Enclosure 6: Life-Cycle Sustainment PlanningIncreased emphasis on sustainment and operation and support costs • The PM will employ “should-cost” management and analysis implement a performance-based product support strategy that includes: • Sustainment metrics • A reliability improvement program based on FMECA • Competition, or the option to compete • Intellectual Property (IP) deliverables • Requires a Life-Cycle Sustainment Plan (LCSP) for all programs • Approved by AT&L for ACAT ID and IAM programs and by the CAE or designee for all other ACAT programs • Updated at each decision point and includes annexes for: • Business Case Analysis – Assumptions, constraints, and analyses used to develop the support strategy • Core Logistics Analysis to determine applicability of core depot-level requirements IAW 10 U.S.C 2366a • Preservation and Storage of Unique Tooling Plan – For MDAPS IAW Public Law 110-417 to support MS C 45
