Assess whether condemnation rates imply a quality escape after a OEM
August 31, 2026
SITUATION Depot Procurement Intelligence work in an engineering support activity reviewing alternate sources now turns on condemnation rates imply a because a OEM end-of-life notice with 90 days of stock put alternate-source qualification packet in play. Repair-vs-buy decision support lead should say what alternate-source qualification packet proves.
DECISION Repair-vs-buy decision support lead in an engineering support activity reviewing alternate sources must choose Fund and move materiel / Cannibalize or substitute / Defer a cycle / Hold using alternate-source qualification packet after a OEM end-of-life notice with 90 days of stock.
HYPOTHESES TO TEST 1. The population in alternate-source qualification packet is the one a OEM end-of-life notice with 90 days of stock named, so Fund and move materiel follows for this Depot Procurement Intelligence file. 2. The population in alternate-source qualification packet is adjacent only to a OEM end-of-life notice with 90 days of stock; Cannibalize or substitute is the honest Defense Sustainment call. 3. An engineering support activity reviewing alternate sources already contained a OEM end-of-life notice with 90 days of stock before alternate-source qualification packet arrived; no new Depot Procurement Intelligence path. 4. Provenance on alternate-source qualification packet after a OEM end-of-life notice with 90 days of stock is broken; do not pick Fund and move materiel or Cannibalize or substitute yet.
ANALYSIS REQUIRED 1. Compare on-hand, due-in, and condemned quantities in alternate-source qualification packet. 2. Quantify mission impact if condemnation rates imply a is deferred one cycle in an engineering support activity reviewing alternate sources. 3. Reconcile depot demand in alternate-source qualification packet to fleet readiness and NSN coverage after a OEM end-of-life notice with 90 days of stock. 4. For this Defense Sustainment Depot Procurement Intelligence file, read alternate-source qualification packet against a OEM end-of-life notice with 90 days of stock and write the one fact that would move condemnation rates imply a for repair-vs-buy decision support lead.
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 a OEM end-of-life notice with 90 days of stock). Lead with the Defense Sustainment option alternate-source qualification packet can support after a OEM end-of-life notice with 90 days of stock, then the two facts that force it, then the Monday action for repair-vs-buy decision support lead in an engineering support activity reviewing alternate sources.
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