Sustainment Engineering

Sustainment engineering is the technical effort to support an in-service system in its operational environment to ensure continued operation and maintenance of the system. It is the engineering and analytical process of assessing and improving a system and/or equipment’s ability to "bear up" under continued operation, maintenance and "unexpected change".

Sustainment Engineering Support Tasks

• In-service engineering
• Re-qualification of new parts
• Redesign from modernization or supportability
• Software upgrade and maintenance
• ECP prototyping and testing
• Engineering change proposal development
• Field change kit development
• Installation planning and documentation
• Integrated logistics product modifications
• System performance monitoring and tracking
• Land based testing and system interoperability analysis and engineering
• System security engineering
• Manage and implement of support systems integration strategies
• Application of diagnostics, prognostics, and other condition based maintenance techniques
• Coordination of logistics information technology and other enterprise integration efforts
• Implementation of logistics foot print reduction strategies
• Coordination of mission area integration
• Identification of technology insertion opportunities
• Identification of operations and support cost reduction opportunities
• Monitoring of key support metrics