Published January 19, 2017 by Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Version 2.0

The Life-Cycle Sustainment Plan (LCSP) is the primary program management reference governing operations and support planning and execution from Milestone A to final disposal. The attached LCSP Version 2.0 outline revises the reference (a) version to reflect changes to statute, clarify previous guidance, expand the funding section to include cost estimates, Should Cost initiatives and Affordability considerations, and incorporate critical thinking questions.

The LCSP serves a valuable purpose as a tool in coordinating the efforts, resources, and investment of the DoD Materiel Commands such that down time for fielded weapons systems is managed through deliberate productivity improvement steps that continually lower the cost of readiness. This annotated outline was structured as a framework to assist weapons programs in thinking through the set of planning factors that must be integrated to achieve the sustainment results quantified in user specified requirements. An LCSP that logically integrates requirement, product support elements, funding, and risk management, establishes the groundwork for successful communication with Congressional, Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), and Component oversight staffs.

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