Modernization through spares for the Army's Light Tactical Vehicle
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Authors
Harger, Daryl P.
Subjects
Modernization Through Spares
Modernization
Modification
Acquisition Strategy
High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV)
Light Tactical Vehicle
Modernization
Modification
Acquisition Strategy
High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV)
Light Tactical Vehicle
Advisors
Naegle, Brad
Kang, Keebom
Date of Issue
2000-12
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Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
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en_US
Abstract
In recent years, the Department of the Army has responded to the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 1994 (FASA) and the Federal Acquisition Reform Act of 1996 (FARA) by implementing several policies and procedures. The policies are designed to cope with the challenge to operate with an ever- shrinking Defense budget and yet provide our wartighters with the weapon systems they need to succeed. One of the strategies employed by the Army to this end is Modernization Through Spares (MTS). in a 22 January 1996 memorandum sent Out by then Assistant Secretary of the Army (Research, Development and Acquisition), Gilbert F. Decker expressed his wishes to test the MTS concept on several programs, including the High Mobility Multi-purpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV). He illustrated the MTS concept through an example, "While the old strategy may have gotten us a good price on a vacuum tube, for example it is time to begin buying semi-conductor chips with dramatic reductions in life-cycle costs and dramatic improvements in performance and reliability." This research will analyze how the Program Manager (PM) of Light Tactical Vehicles (LTV) of the U.S. Army Materiel Command (AMC) implements Modernization Through Spares (MTS) for their HMMWV program. The objective is to establish the extent to which PM-LTV implements MTS and identify the methods used for MTS implementation in order to comply with the Army's strategy for MTS
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viii, 167 p.;28 cm.
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