My papers on planning and executing complex system sustainment:
Fundamentals of Weapon System Sustainment
First Steps in Implementing Weapon System Sustainment Model
Fundamentals of Sustainment: Affordable Observation and Assessment
Best Approaches to Assessment During the Sustainment Phase
Sustainment Organizations: People and Teams
My papers on specific applications of the complex system sustainment management model:
Application of the Complex System Sustainment Management Model to Global Climate Control
Application of a Weapon System Sustainment Model to the Space Industry (with co-author)
Not my paper, but an important seminal work in the fundamentals of sustainment is included here as well. It can also be found at the Defense Acquisition University web site. Authors are USAF Colonel Rakesh Dewan and David Lindblad, TRW Inc.
Another important paper, and more recent (2022), discusses the improvement of “if…then” risk statements versus the NASA James Webb risk statement: “Given <>, it is possible that <>, resulting in <>.”