Designing for supportability, design interface, supportability analysis, logistics engineering, and of course, sustainment planning early in a system’s life cycle (including system requirements development as well as system product & process development) are foundational, fundamental tenants undergirding a range of functional DoD communities including-- but by no means limited to -- program management, requirements management, systems engineering and of course the life cycle logistics and product support manager workforce.

As you would expect, DAU offers a range of learning assets on these important topics, including:

• CLL 008 Designing for Supportability in DoD Systems
• CLL 012 Supportability Analysis
• CLL 030 Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)
• CLL 039 Product Support Requirements Identification
• CLL 057 Level of Repair Analysis (LORA) – Introduction
• CLL 058 Level of Repair Analysis (LORA) – Theory & Principles
• CLE 301 Reliability and Maintainability
• LOG 103 Reliability, Availability & Maintainability
• LOG 204 Configuration Management
• LOG 211 Supportability Analysis

As an interesting aside, Dr. Werner Von Braun, the noted NASA aerospace engineer in the early years of the American space program, gave an outstanding presentation on the importance of these topics in his September 1966 keynote address to the 1st Annual SOLE Symposium in Huntsville Alabama. Don’t let the fact this video is more than a half a century old – the message is timeless – and well worth remembering, applying, and revisiting.