Peter Sandborn - System Sustainment: Acquisition And Engineering Processes For The Sustainment Of Critical And Legacy Systems

World Scientific Series on Emerging Technologies Volume 4

SYSTEM SUSTAINMENT

ACQUISITION AND ENGINEERING PROCESSES FOR THE SUSTAINMENT OF CRITICAL AND LEGACY SYSTEMS

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World Scientific Series on Emerging Technologies Volume 4

SYSTEM SUSTAINMENT

ACQUISITION AND ENGINEERING PROCESSES FOR THE SUSTAINMENT OF CRITICAL AND LEGACY SYSTEMS

Peter Sandborn
William Lucyshyn

University of Maryland, USA

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Names: Sandborn, Peter A., 1959 author. | Lucyshyn, William, author.

Title: System sustainment : acquisition and engineering processes for the sustainment of critical and legacy systems / Peter Sandborn, William Lucyshyn, University of Maryland, USA.

Description: Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ, USA : World Scientific, [2023] | Series: World Scientific series on emerging technologies. Avram Bar-Cohen memorial series, 2737-5862 ; 4 | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2022013689 | ISBN 9789811256844 (hardcover) | ISBN 9789811256851 (ebook for institutions) | ISBN 9789811256868 (ebook for individuals)

Subjects: LCSH: Systems availability. | System failures (Engineering)--Prevention. | Sustainability.

Classification: LCC TA169 .S26 2023 | DDC 620/.00452--dc23/eng/20220524

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Preface

Students in technology disciplines are provided with educations that often focus only on the development, design, and manufacturing of new, shiny things. Many of these students rarely, if ever, encounter substantive discussions about the process of taking care of old things. While the consumer may fill their home with the newest technology (phone, car, appliances, televisions, etc.), there is no escaping the reality that their lives are surrounded by, and depend to a great extent on, legacy systems that are old and getting older (e.g., infrastructure, transportation, power generation, etc.) in this book, we refer to these as critical systems. The process of maintaining the critical systems that everyone depends on is often overlooked until peoples daily lives are impacted, or these systems failures become catastrophic. When critical systems are designed, their sustainment is often not a primary design consideration. Additionally, these systems are rarely adequately resourced for their long-term sustainment, and even when they are, the sustainment budgets are the first thing raided when funds are needed for other more pressing matters.

While there are many books that focus on system reliability, there are fewer treatments of the consequences of system unreliability. The view taken in this book is that systems are more than just hardware and software, in addition they are supply chains, workforces, contracts, business models, acquisition processes and governance. If any of these elements fail, the system may fail and the outcome that the systems stakeholders require may not be achieved. As a result, this book is a mix of engineering, operations research, and policy sciences intended to provide students with an appreciation of the life-cycle costs, consequences, and risks of procuring and sustaining critical systems.

This book is an outgrowth of a mixture of courses developed in engineering and public policy at the University of Maryland that treat the acquisition, life-cycle cost, reliability, maintainability, and supply-chain risks associated with critical systems. Where critical systems are characterized by high procurement costs, long field lives, severe failure consequence, and a general reluctance or inability by their owners/stakeholders to replace them.

This book is intended to be a resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in engineering, business, and public policy who want to understand the ramifications of, and processes for, system sustainment. We also use this book as a reference for industry short courses provided to practicing professionals, whom in many cases, were not introduced to system sustainment during their education and are now thrust into the field with minimal preparation.

As an introduction, the book begins with a general description of system sustainment and its relation to other types of sustainment, and an overview of the acquisition process for critical systems. This is followed by three chapters that are focused on determining the demand for parts (i.e., how many parts will be needed to support a system and obtain the desired outcome from the system over its life). These chapters are followed by two chapters that focus on the management of the inventory of those parts and the supply-chain risks associated with obtaining (and continuing to obtain) the required parts. , the contract realities associated with sustainment are introduced. In addition to these chapters, three appendices are included that introduce analysis tools needed to quantitatively analyze system sustainment: discounted cash flow analysis, Monte Carlo analysis, and discrete-event simulation.