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DMSMS/Obsolescence related directives, guidelines, papers, and technical reports which may assist the user to understand or help manage obsolescence. (Most of the following have been provided in PDF format.)
Resolution Cost Factors for Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages, Final Report 1999
(Rev. May 1999)
Defense Microelectronics Activity (DMEA)
The cost of resolving DMSMS problems is a concern to Department of Defense (DoD) program managers. DMEA is developing cost drivers for various DMSMS resolutions so that DoD programs can uniformly report cost avoidance and determine the cost impact of implementing a DMSMS program. ARINC identified the resolutions most commonly used by DoD and developed nonrecurring engineering cost factors for each. See Table 2-3 of this document and Supplemental Report, 2001
Nonrecurring Cost Factors for DMSMS Resolutions
(May 1999)
Defense Microelectronics Activity (DMEA)
A chart is provided of potential nonrecurring engineering costs associated with the resolution of DMSMS cases, using alternative solutions. Chart is a guide for program managers to determine program impact.
US Code : Title 10, Section 2213, Limitation on Acquisition of Excess Supplies
(as of: 01/26/98)
Defense Logistics: Actions Needed to Enhance Success of Reengineering Initiatives
(June 2000)
US General Accounting Office Report to Congressional Committees
DoD Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages (DMSMS) Guidebook
(Version 2.1), DTD 1 Nov 06
The guidebook is a compilation of the best proactive practices from across the DOD for managing the risk of obsolescence. It also identifies assorted measurement tools that may be useful in analyzing and tracking the effectiveness of DMSMS programs. The guidebook addresses both electrical and mechanical parts obsolescence issues. Program Managers should make this guidebook the desktop reference to quickly pinpoint key actions required in managing DMSMS issues and concerns.
OSD Letter - DoD Centralized database for DMS
(1995)
OSD Letter on DOD's Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages Centralized Data Base. This letter was signed in 1995 and designates GIDEP as DOD's centralized data base for managing DMSMS information.
OSD Memo on DMEA
(1997)
OSD Memorandum on Designation of the Defense Microelectronics Activity as the Executive Agent for DOD Integrated circuit (IC) Diminishing manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages Activities. This memo was issued in 1997 and contains the designation and the draft charter.
GAO Audit - DOD Could Better Manage Parts With Limited Manufacturing Sources
(August 1990)
This GAO audit was conducted to review DOD's efforts in dealing with DMSMS. This report is useful in getting an understanding of some of DLA and the services' initial DMSMS issues, how they were dealt with, and what problems remained.
GAO Audit - Extent of Diminishing Manufacturing Sources Problems Still Unknown
(APRIL 1995)
This GAO audit is a follow-on to the August 1990 report to see if DOD had been making progress in managing DMSMS issues. Several key areas were discussed which included designating GIDEP as the central repository for DMSMS information and DOD establishing some predictive analysis capabilities.
DMEA DMSMS Acquisition Guidelines Rev. 3
Implementing Parts Obsolescence Management Contractual Requirements
These Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages (DMSMS) acquisition guidelines compile the ideas and comments expressed by experienced program managers over the past few years at a variety of forums, meetings, and conferences. This Acquisition Guidelines document for DMSMS provides the program manager and the integrated product team (IPT) with suggested contractual language that could be used to prepare a request for proposal (RFP) or to modify an existing contract to include cost effective DMSMS practices. This document is an adjunct to and its use is complementary with the Resolution Cost Metrics for DMSMS, Program Managers Handbook-Common Practices to Mitigate the Risk of Obsolescence-and the resolution guides referenced therein.
DoD Supply Chain Materiel Management Regulation
DoD 4140.1-R (MAY 2003)
Requirements and procedure on the uniform management of DoD materiel. Cancels DoD 4140.1-R "DoD Materiel Management Regulation", May 1998.
