Assess whether cost history can support a fair-and-reasonable call (35a89b)

SITUATION Depot Procurement Intelligence work in a depot whose parts master does not match DLA now turns on cost history can support because a OEM end-of-life notice with 90 days of stock put contract vehicle vs. actual buy pattern in play. NSN research lead should say what contract vehicle vs. actual buy pattern proves.

DECISION NSN research lead in a depot whose parts master does not match DLA must choose Fund and move materiel / Cannibalize or substitute / Defer a cycle / Hold using contract vehicle vs. actual buy pattern after a OEM end-of-life notice with 90 days of stock.

HYPOTHESES TO TEST 1. Authorize Fund and move materiel now; contract vehicle vs. actual buy pattern already has the discriminator after a OEM end-of-life notice with 90 days of stock. 2. Keep Cannibalize or substitute in force until contract vehicle vs. actual buy pattern is completed after a OEM end-of-life notice with 90 days of stock for NSN research lead. 3. Treat contract vehicle vs. actual buy pattern as Defer a cycle because both readings appear after a OEM end-of-life notice with 90 days of stock. 4. Refuse a Defense Sustainment close: NSN research lead does not have the decision cost history can support turns on in contract vehicle vs. actual buy pattern.

ANALYSIS REQUIRED 1. Reconcile depot demand in contract vehicle vs. actual buy pattern to fleet readiness and NSN coverage after a OEM end-of-life notice with 90 days of stock. 2. Trace the funding or cannibalization line that would actually move contract vehicle vs. actual buy pattern. 3. Test whether the shortfall is materiel, maintenance posting, or a bad count. 4. For this Defense Sustainment Depot Procurement Intelligence file, read contract vehicle vs. actual buy pattern against a OEM end-of-life notice with 90 days of stock and write the one fact that would move cost history can support for NSN research lead.

RECOMMENDATION Choose Fund and move materiel / Cannibalize or substitute / Defer a cycle / Hold on this Defense Sustainment / Depot Procurement Intelligence packet (contract vehicle vs. actual buy pattern after a OEM end-of-life notice with 90 days of stock). If contract vehicle vs. actual buy pattern cannot force a Defense Sustainment label under Depot Procurement Intelligence, stop. Do not invent missing evidence a depot whose parts master does not match DLA does not have.

COMMAND RETURNS - Bottom-line Defense Sustainment option on cost history can support, then the evidence in contract vehicle vs. actual buy pattern, then the action for NSN research lead - Hypothesis scorecard against contract vehicle vs. actual buy pattern: supported / rejected / untestable - What changes cost history can support if a OEM end-of-life notice with 90 days of stock is later withdrawn - Named option among Fund and move materiel, Cannibalize or substitute, Defer a cycle and the fact that kills the others