Assess whether cost history can support a fair-and-reasonable call (09b5ea)

SITUATION After a mission-capable rate drop tied to one NSN, depot transaction file with duplicate document numbers is what repair-vs-buy decision support lead can touch in an engineering support activity reviewing alternate sources. Defense Sustainment will live with Fund and move materiel versus Cannibalize or substitute on this Depot Procurement Intelligence file.

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 depot transaction file with duplicate document numbers after a mission-capable rate drop tied to one NSN.

HYPOTHESES TO TEST 1. The population in depot transaction file with duplicate document numbers is the one a mission-capable rate drop tied to one NSN named, so Fund and move materiel follows for this Depot Procurement Intelligence file. 2. The population in depot transaction file with duplicate document numbers is adjacent only to a mission-capable rate drop tied to one NSN; Cannibalize or substitute is the honest Defense Sustainment call. 3. An engineering support activity reviewing alternate sources already contained a mission-capable rate drop tied to one NSN before depot transaction file with duplicate document numbers arrived; no new Depot Procurement Intelligence path. 4. Provenance on depot transaction file with duplicate document numbers after a mission-capable rate drop tied to one NSN is broken; do not pick Fund and move materiel or Cannibalize or substitute yet.

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 depot transaction file with duplicate document numbers. 3. Quantify mission impact if cost history can support is deferred one cycle in an engineering support activity reviewing alternate sources. 4. For this Defense Sustainment Depot Procurement Intelligence file, read depot transaction file with duplicate document numbers against a mission-capable rate drop tied to one NSN and write the one fact that would move cost history can support 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 (depot transaction file with duplicate document numbers after a mission-capable rate drop tied to one NSN). If depot transaction file with duplicate document numbers cannot force a Defense Sustainment label under Depot Procurement Intelligence, stop. Do not invent missing evidence an engineering support activity reviewing alternate sources does not have.