System Sustainment

Acquisition and Engineering Processes for the Sustainment of Critical and Legacy Systems

Authors: Peter Sandborn and William Lucyshyn

Brief Description

This book covers several areas that include bioinspired techniques and optimization approaches for system dependability. It addresses the issue of integration and interaction of the bioinspired techniques in system dependability computing so that intelligent decisions, design, and architectures can be supported. It brings together these emerging areas under the umbrella of bio- and nature-inspired computational intelligence.

This book is a mix of engineering, operations research, and policy sciences intended to provide students with a thorough understanding of the concept of sustainability and sustainable product life-cycles, and an appreciation of the importance of sustaining critical systems. It starts from the key attributes for system sustainment that includes data analytics, engineering analysis and the public policy needed to support the development of technologies, processes, and frameworks required for the management of sustainable processes and practices. The specific topics covered include: acquisition of critical systems, reliability, maintenance, availability, readiness, inventory management, supply-chain management and risks, contracting for sustainment, and various analysis methodologies (discounted cash flow analysis, discrete-event simulation and Monte Carlo methods). Practice problems are included at the end of each chapter.

Table of Contents:

  1. Introduction to Sustainment
  2. Acquisition of Critical Systems
  3. System Failure
  4. Maintenance-Managing System Failure
  5. Availability and Readiness
  6. Sustainment Inventory Management
  7. Supply-Chain Management
  8. System Sustainment Enablers and Considerations
  9. Contracting for Sustainment
  10. The Future of System Sustainment
Appendices
  1. Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) Analysis
  2. Monte Carlo Analysis
  3. Discrete-Event Simulation (DES)
  4. Summary of Notation and Acronyms

Readership: This book is intended to be a resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in engineering (aerospace, civil, electrical, mechanical, and engineering management), business, and public policy who want to understand the ramifications of, and processes for, system sustainment. It is also a useful 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.

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