Product Support Boundaries (dtd 1 AUG 04)
This document delineates the strategic construct for innovative sustainment, bounded by applicable policy and standards, to ensure a consistent support structure for the warfighter. It consolidates into a single document recommended approaches to sustainment with associated policy and standards for key support areas. It was developed to guide Program Managers and their sustainment staffs in pursuit of more effective ways to support new and current weapon systems.
Performance Based Logistics: A Program Manager’s Product Support Guide (10 Nov 04)
Performance-Based Logistics (PBL) is the preferred Department of Defense product support strategy to improve weapon system readiness by procuring performance, which capitalizes on integrated logistics chains and public/private partnerships. The cornerstone of PBL is the purchase of weapon system sustainment as an affordable, integrated package, based on output measures such as weapon system availability, rather than input measures, such as parts and technical services.
Memorandum for the Total Life Cycle Systems Management Executive Council
Subject: DoD Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages (DMSMS) Working Group. Establishes the Chairmain of the DMSMS Working Group.
Available off the GIDEP membership site.
Memorandum for the Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics
Subject: Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on High Performance Microchip Supply. Report makes recommendations that help ensure the long term, leading edge U.S. performance of microchip design, development, and manufacturing and focuses to ensure long term trusted and secure supplies of microelectronic components to the Dod and to the U.S. Government.
Defense Standardization Program Journal (Apr/Jun 2008)
The previous issue of the Defense Standardization Program (DSP) Journal featured the Government-Industry Data Exchange Program (GIDEP), one of two programs recently merged with the Defense Standardization Program Office (DSPO). In the current (Apr/Jun 2008) edition of the DSP Journal features the second recent addition -- the Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages (DMSMS) program. The articles featured in this issue discuss training, automated tools, the DoD Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages (DMSMS) Guidebook. (SD-22), and other resources for addressing DMSMS-related support issues.
Diminishing Manufacturing Sources (DMS) Studies For Joint Tactical Information Distribution Systems (JTIDS)
C - F30602-95-D-CQ28/0005 (April 1998)
A feasibility assessment and rough estimate of cost for eliminating part obsolescence on JTIDS boards by using third part suppliers. Results are used to support future acquisition strategies for JTIDS.
Case Resolution Guide (Version 2)
(March 2001)
The Case Resolution Guide provides an in-depth look at each of the actions required to resolve a Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages (DMSMS) case. Many tools, resource and reference lists, work-sheets and sample calculation formats are provided.
Military Products From Commercial Lines; Business Practices Manual; Volume IA
AFRL-ML-WP-TR-1999-4112 (February 1999)
This Business Practices (BP) Manual provides best practices that promote the development and manufacture of military products using commercial sources.
Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Materiel Shortages (DMSMS)
Program
AFMC Instruction 23-103 (13 October 2000)
Available off the GIDEP membership site. This instruction updates organization symbols, revises responsibilities to reflect the automation of the notification process, and changes the requirement for a manual historical file to reflect the mandatory use of the Government Industry Data Exchange Program (GIDEP) Management Information System. Development and implementation of performance based requirements and open systems architecture are integral to minimizing future DMSMS impacts and now required for consideration as part of the management process.
Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages (DMSMS) Program
NAVSUPINST 4800.6A (27 MAR 2001)
This Instruction for the Naval Supply Command that establishes procedures for DMSMS situations that result in loss of supply of parts, components and items of supply.
Top Eleven Way to Manage Technical Risk
NAVSO P-3686 (Oct 1998)
This guide details the methods that can be used to manage and reduce technical risk, including DMSMS.
Case Resolution Procedures Guide - NAVSEA Guide
Case Resolution Procedures Guide is intended to provide assistance in both reactive and proactive DMSMS problem identification, analysis, and resolution.
Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages (DMSMS) Management Guidance
(JAN 27 2005)
This memorandum provides Department of the Navy (DoN) guidance for management of Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages (DMSMS). It is applicable to all DoN Acquisition Category (ACAT) Programs (including joint programs) that have cognizance over embedded microelectronics.
Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages
Guidance for Developing Contractural Requirements
(APR 2006)
The memorandum, signed by ASN(RD&A), forwards guidance for program managers developing contractual requirements supporting Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages (DMSMS) efforts. The tenets provided in the guide apply to all contract types and are aligned with the Total Life Cycle Systems Management (TLCSM) support philosophy.
Aging Aircraft IPT Newsletter The Age Page
Available off the GIDEP membership site.
Winter 2007
SECNAV INSTRUCTION 5200.39A
(23 Dec 2005)
Prescribes Navy participation in GIDEP and includes a sample GIDEP program contract clause.
Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages
AMC-P 5-23 (18 March 1999)
The purpose of this pamphlet is to establish processes for identifying and resolving the problems associated with (DMSMS). It documents the Army's DMSMS Program and assigns overall management of the program.
Available off the GIDEP membership site.
USMC Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages Working Group Charter
Identifies and establishes the USMC DMSMS Working Group.
1998 Technology Roadmap For Integrated Circuits Used in Critical Applications
SAND98-1914
Sandia National Laboratories
Integrated Circuits (ICs) are being extensively used in commercial and government applications that have extreme consequences of failure. The roadmap provided in this report provides guidance when developing and applying IC's in critical applications.
An Economic Method for Evaluating - Electronic Component Obsolescence Solutions
(May, 1998)
Boeing Information Space & Defense Systems
Obsolescence is an issue affecting avionics suppliers and airframe manufacturers throughout the aircraft/aerospace industry. This paper addresses the problem faced by the avionics supplier in the selection of an obsolescence solution, and the economic trades that will identify decision points in a buy vs. redesign solution.
GEB1, Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages (DMSMS) Management Practices
The Government Electronics and Information Technology Association (GEIA) G-12 Solid State Devices Committee developed a set of DMSMS management practices that can be used by original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) during the design and development of electronic systems to mitigate the effects of DMSMS.
Combating Electronic Component Obsolescence by Using Common Processes for Defense and Commercial Aerospace Electronics
Electronic components are found in almost every system, including those that are primarily mechanical, hydraulic, and pneumatic..
North American Technology and Industrial
Base Organization (NATIBO) Study Report (April 2001)
Collaborative Opportunities in DMSMS
Available off the GIDEP membership site. The North American Technology and Industrial Base Organization (NATIBO) is chartered to promote a cost-effective, healthy technology and industrial base that is responsive to the national security and economic progress of the United States and Canada. In August of 2000, the NATIBO Technology Base Enhancement Working Group initiated a six month study on Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages (DMSMS).
Electronic Part Obsolescence Driven Product Redesign Optimization (01-SEP-2002)
Available off the GIDEP membership site. This paper presents a methodology for determining the optimum design refresh (redesign) schedule for long field life electronic systems based on forecasted electronic part obsolescence and a mix of obsolescence mitigation approaches ranging from lifetime buys to part substitution.
A Data Mining Based Approach To Electronic Part Obsolescence Forecasting (01-APR-2005)
Available off the GIDEP membership site. This paper demonstrates the use of data mining based algorithms to augment commercial obsolescence risk databases by increasing their predictive capabilities. The method is a combination of life cycle curve forecasting and the e determination of electronic part vendor-specific windows of obsolescence using data mining of historical last-order or last-ship dates.
Electronic Part Life Cycle Concepts and Obsolescence Forecasting (01-DEC-2000)
Available off the GIDEP membership site. A methodology to forecast life cycles of electronic parts is presented, in which both years to obsolescence and life cycle stages are predicted. The methodology embeds both market and technology factors based on the dynamic assessment of sales data.
Forecasting Technology Insertion Concurrent With Design Refresh Planning For COTS-Based Electronic Systems (03-JUN-2003)
Available off the GIDEP membership site. This paper describes a methodology for forecasting technology insertion concurrent with obsolescence driven design refresh planning. The optimized parameter is the life cycle cost of the system.
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