Assess whether an alternate source is technically qualified (60d697)

SITUATION DMSMS alert vs. current stock position arrived with a mission-capable rate drop tied to one NSN for repair-vs-buy decision support lead. That is a Defense Sustainment Depot Procurement Intelligence decision on an alternate source is in an engineering support activity reviewing alternate sources.

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 DMSMS alert vs. current stock position after a mission-capable rate drop tied to one NSN.

HYPOTHESES TO TEST 1. DMSMS alert vs. current stock position reads as Fund and move materiel once a mission-capable rate drop tied to one NSN is lined up to the same Defense Sustainment population. 2. DMSMS alert vs. current stock position is closer to Cannibalize or substitute after a mission-capable rate drop tied to one NSN; Fund and move materiel would over-claim this Depot Procurement Intelligence extract. 3. Defer a cycle is still live in DMSMS alert vs. current stock position for repair-vs-buy decision support lead in an engineering support activity reviewing alternate sources. 4. DMSMS alert vs. current stock position is missing the fact repair-vs-buy decision support lead needs after a mission-capable rate drop tied to one NSN; stop this Defense Sustainment close.

ANALYSIS REQUIRED 1. Quantify mission impact if an alternate source is is deferred one cycle in an engineering support activity reviewing alternate sources. 2. Reconcile depot demand in DMSMS alert vs. current stock position to fleet readiness and NSN coverage after a mission-capable rate drop tied to one NSN. 3. Trace the funding or cannibalization line that would actually move DMSMS alert vs. current stock position. 4. For this Defense Sustainment Depot Procurement Intelligence file, read DMSMS alert vs. current stock position against a mission-capable rate drop tied to one NSN 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 (DMSMS alert vs. current stock position after a mission-capable rate drop tied to one NSN). Lead with the Defense Sustainment option DMSMS alert vs. current stock position can support after a mission-capable rate drop tied to one NSN, 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 DMSMS alert vs. current stock position, then the action for repair-vs-buy decision support lead - Hypothesis scorecard against DMSMS alert vs. current stock position: supported / rejected / untestable - What changes an alternate source is if a mission-capable rate drop tied to one NSN is later withdrawn - Named option among Fund and move materiel, Cannibalize or substitute, Defer a cycle and the fact that kills the others