Archive 2007
Overcoming Barriers to Public Service
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The current process of filling senior politically appointed leadership positions in government is not serving our best interests and is repelling the nation's best candidates from public service. Members of the AIA Legal Committee have put together this report – Overcoming Barriers to Public Service – which identifies specific problems keeping highly qualified people from working in important government posts and proposes specific fixes. Publication date: October 2007 |
Industry Input to the OSTP on U.S. Earth Observation Policy
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It is in the national and economic security interest of the United States to maintain an independent global Earth observation capacity (to provide measurements and monitoring determined to be critical to U.S. interests in global information and attendant infrastructure). Given the documented experience and well established utility of Earth observations from sensors deployed on, over, and under the Earth’s surface, the purpose of this policy is to optimize the U.S. benefits, and provision of, observations to support established and evolving research and operational science applications for society by minimizing systems effects on the data being collected. Additionally this policy is important so U.S. leadership can establish a global information infrastructure and be recognized as a major contributor to this infrastructure into the future. Publication date: September 2007 |
Materiel Readiness Modeling and Simulation Capability
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An AIA Product Support Committee working group published this report for the Defense Department examining the feasibility of establishing department-wide predictive modeling and analysis capability for weapon system life cycle outcome assessments. These modeling and simulation tools would predict resource-to-outcome sensitivities for such materiel readiness drivers as materiel reliability, materiel down time and total lifecycle costs. The working group determined that such a capability is not only viable but already being applied to some program development and sustainment phases. With this report, the working group details its recommended two-phase implementation plan to address this issue. Publication date: August 2007 |
Life Cycle Sustainment: Accomplishing Performance Driven Outcomes through Condition Based Maintenance and Continuous Process Improvement
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DoD logistics operations underpin the sustainment of military material readiness. These operations involve the efforts of over 1 million military service members and DoD civilians and are estimated to cost more than $114 billion in FY 2006. DoD material readiness sustainment value streams range from the procurement of consumable parts for minor repairs to the overhaul of entire weapon systems. These value streams involve many diverse organizations, from large industrial activities to forward-deployed units. Properly incentivized through performance based contracting vehicles, Industry can provide life cycle sustainment improvements that yield year-on-year DoD operational cost reductions while providing industry with time based ROI opportunities, through application of proven CPI capabilities at acceptable levels of risk. This paper explores this possibility. Publication Date: May 2007 |
