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FAM 104 Module 2 Study Guide with
Complete Solutions
Describe the goal of life cycle logistics and its importance - Answer✔✔-to ensure the design is
supportable and the support is designed.
List the 12 Integrated Product Support (IPS) Elements - Answer✔✔-1. Product Support (PS)
Management
2. Packaging, Handling, Storage, & Transportation (PHS&T)
3. Design Interface
4. Facilities
5. Sustaining Engineering
6. Supply Support
7. Support Equipment/Automatic Test Systems (SE/ATS)
8. Maintenance Planning & Management
9. Manpower & Personnel
10. Technical Data Management/Technical Orders(TDM/TOs)
11. Training
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12. Computer Resources
Define Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages (DMSMS) - Answer✔✔-The
loss or impending loss of manufacturers of items or suppliers of items or raw materials may
cause material shortages that endanger a weapon system's or equipment's development,
production, or post-production support capability.
Define Product Support - Answer✔✔-A continuous and collaborative set of activities that
establishes and maintains readiness and the operational capability of a system, subsystem, or
end-item throughout its lifecycle
Describe the purpose of Performance-Based Logistics (PBL) - Answer✔✔-To meet performance
goals through a support structure based on long-term performance agreements with clear lines
of authority and responsibility.
Describe the role of Air Logistics Complexes (ALC) - Answer✔✔-To provide the DoD an organic
capability to overhaul, repair, modify, and sustain new and existing weapons systems.
Describe organic support and Contractor Logistics Support (CLS) - Answer✔✔-The continuum of
support from pure organic (Government) to pure contractor (commercial) supported.
Define the Core and 50/50 laws - Answer✔✔-The Core Workload law is "essential for the
national defense that the DoD maintain a core logistics capability which is Government-owned
and Government-operated to ensure a ready and controlled source of technical competence
and resources necessary to ensure effective and timely response to a mobilization, national
defense contingency situations, and other emergency requirements".
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The 50/50 law states "...not more than 50% of the funds made available in a fiscal year to a
military department or a defense agency for depot-level maintenance and repair workload may
be used to contract for the performance by non-Federal Government personnel of such
workload for the military department or the defense agency.
Describe the Depot Source of Repair (DSOR) process - Answer✔✔-The DSOR is a two-part
process including both an Air Force and DoD Depot Maintenance Interservice (DMI) process.
The DSOR process is started pre-Milestone A by the PM with a Source of Repair Assignment
(SORA).
The second step in the DSOR process is the DMI Review, and is completely independent of the
SORA.
The DMI Review results in the final DSOR decision for a specific depot maintenance workload to
be repaired by an organic, contractor, or some specific/defined combination of organic and
contractor sources, to include their respective locations.
Identify eight elements of thought involved in critical thinking - Answer✔✔-1. Points of View
2. Purpose of the Thinking
3. Question at Issue
4. Information
5. Implications and Consequences
6. Inferences
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FAM 104 Module 2 Study Guide with
Complete Solutions
Describe the goal of life cycle logistics and its importance - Answer✔✔-to ensure the design is
supportable and the support is designed.
List the 12 Integrated Product Support (IPS) Elements - Answer✔✔-1. Product Support (PS)
Management
2. Packaging, Handling, Storage, & Transportation (PHS&T)
3. Design Interface
4. Facilities
5. Sustaining Engineering
6. Supply Support
7. Support Equipment/Automatic Test Systems (SE/ATS)
8. Maintenance Planning & Management
9. Manpower & Personnel
10. Technical Data Management/Technical Orders(TDM/TOs)
11. Training
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12. Computer Resources
Define Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages (DMSMS) - Answer✔✔-The
loss or impending loss of manufacturers of items or suppliers of items or raw materials may
cause material shortages that endanger a weapon system's or equipment's development,
production, or post-production support capability.
Define Product Support - Answer✔✔-A continuous and collaborative set of activities that
establishes and maintains readiness and the operational capability of a system, subsystem, or
end-item throughout its lifecycle
Describe the purpose of Performance-Based Logistics (PBL) - Answer✔✔-To meet performance
goals through a support structure based on long-term performance agreements with clear lines
of authority and responsibility.
Describe the role of Air Logistics Complexes (ALC) - Answer✔✔-To provide the DoD an organic
capability to overhaul, repair, modify, and sustain new and existing weapons systems.
Describe organic support and Contractor Logistics Support (CLS) - Answer✔✔-The continuum of
support from pure organic (Government) to pure contractor (commercial) supported.
Define the Core and 50/50 laws - Answer✔✔-The Core Workload law is "essential for the
national defense that the DoD maintain a core logistics capability which is Government-owned
and Government-operated to ensure a ready and controlled source of technical competence
and resources necessary to ensure effective and timely response to a mobilization, national
defense contingency situations, and other emergency requirements".
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The 50/50 law states "...not more than 50% of the funds made available in a fiscal year to a
military department or a defense agency for depot-level maintenance and repair workload may
be used to contract for the performance by non-Federal Government personnel of such
workload for the military department or the defense agency.
Describe the Depot Source of Repair (DSOR) process - Answer✔✔-The DSOR is a two-part
process including both an Air Force and DoD Depot Maintenance Interservice (DMI) process.
The DSOR process is started pre-Milestone A by the PM with a Source of Repair Assignment
(SORA).
The second step in the DSOR process is the DMI Review, and is completely independent of the
SORA.
The DMI Review results in the final DSOR decision for a specific depot maintenance workload to
be repaired by an organic, contractor, or some specific/defined combination of organic and
contractor sources, to include their respective locations.
Identify eight elements of thought involved in critical thinking - Answer✔✔-1. Points of View
2. Purpose of the Thinking
3. Question at Issue
4. Information
5. Implications and Consequences
6. Inferences
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