bob10
16th January 2021, 12:23 PM
The F-35 sustainment system also prevents participants from stockpiling their own spares for a crisis. All spares are owned and held by the program and are warehoused around the world. If you need them, you have to rely on a just-in-time model to deliver them—except the model doesn’t work (https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-19-321) anywhere near as well as we’ve come to expect from companies like Amazon, even in peacetime. So, you have to order your just-in-time spares two years in advance. The ‘autonomic logistics information system’ that is meant to understand and manage demand for spares is so clunky the US Department of Defense is junking it and starting over with a (hopefully) better one that doesn’t rely on 1990s software (https://fas.org/sgp/crs/weapons/RL30563.pdf) and is designed from the outset to operate in the cloud.
Australia will be a regional repair and warehousing hub (https://www.australiandefence.com.au/defence/air/australia-chosen-as-jsf-maintenance-hub) in the current JSF model; hopefully Defence has done its due diligence to test whether that model with withstand the demands of wartime use. Nevertheless, Australia still can’t own and stockpile its own spares even if it wants to spend the money.
Editors’ picks for 2020: ‘Is the F-35 a poster child for a pre-pandemic paradigm?’ | The Strategist (aspistrategist.org.au) (https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/editors-picks-for-2020-is-the-f-35-a-poster-child-for-a-pre-pandemic-paradigm/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Weekly%20The%20Strategist&utm_content=Weekly%20The%20Strategist+CID_ae0c1043 e804097b7bd989bb986ef9f5&utm_source=CampaignMonitor&utm_term=Editors%20picks%20for%202020%20Is%20the%2 0F-35%20a%20poster%20child%20for%20a%20pre-pandemic%20paradigm)
Australia will be a regional repair and warehousing hub (https://www.australiandefence.com.au/defence/air/australia-chosen-as-jsf-maintenance-hub) in the current JSF model; hopefully Defence has done its due diligence to test whether that model with withstand the demands of wartime use. Nevertheless, Australia still can’t own and stockpile its own spares even if it wants to spend the money.
Editors’ picks for 2020: ‘Is the F-35 a poster child for a pre-pandemic paradigm?’ | The Strategist (aspistrategist.org.au) (https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/editors-picks-for-2020-is-the-f-35-a-poster-child-for-a-pre-pandemic-paradigm/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Weekly%20The%20Strategist&utm_content=Weekly%20The%20Strategist+CID_ae0c1043 e804097b7bd989bb986ef9f5&utm_source=CampaignMonitor&utm_term=Editors%20picks%20for%202020%20Is%20the%2 0F-35%20a%20poster%20child%20for%20a%20pre-pandemic%20paradigm)