Managing Sustaining Engineering in Weapon Systems: Phase I

CNA was tasked to study sustaining engineering by the VCNO. This research memorandum explains the origin of the tasking and describes the analytic and procedural approach to the problem as originally conceived. Some of the early substantive findings are reported. When preliminary results were briefed to the VCNO, the original tasking was revised and expanded. The general contents of subsequent documents in this series are also outlined.