Implementing readiness based sparing in the United States Marine Corps by analyzing the United States Army's implementation process
By:  Nicholas A. Spignesi
Publisher: Naval Postgraduate School; Available from National Technical Information Service
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Monterey, Calif; Springfield, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 84
Description: In 1985, the Secretary of Defense directed the services to adopt a weapons management inventory concept that      allows readiness and cost to be incorporated into setting inventory levels. The plan is laid out in the Department      of Defense's Secondary Item weapon Systems Management Concept. The key concept is increasing weapon      system readiness at lower costs. Today, this weapons system management concept is known as Readiness      Based Sparing (RBS) and has been implemented in all of the services with the exception of the Marine Corps.      The Marine Corps has started to progress toward RBS by chartering studies by the Center for Naval Analysis      including a review of RBS requirements and the situation of the present state of logistics systems and data      collection. CNA's conclusions suggest a difficult road in implementing RBS due to inaccurate data collection. It      is recommended that the Marine Corps examine the Army's implementation process due to weapon system      commonality and problems encountered in implementing RBS and develop their own implementation plan      spearhead by Precision Logistics. Once RBS is established as the inventory management model, the Marine      Corps will realize sufficient cost savings and increase in weapon systems readiness.
Notes: "December 1998."

Thesis advisor(s): Jane Feitler, James Suchan.

Thesis (M.S. in Management) Naval Postgraduate School, December 1998.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 79-81).

Approved for public release; distribution unlimited.

Also available online.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

System requirements: Adobe Acrobat reader.

US Marine Corps (USMC) author.

dk/dk cc:9116 02/12/99.