TABLE OF CONTENTS Provisioning is the identification, procurement, and delivery of materials. It is often not cost effective to provision everything needed at the beginning of a system's acquisition. Long lead items are obtained as soon as firm data is established. To achieve early readiness objectives, the minimum amount of support items must be procured for the least amount of investment.
Additional items are then obtained in anticipation of predicted or scheduled needs based upon management plans and schedules. Maintenance factors are used in determining the rates at which items must be provisioned.
The Depot Recoverability Factor (DRF) represents the difference between the number of times an item is inducted into the Depot Level for repair (unscheduled only) and the number of times those items were repaired and made Ready For Issue (RFI):
Example:
* Note: See Appendix C for definitions.
The Maintenance Replaceable Factor (MRF) indicates the number of times an item will not be able to be repaired at the Organizational or Intermediate levels of maintenance in a single maintenance cycle. The item is sent to the Depot maintenance level for repair or disposition:
* Note: Beyond the Capability of Maintenance (BCM), Not Repairable This Station (NRTS). See Appendix C for definitions.
The rate that a consumable item will be replaced from its next higher assembly at the Organizational maintenance level is:
The rate that a consumable item will be replaced from its...
