, as well as incentivize the contractor to deliver excellent performance over the long term. We have conducted long-term sustainment studies for government and industry, including some of the largest product support business case analyses (PS BCAs) ever conducted. We help programs each step of the way in all areas, including developing the initial strategy, analyzing alternatives, determining contract actions, defining financial arrangements and developing workload sharing via public-private partnerships.

OSD and Service policy for logistics and sustainment planning is complex. A wide variety of legislated and policy guidance drive how to develop and maintain a program’s product support strategy and the plans necessary to implement that strategy. Dayton Aerospace has the experts to orchestrate and guide the development of any logistics or sustainment plan for any stage of a program’s life cycle. Effective system sustainment is built upon a complex hierarchy of plans from various levels within the program. These plans are typically created by a prime contractor, but the requirements come from the government program office and help ensure integration across the enterprise. Our experts know how these plans fit together and support policy.