A study on the development of Logistic Support system

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Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology 1999;2(2):166-172.

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군수 지원시스템 개발 방법에 관한 연구

신주환, 전완수, 김형렬

국방연구소

Abstract

Weapon system is defined as a combination of primary system and logistics support system which are evaluated by capability and operational availability respectively. Weapon system developer thought that primary system was weapon system and also only primary system was important. Recent comparison of total life cycle cost showed that logistics support system was proved to be more important than primary system. However, until now no systematic approach to logistics support system development have applied in the area of developing support system and much money was exhausted by wrong logistics support system. We need to construct a universal metric for effectiveness of logistics support system and to cut out whatever activities or support elements which do not contribute to the metrics. This study describes a new approach under the name function approach to logistics support system development and also classifies five factors of failure frequency, stock out of frequency, administrative delay time, active repair time and logistic delay time that have influence on operational availability of logistics support system.

Key Words: Weapon system, Primary system, Logistics Support system, Life cycle cost, Effectiveness, Operational availability