HIMARS: A High Performance PBL Case Study

Abstract

The DoD is facing three significant challenges regarding weapon systems acquisition and support: dwindling budgets, aging and worn-out inventory, and high deployment levels. At the same time, rising operations and sustainment costs are consuming larger portions of the defense budget, while declining supply chain performance continues to negatively impact availability, putting the safety of the warfighter at risk. This perfect storm of challenges is continuing to drive the DoD to look to adopt new strategies for weapon systems acquisition and sustainment that shrink total life cycle costs while improving system availability. Performance Based Logistics (PBL) is one such strategy.