Through-Life Systems Management February 26, 2012

Militaries around the world are continuously working towards delivering new defence capabilities to meet current and future requirements of warfighters. However, as systems begin to mature, it is important for officers to develop a systematic approach to manage maturing capabilities to sustain operational capability at all times. In particularly, with continuing concerns on cost constraints, militaries are looking for best practices to extend the lifecycle of their key systems.

Through-Life Systems Management(TLSM) approach has been adopted widely in translating warfighters’ requirements into effective and efficient acquisitions of programmes to deliver the required capabilities. However, while this framework has been proven effective, the task of planning systems’ lifecycle supportability and availability remains complex and challenging. One of the main reasons being, acquisition lifecycle don’t simply consider the process of acquiring one system, but also to capture and integrate the multiple interdependencies to deliver optimum systems of systems capability.

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