Sustainment Engineering
Sustainment engineering is the technical effort to support an in-service system in its operational environment to ensure continued operation and maintenance of the system. It is the engineering and analytical process of assessing and improving a system and/or equipment’s ability to "bear up" under continued operation, maintenance and "unexpected change".
Sustainment Engineering Support Tasks
- In-service engineering
- Re-qualification of new parts
- Redesign from modernization or supportability
- Software upgrade and maintenance
- ECP prototyping and testing
- Engineering change proposal development
- Field change kit development
- Installation planning and documentation
- Integrated logistics product modifications
- System performance monitoring and tracking
- Land based testing and system interoperability analysis and engineering
- System security engineering
- Manage and implement of support systems integration strategies
- Application of diagnostics, prognostics, and other condition based maintenance techniques
- Coordination of logistics information technology and other enterprise integration efforts
- Implementation of logistics foot print reduction strategies
- Coordination of mission area integration
- Identification of technology insertion opportunities
- Identification of operations and support cost reduction opportunities
- Monitoring of key support metrics