IPSE
The Defense Life Cycle Support Plan integrates this set of 12 elements to ensure comprehensive support across the system's entire lifecycle.
What are the Integrated Product Support (IPS) elements?
This critical document outlines the strategies for managing and executing logistics and sustainment efforts throughout the system's life cycle.
What is the Life Cycle Sustainment Plan (LCSP)?
This essential document in the Defense Acquisition process outlines the system's requirements, serving as the foundation for development and procurement.
What is the Capability Development Document (CDD)?
This primary goal of Reliability Centered Maintenance ensures that systems are maintained in a way that preserves their intended function at optimal cost.
What is maximizing operational reliability?
This is the first step in the risk management process, where potential risks are recognized and documented for further analysis.
What is risk identification?
This IPS element ensures the system's design is compatible with its support requirements, focusing on reliability, maintainability, and supportability characteristics.
What is Design Interface?
This stage of the life cycle focuses on identifying and assessing needs to address capability gaps, laying the foundation for future acquisition planning.
What is the Materiel Solution Analysis phase?
This process is integral to the Defense Acquisition process, identifying and mitigating factors that could negatively impact program cost, schedule, or performance.
What is risk management?
Understanding the "bathtub" curve helps program managers focus on reducing failures during this phase, characterized by early system defects, through rigorous testing and quality control.
What is the infant mortality phase?
In defense acquisition, risks are often classified into these three categories that impact cost, schedule, and performance.
What are technical risks, schedule risks, and cost risks?
This IPS element addresses in-service engineering support, resolving operational issues, and improving system performance post-deployment.
What is Sustaining Engineering?
Defense Life Cycle Support Planning is critical for ensuring this key outcome, which guarantees that military systems are available and operational when needed.
What is operational readiness?
During the EMD phase, these are built and tested to validate design, performance, and manufacturability before full-rate production begins.
What are prototypes?
In RCM, this type of analysis identifies potential failure modes, their causes, and their impact on system operations.
What is Failure Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA)?
This step of the risk management process evaluates the likelihood and potential impact of identified risks to prioritize them effectively.
What is risk assessment or risk analysis?
This IPS element defines the actions and schedules needed to maintain system readiness and ensure efficient lifecycle maintenance.
What is Maintenance Planning & Management?
This milestone is critical for determining whether a program is ready to move from development to production and deployment.
What is Milestone C?
This critical review during the EMD phase ensures that the system design meets requirements and is ready for Low-Rate Initial Production (LRIP).
What is the Critical Design Review (CDR)?
RRCM uses this structured approach to evaluate the likelihood and consequences of potential failures during the development process.
What is risk assessment or risk analysis?
During the Engineering and Manufacturing Development phase, risks related to these two critical areas are a major focus to ensure production readiness.
What are design stability and manufacturing feasibility?
This IPS element ensures that all necessary spares, consumables, and repair parts are available when needed for system operation and maintenance.
What is Supply Support?
Effective Defense Life Cycle Support Planning minimizes this, which includes all costs associated with a system from development through disposal.
What is total ownership cost?
The EMD phase focuses on identifying and mitigating these, which could impact cost, schedule, or performance during production and deployment.
What are technical risks?
The "bathtub" curve illustrates the lifecycle of a system's failure rates, which include these three distinct phases critical to understanding system reliability.
What are infant mortality, steady-state (useful life), and wear-out phases?
To manage identified risks, program managers implement these strategies, which can include avoidance, control, transfer, or acceptance.
What are risk mitigation strategies?