Assess whether an alternate source is technically qualified after UCAs older
August 31, 2026
SITUATION UCAs older than the local policy cap put BOM that still lists a cancelled spec in front of repair-vs-buy decision support lead in an engineering support activity reviewing alternate sources. This Defense Sustainment / Depot Procurement Intelligence decision is an alternate source is from BOM that still lists a cancelled spec, and the live options are Fund and move materiel, Cannibalize or substitute, Defer a cycle.
DECISION Repair-vs-buy decision support lead in an engineering support activity reviewing alternate sources must choose Fund and move materiel / Cannibalize or substitute / Defer a cycle / Hold using BOM that still lists a cancelled spec after UCAs older than the local policy cap.
HYPOTHESES TO TEST 1. The population in BOM that still lists a cancelled spec is the one UCAs older than the local policy cap named, so Fund and move materiel follows for this Depot Procurement Intelligence file. 2. The population in BOM that still lists a cancelled spec is adjacent only to UCAs older than the local policy cap; Cannibalize or substitute is the honest Defense Sustainment call. 3. An engineering support activity reviewing alternate sources already contained UCAs older than the local policy cap before BOM that still lists a cancelled spec arrived; no new Depot Procurement Intelligence path. 4. Provenance on BOM that still lists a cancelled spec after UCAs older than the local policy cap is broken; do not pick Fund and move materiel or Cannibalize or substitute yet.
ANALYSIS REQUIRED 1. Trace the funding or cannibalization line that would actually move BOM that still lists a cancelled spec. 2. Test whether the shortfall is materiel, maintenance posting, or a bad count. 3. Compare on-hand, due-in, and condemned quantities in BOM that still lists a cancelled spec. 4. For this Defense Sustainment Depot Procurement Intelligence file, read BOM that still lists a cancelled spec against UCAs older than the local policy cap and write the one fact that would move an alternate source is for repair-vs-buy decision support lead.
RECOMMENDATION Choose Fund and move materiel / Cannibalize or substitute / Defer a cycle / Hold on this Defense Sustainment / Depot Procurement Intelligence packet (BOM that still lists a cancelled spec after UCAs older than the local policy cap). Lead with the Defense Sustainment option BOM that still lists a cancelled spec can support after UCAs older than the local policy cap, then the two facts that force it, then the Monday action for repair-vs-buy decision support lead in an engineering support activity reviewing alternate sources.
COMMAND RETURNS - Bottom-line Defense Sustainment option on an alternate source is, then the evidence in BOM that still lists a cancelled spec, then the action for repair-vs-buy decision support lead - Hypothesis scorecard against BOM that still lists a cancelled spec: supported / rejected / untestable - Missing page in BOM that still lists a cancelled spec after UCAs older than the local policy cap, if any - Regulatory or exam hook Depot Procurement Intelligence would cite
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