Logistics Health Assessment (LHA)

The Air Force’s ability to maximize warfighting effectiveness hinges on establishing and maintaining a logistics support foundation throughout the system life cycle. Designed to complement the Air Force’s Product Support Toolkit (PSTK) and Independent Logistics Assessment (ILA) tools, the Air Force Logistics Health Assessment (LHA) provides the acquisition and sustainment communities a standard, tailorable, user friendly tool to report on and ensure long-term sustainment and availability considerations that can be identified and integrated into early program decisions. Ultimately, LHA enhances the potential for systems to be fielded with a support structure in place and optimizes the warfighter’s ability to meet mission performance requirements. The LHA is built around the 12 Integrated Product Support (IPS) elements outlined in Air Force Instruction (AFI) 63-101/20-101, Integrated Life Cycle Management, and utilizes intellectual capital documented in the following:  

• Product Support Toolkit (PSTK)
• DoD Logistics Assessment (LA) Guidebook
• Applicable Unit Compliance Inspection (UCI) checklists
• Portfolio Review Supportability Reporting guidelines

The LHA is a tool which provides the Air Force life cycle logistics community the capability to assess the logistics health of Defense Programs from concept to disposal. The LHA fills a void within logistics by providing a standardized, tailorable and user-friendly mechanism for assessing and measuring acquisition and sustainment/product support planning & execution to ensure long-term sustainment and supportability considerations are identified and integrated into early program decisions. Ultimately, this assessment enhances the potential for systems to be fielded with a support structure in place and optimizes the warfighter’s ability to meet mission performance requirements. The LHA is available from the Air Force Acquisition App Store (CAC required for access).

For more information

For additional information, contact the Air Force LHA POC at the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC/LZSB), DSN 785-7521.

For Air Force personnel, see also the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC) Logistics Community site.

Processes Supported

• Supply Chain Management (SCM)
• Other

Departments Associated

• Air Force

Integrated Product Support Elements Addressed

• Maintenance Planning and Management
• Product Support Management
• Supply Support
• Sustaining Engineering

Disclaimer

This tool was identified as part of a product support analytical tools database provided solely to assist defense acquisition workforce professionals to identify best value product support solutions which optimize system readiness and life cycle cost. Neither the Department of Defense or the Defense Acquisition University provide any warranty of these tools whatsoever, whether express, implied, or statutory, including, but not limited to, any warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose or any warranty that the contents of the item will be error-free. This analytical tools database should under no circumstances be considered as being all-encompassing, and is in no-wise meant to endorse the capabilities or products of any particular individual, company, or organization.