Assess whether a cancelled spec is still being bought as if current (4e6a1f)

SITUATION Buys against a cancelled spec still in the parts master put alternate-source qualification packet in front of Hill AF logistics data reviewer in a program office facing a diminishing-manufacturing source. This Defense Sustainment / Depot Procurement Intelligence decision is a cancelled spec is from alternate-source qualification packet, and the live options are Fund and move materiel, Cannibalize or substitute, Defer a cycle.

DECISION Hill AF logistics data reviewer in a program office facing a diminishing-manufacturing source must choose Fund and move materiel / Cannibalize or substitute / Defer a cycle / Hold using alternate-source qualification packet after buys against a cancelled spec still in the parts master.

HYPOTHESES TO TEST 1. Authorize Fund and move materiel now; alternate-source qualification packet already has the discriminator after buys against a cancelled spec still in the parts master. 2. Keep Cannibalize or substitute in force until alternate-source qualification packet is completed after buys against a cancelled spec still in the parts master for Hill AF logistics data reviewer. 3. Treat alternate-source qualification packet as Defer a cycle because both readings appear after buys against a cancelled spec still in the parts master. 4. Refuse a Defense Sustainment close: Hill AF logistics data reviewer does not have the decision a cancelled spec is turns on in alternate-source qualification packet.

ANALYSIS REQUIRED 1. Test whether the shortfall is materiel, maintenance posting, or a bad count. 2. Compare on-hand, due-in, and condemned quantities in alternate-source qualification packet. 3. Quantify mission impact if a cancelled spec is is deferred one cycle in a program office facing a diminishing-manufacturing source. 4. For this Defense Sustainment Depot Procurement Intelligence file, read alternate-source qualification packet against buys against a cancelled spec still in the parts master and write the one fact that would move a cancelled spec is for Hill AF logistics data reviewer.

RECOMMENDATION Choose Fund and move materiel / Cannibalize or substitute / Defer a cycle / Hold on this Defense Sustainment / Depot Procurement Intelligence packet (alternate-source qualification packet after buys against a cancelled spec still in the parts master). The follow-on Depot Procurement Intelligence action is what Hill AF logistics data reviewer does next: implement the option, assign an owner, and log the missing fact.

COMMAND RETURNS - Bottom-line Defense Sustainment option on a cancelled spec is, then the evidence in alternate-source qualification packet, then the action for Hill AF logistics data reviewer - Hypothesis scorecard against alternate-source qualification packet: supported / rejected / untestable - Regulatory or exam hook Depot Procurement Intelligence would cite - Depot Procurement Intelligence finding in alternate-source qualification packet that a second reviewer can re-perform