Best practice Performance Based Logistics (PBL) contracts often use some
combination of "carrots and stick" strategies that are tightly aligned, promoting
behaviors and outcomes that benefit both the customer and supplier. - ANSWER-True
Life cycle costs consist of research and development costs, investment costs, operating
and support costs, and disposal costs over the entire life cycle. - ANSWER-True
Logisticians and engineers who perform sustainment analyses should have a basic
understanding of operations, system missions and profiles and the system capabilities. -
ANSWER-True
Logistics plans are executed and altered over the many years of deployed operation,
with Operations and Support (O&S) costs typically accounting for only 10 to 20 percent
of a system. - ANSWER-False
One way to support the Department's goal of incentivizing, and ultimately improving,
productivity and affordability of the Department's weapon systems is to increase the
application of Performance Based Logistics (PBL) solutions for the department's
systems, subsystems, and components. - ANSWER-True
Performance Based Logistics (PBL) is based on long term Warfighter-driven thinking. -
ANSWER-True
Performance Based Logistics (PBL) is synonymous with performance based life cycle
product support. - ANSWER-True
The Product Support Business Model (PSBM) was developed to assist the PM and
PSM, who must be tightly aligned, with the numerous supportability considerations and
trade-offs that take place during the development and fielding of a weapon system. -
ANSWER-True
Traditional/Transactional Based Logistics support organizations through Product
Support Arrangements (PSAs). - ANSWER-False
What is the focus of sustainment operations during the Materiel Solution Analysis
Phase? - ANSWER-ANSWER IS NOT "Optimizing system sustainment through
designed-in criteria to help ensure sustainability"
What is the primary life cycle sustainment objective of the Engineering and
Manufacturing Development (EMD) phase? - ANSWER-Developing the requirements
for the long-term performance-based support concepts