Standards and Specifications - Logistics Support Analysis (LSA)

Worldwide, various jurisdictions invoke their preferred standards and specifications for delivering ILS/IPS data. As a market discriminator, Pennant’s Auxilium® toolset, particularly the GenS application, can transfer data between all worldwide specifications; simultaneously, it validates the LSA information to ensure compliance with the selected standard or specification data requirements.

Mil Std 1388

The first real ILS Standard was MIL STD 1388 series in 1983. In US, 1388-1a/2b were cancelled on 29 Nov 1996 and replaced with Mil-Hdbk-502 and Mil-PRF-49506. However, practitioners maintained that the old standard contained useful information, so elements are still used today.

 

ALP-10

ALP-10 is the NATO Integrated Lifecycle Support specification which is invoked by NATO STANAG 4876. ALP-10 takes a whole lifecycle view of the support solution following the principles of IPS (12/13 elements). Various standards and specifications are referred to including ASD and SAE specifications. NATO policy states that ALP-10 will be used on all multi-national procurement projects.

 

SAE Standards

Cancellation of Mil Std 1388 series was matched by the release of SAE standards to deliver similar project outputs. SAE-GEIA-Std-0007 (Logistics Support Analysis) and TA-Std-0017 (Logistics Support Analysis Record) have been issued together with XML data schemas to facilitate efficient data transfer.

 

UK Defence Standards

The UK has a convoluted history with ILS standards. UK copied Mil Std 1388 with Def Stan 00-60 in 1993. 00-60 was a complex document which provided guidance to commercial teams regarding contracting for ILS services. During the period 2001 to 2010, the 00-60 WG attempted to improve usability. In 2010 Issue 1 of Def Stan 00-600 was produced which was simpler but lost much of the commercial information. JSP886 issued in 2012 to support 00-600 but it was withdrawn in 2016; Chapter 7 of the JSP detailed the UK MOD ILS process. In 2016, the Defence Logistic Framework (DLF) became primary UK reference document.. The DLF is provided through the Knowledge in Defence portal to the UK MOD, but industry access is not granted universally.

 

Australian Defence Standards

Australia has issued its own LSA standards in the form of Def (Aust) 5691 (LSA) and 5692 (LSAR). Whilst these standards tend to follow the Mil-Std-1388 LSA approach, it is important to state that they were the first standards to take a through life approach. In effect, they combined ILS with In-service Support. The significance of this statement is that Australia was taking a through life approach to support well before the introduction of Integrated Product Support.