Sec. 870. Enhanced product support management for integrated sustainment of weapon systems
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Section 4324 of title 10, United States Code, is amended— in subsection (b)(1)— in subparagraph (B), by inserting in coordination with operational commands and users after appropriate metrics ; and by striking subparagraph
(I)and redesignating subparagraph
(J)as subparagraph (I); in subsection (c)— by amending paragraph
(1)to read as follows: The Secretary of Defense shall require that each covered system be supported by a product support manager that shall integrate sustainment activities across the Portfolio Acquisition Executive, materiel and systems commands, sustainment working capital funds, and other elements of the sustainment enterprise by establishing a coordinated process to ensure weapon system readiness and affordability throughout the lifecycle. ; in paragraph
(2)by striking subparagraphs
(B)through
(I)and inserting the following new subparagraphs: adopt predictive analytics and simulation and modeling tools to improve material availability and reliability, increase operational availability rates, and reduce operation and sustainment costs; select, transfer, direct, and coordinate product support integrators and product support providers across materiel commands, depots, sustainment working capital funds, and commercial entities to execute the product support strategy and maintain updated parts cataloging and provisioning; review and recommend resource allocations across product support integrators and product support providers to meet performance requirements of the product support strategy; prevent and resolve all diminishing manufacturing supply and material shortages and critical readiness parts and systems issues; manage the end-to-end coordination of qualification, certification, and test of alternative sources of supply; ensure evaluation of offerors on a solicitation includes— a parts selection plan that enables interoperability, maintainability, and commercially supportable designs; updated logistics product data and maintenance manuals; and data rights and data ordering consistent with the intellectual property management plan in the life cycle sustainment plan; inspect, accept, and manage data deliveries and conformance of such data with configuration changes in consultation with Defense Contract Management Agency; and update the product support strategy continuously as required, at a minimum every five years. ; and by adding at the end the following paragraphs: Each Portfolio Acquisition Executive shall establish a Major Program Manager to manage sustainment activities for in-service systems and oversee all product support managers of covered systems to ensure an expert focus on sustainment. The Secretary of Defense shall establish a formal career path for product support managers, including selection criteria, training programs, and certification requirements, aligned with the standards set forth in chapter 87 of this title. Product support managers shall be selected from military and civilian personnel with demonstrated expertise in sustainment, logistics, supply chain, or engineering, and incentivized with career progression opportunities equivalent to acquisition program managers. Each sustainment working capital fund entity shall establish a liaison officer program to serve as the dedicated point of contract to align working capital fund management with product support manager activities for all covered systems. ; and in subsection (d)— in paragraph
(5)by inserting any acquisition or in-service program that is after The term ; and covered system means by adding at the end the following new paragraph: The term critical readiness parts and systems means all parts and systems causing parts causing Mission Impaired Capability Awaiting Parts (MICAP), Not Mission Capable Supply (NMCS), or Casualty Report (CASREP) Category 3 or 4 status, as defined by the Department of Defense and respective military services, or other parts or systems designated by the Secretary of Defense as impacting readiness. .