CARIBBEAN SEA — Sept 28, 2025: A U.S. Marine with Kilo Company, Battalion Landing Team 3/6, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable), conducts fast rope sustainment training aboard the U.S. Navy Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7), while underway in the Caribbean Sea. U.S. Military forces are deployed to the Caribbean in support of the U.S. Southern Command mission, Department of War-directed operations, and the president’s priorities. Source: U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Emily Hazelbaker
structure, Manpower and Per - sonnel, Support Equipment, and Training Support. These groups may be used as the basis for constructing courses of ac - tion in a product support business case analysis, as an organizational construct for a product support inte - grated product team, or for workforce management and development. Ensuring that PMs understand their Sustainment Requirements at
the beginning of the program drives their collaboration with PSMs in building an affordable product sup - port strategy that meets the KPPs of Operational and Material Availability. Achieving the KPPs relies on incorpo - rating Key System Attributes (KSAs) into system specifications provided to industry partners. When establishing the KSA requirements of Reliability, Maintainability, and Operations and Sustainment Costs specified in the
contract with industry, the PM and PSM share accountability for deliv - ering a product that meets Warfight - ers’ needs. Practical tools such as sustainment driver trees, root cause and corrective action analysis, and projections of future performance provide the PMs and PSMs success - ful processes for delivering outcomes. A DASN-S September 2024 mem - orandum, “Life Cycle Logistics Civil - ian Leader Development and Talent Management,” to the DoN Systems Commands (SYSCOMs) and Military Sealift Command directed the iden - tification of senior executive or grade- appropriate LCL/Sustainment civil - ian leaders. Those chosen are part of the national LCL leadership team and are responsible for leading sus - tainment technology initiatives and
Additive manufacturing, digital twins, predictive analytics, and artificial intelligence-driven maintenance are transforming how the DoN designs, builds, and sustains.
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