Keeping Complex Systems Working for Decades

There are 3 important first steps to keeping complex systems working for decades:

1. Realize you don’t have to start from scratch, others have established the fundamentals of good sustainment.
2. Realize you might be many things and have many responsibilities and tasks, but you are a primarily a sustainer. As a sustainer, your mission is the system’s mission. This means saving money is secondary to mission success.
3. Attend one of my briefings such as the one I gave at the AIAA LA-LV New Space conference that was held this month in Redondo Beach.

Failing that, download my charts here:

Keeping Complex Systems Working for Decades

Note: This file is PowerPoint and includes my notes under each chart.

If you can’t read PowerPoint charts, here’s the pdf: Keeping Complex Systems Working for Decades