Through-Life Systems Management and Support

Monday December 15, 2008 - Wednesday December 17, 2008

Holiday Inn Parkview Singapore
11 Cavenagh Road
Singapore, Central Singapore 229616

This 3-day training course will provides project personnel a good understanding and overview of through life management and support. It shall examine topics such as whole life systems outlook, costing, involvement of stakeholders, through-life management plan, contractor logistic support, service delivery and evaluation, defence supply & support chains, and operational surge, in order to assess the risks and business opportunities within the commitments to programmes.

The rapid tempo of technological change today far outstrips development cycles for military systems. Before a system is fielded, the technology upon which it is based can become obsolete. Requirements meanwhile also creep or change during system development adding to the already complex process. Deployed systems now have expected useful lives of several decades and their sustenance over the entire life cycle requires a difficult and costly endeavour. This requires that when we acquire a system today, we will also need to acquire the technology so that we can maintain, upgrade and subsequently integrate new systems and sub-systems to our acquisition.

Through-life systems management applies a whole life approach to managing system support and sustainability. At the front end it encompasses the supportability engineering, sustainability and cost impacts are accounted for, and the throughout the system life it continues to monitor, improve and adapt the support to the changing threats, operational requirements and environments.

Through-life systems management and support can be applied to legacy/in-service systems as well as new programmes, changing the support arrangements to suit new doctrines.

The course is designed for programme directors, project managers, systems engineers and military officers/users who are tasked with planning, directing and executing highly complex through life projects for the Ministry of Defence and military services. The course is designed to be rigorous where appropriate, while remaining accessible to students without a specific scientific background in this field.

This course is developed for Directors, HODs, Staff Officers, Programme Manages, Project Managers, Engineers and Technical Staff responsible for:

• Systems Management & Support
• Air, Land and Naval Systems
• C4ISR Systems
• Networked Systems
• Infocomm Infrastructure
• Defence Estates & Buildings
• Sensors & Surveillance Systems
• Enterprise IT
• Operations
• Capability Development
• Training & Simulation
• Logistics and Combat Service Support
• Procurement and Contracting

Key Organisations:

• Ministry of Defence
• Joint Services and Commands
• Air Force, Navy & Army HQ and Commands
• Police Force, Civil Defence & Prison Service
• Defence Science & Technology Agency
• Defence Research Labs & Institutes
• All government agencies interested in through-life systems management & support
• All industries & contractors interested in through-life systems management & support

Email: t...@k2b.com.sg