ABSTRACT
The logistics specialty engineering activity seeks to identify features that will result in optimum supportability in terms of maintenance (testing, servicing, handling, etc.), spares provisioning, support equipment, personnel stafng and training, and technical publications. A more current name for this area of interest is system sustainment as it is referred to on the common process diagram in System Management: Planning, Enterprise Identity, and Deployment (Grady, in press) and in Figure 27.1 extracted from the common process diagram included in the management book. The whole life cycle consists of system development and system employment. System employment consists of system sustainment and use system, the latter involving the operational employment of the system to achieve the ends suggested in the original system need statement.
