Assess whether cost history can support a fair-and-reasonable call (8aafc6)
August 31, 2026
SITUATION A repair cost that exceeds replacement by 3x put repair-history file that will not tie to cost in front of obsolescence and DMSMS analyst in a workload that shifted from organic repair to contract. This Defense Sustainment / Depot Procurement Intelligence close is cost history can support from repair-history file that will not tie to cost, and the live options are Fund and move materiel, Cannibalize or substitute, Defer a cycle.
DECISION Obsolescence and DMSMS analyst in a workload that shifted from organic repair to contract must choose Fund and move materiel / Cannibalize or substitute / Defer a cycle / Hold using repair-history file that will not tie to cost after a repair cost that exceeds replacement by 3x.
HYPOTHESES TO TEST 1. Authorize Fund and move materiel now; repair-history file that will not tie to cost already has the discriminator after a repair cost that exceeds replacement by 3x. 2. Keep Cannibalize or substitute in force until repair-history file that will not tie to cost is completed after a repair cost that exceeds replacement by 3x for obsolescence and DMSMS analyst. 3. Treat repair-history file that will not tie to cost as Defer a cycle because both readings appear after a repair cost that exceeds replacement by 3x. 4. Refuse a Defense Sustainment close: obsolescence and DMSMS analyst does not have the decision cost history can support turns on in repair-history file that will not tie to cost.
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 repair-history file that will not tie to cost. 3. Quantify mission impact if cost history can support is deferred one cycle in a workload that shifted from organic repair to contract. 4. For this Defense Sustainment Depot Procurement Intelligence file, read repair-history file that will not tie to cost against a repair cost that exceeds replacement by 3x and write the one fact that would move cost history can support for obsolescence and DMSMS analyst.
RECOMMENDATION Choose Fund and move materiel / Cannibalize or substitute / Defer a cycle / Hold on this Defense Sustainment / Depot Procurement Intelligence packet (repair-history file that will not tie to cost after a repair cost that exceeds replacement by 3x). The follow-on Depot Procurement Intelligence action is what obsolescence and DMSMS analyst does next: implement the option, assign an owner, and log the missing fact.
COMMAND RETURNS - Bottom-line Defense Sustainment option on cost history can support, then the evidence in repair-history file that will not tie to cost, then the action for obsolescence and DMSMS analyst - Hypothesis scorecard against repair-history file that will not tie to cost: supported / rejected / untestable - Named option among Fund and move materiel, Cannibalize or substitute, Defer a cycle and the fact that kills the others - Owner and next date for obsolescence and DMSMS analyst in a workload that shifted from organic repair to contract
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