Defense Sustainment Center
Midwest Partners
Technology Thrust Areas
It is the view of the DSC that the best way to achieve the ambitious goals of defense sustainment is through the broad scale deployment of carefully selected and tested new technologies and business practices in four Thrust Areas, which in turn will require new relationships between DoD, its suppliers, and other suppliers. Thrust areas are:
- Logistic support chain integration/partnerships
- Innovative business relationships for re-supply
- Support chain design for rapid re-configurability
- Managing complex logistics networks
- Timely and Accurate Information
- Includes business information, technical data, supply management information, field maintenance and readiness data
- Integrated view of weapon system support data
- On-line information for procurement of parts and services
- Decision support for weapons system readiness
- Streamlining maintenance processes
- Tele-maintenance
- Integrated diagnostics
- Condition based maintenance
- Effective upgrade strategies
- Understanding and correcting failure modes and diagnostics errors
- Open systems and design for upgrade
- Modernization through spares
- Streamline Engineering Change Orders
- Improve qualification processes
Technology Areas
The DSC technology areas of focus include the following general categories:
- Maintenance Training
- Analytical Methods / Cost of Aging
- Corrosion
- Transition of Commercial Products
- Diagnostics / Health Monitoring Systems
- Wiring Failure
- Arc Fault Circuit
- Structural Modeling and Analysis
- Maintenance Manual Currency
- Obsolescence Management
- Avionics Modernization
- Component Improvement