Key F&I IPS stakeholder groups

Integrated Product Support

COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE

INTEGRATED PRODUCT SUPPORT (IPS)

BACKGROUND

NAVFAC IPS is a specialized program that focuses on global, regional, and local shore planning for the next generation of aircraft, ships, submarines, and other weapon systems. The program aligns supportability requirements (operations, training, maintenance, and supply) with design development and delivery of new weapon platforms. Upon delivery, a new ship or aircraft must be affordably supported by the shore establishment, including maintenance and repair, utilities, shore services, coordination and supply, ordnance handling, and systems diagnostic capabilities.

NAVFAC IPS endeavors to project new platformrelated shore-based infrastructure requirements and develop advanced planning funding requirements on behalf of Product Sponsors and in alignment with the System Command acquisition initiatives. Advanced planning and infrastructure capabilities must be in place sufficiently before the delivery of new weapons platforms to ensure promised operational effectiveness, readiness, and lethality. To achieve this, Product Sponsors need support from IPS to secure planning funding early in a new platform's development cycle. In turn, Product Sponsors need help, coordination, and information from the Navy Acquisition Resource Sponsors.

Planning must be timed to integrate with the Department of Defense's (DoD) five-year Future Years Defense Program (FYDP), Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), and Navy's (DoN) multiyear Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution (PPBE) requirement development program, Program Objective Memorandum (POM) and budget development cycle. Shore-based infrastructure requirements run the risk of, mainly, the PPBE Materiel Solutions Analysis (MSA) Phase of the annual Program Objective not being included in the POM or the resulting budget because of deprioritization due to weak stakeholder advocacy or delayed or insufficient requirements development planning.