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Goverment Initiatives to Solve DMSMS

Over the past ten years it has become increasingly difficult to procure military grade components. This has caused a real impact on military procurement for new systems and spare parts. Diminishing Manufacturing Sources / Material Shortages mission was developed to tackle this obstacle. In the past few years, the DoD has been very aggressive in developing new initiatives that aid in the management of DMSMS. The following is a summary of some of the government initiatives designed to combat DMSMS. These initiatives deal with the identification of problem parts, feasibility of alternate parts, testing of commercial replacements, redesign of higher assemblies, information management systems tools, and many more as can be seen from the list.
Many other DMSMS initiatives probably exist and additions to this list would be welcomed.

DoD

GOVERNMENT INDUSTRY DATA EXCHANGE PROGRAM (GIDEP) - GIDEP’s role as the manager for DMS issues within DoD has involved it in a number of new initiatives to enhance its ability to help resolve DMS difficulties.
SHARED DATA WAREHOUSE - A database application provides connectivity to several existing DMS sources.
TEAMING GROUP INITIATIVE - formalized group of representatives from DoD programs and industry that work together to share solutions to common component obsolescence problems
VIRTUAL PARTS SUPPLY BASE (VPSB) - objective is to improve the sustainability of Department of Defense weapon systems by augmenting the existing supply system with new technology

Navy

COLLABORATIVE LOGISTICS PRODUCTIVITY (CLP) - the successor to the Virtual System Implementation Program (VSIP). CLP provides a virtual workplace and improved business processes supporting the operations, modification and sustainability of legacy weapon systems, with an eye towards reducing life cycle costs of both new and legacy weapon systems
RAPID RETARGETING - a design process employing COTS simulation and modeling tools to capture the functionality of obsolescence-threatened electronic components using hardware descriptive language (HDL). The HDL software model enables the production of state-of-the-art form, fit and function legacy item replacements.
OBSOLESCENCE PREDICTION TOOL (OPT) - an application being developed as an enhanced design to the tool as first delivered in 1998. The new OPT will use a technology trend forecast engine and customer interface to allow engineers and logisticians to monitor the obsolescence-susceptibility of equipment from the system to the individual component level.

Army

RAPID RESPONSE TO CRITICAL SYSTEM REQUIREMENT (R2CSR) - coordinated by the Army Communication – Electronics Command will provide the mechanism for the repair or replacement of parts due to obsolescence, vanishing vendors, and inadequate engineering data.
MODERNIZATION THROUGH SPARES (MTS) - based on technology insertion and the use of commercial products, processes, and practices to extend a system’s useful life.
RADIATION TOLERANCE ASSURED SUPPLY AND SUPPORT CENTER (RTASSC) - establishes partnerships with vendors/distributors, manufacturers, and other government entities
AFFORDABLE SUSTAINMENT OF ARMY SYSTEMS - develop and demonstrate an automated Reverse Engineering system that will nondestructively extract the information necessary to remanufacture multi-layer printed wiring assemblies (PWAs)
PLASTIC ENCAPSULATED MICROCIRCUIT (PEM) COATING PROCESSES FOR MILITARY APPLICATIONS - objective is to enhance, demonstrate, and implement standardized processes for a coating system for integrated circuits (ICs) at the wafer level to provide near hermetic capabilities regardless of the packaging approach used.
ARMY DMSMS INFORMATION SYSTEM - integrate information received and data collected in existing, under development and new data/information systems. This data/information will then be "pushed" to the appropriate source(s)

Air Force

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