Life-cycle management and product support

The Secretary of Defense shall ensure that each covered system is supported by a performance-based life-cycle sustainment plan— A product support manager shall develop, update, and implement a life-cycle sustainment plan for each covered system for which the product support manager is responsible. Such plan shall include the following: A comprehensive product support strategy that addresses each Integrated Product Support Element in a manner— A life-cycle cost estimate for the covered system that— After consideration of the views received by the milestone decision authority from appropriate materiel, logistics, or fleet representatives, a plan to transition the covered system from production to initial fielding that addresses specific products or services required for successful initial fielding of the covered system, including— In developing each life-cycle sustainment plan required by this section, the product support manager shall— seek to comply with— In this chapter: The term “covered system” means— The term “critical readiness items of supply” means— The term “Integrated Product Support Elements” means, with respect to a covered system— The term “product support arrangement”— includes arrangements for any of the following: