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An enterprise system engineering analysis of KC-46A maintenance program decision-making

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dc.contributor.authorBlond, Kyle E., author
dc.contributor.authorBradley, Thomas, advisor
dc.contributor.authorEnder, Tommer, committee member
dc.contributor.authorConrad, Steven, committee member
dc.contributor.authorHerber, Daniel, committee member
dc.contributor.authorOzbek, Mehmet, committee member
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-28T10:29:07Z
dc.date.available2023-08-28T10:29:07Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractThe KC-46A Pegasus is a United States Air Force (USAF) tanker, transport, and medical evacuation commercial derivative aircraft based on the Boeing 767. It is a top acquisition priority to modernize the USAF's refueling capabilities and is governed by a lifecycle sustainment strategy directed by USAF commercial variant policies aligned to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) policy. While this strategy provides robust mechanisms to manage the KC-46A's performance during its operations and support phase, opportunity exists for the KC-46A sustainment enterprise to better achieve reliability, availability, maintainability, and cost (RAM C) objectives through enhancing KC-46A maintenance program decision making in the context of USAF and FAA policies. This research characterizes the KC-46A maintenance program as an industrial enterprise system governing the maintenance, repair, overhaul, and modification of KC-46A aircraft. Upon this basis, enterprise systems engineering (ESE) characterizes the KC-46A maintenance program and identifies decision making improvement opportunities in its management. Canonical ESE viewpoints are tailored to abstract the organizations, processes, and information composing KC-46A maintenance program decision making and model how decision support methods can better achieve KC-46A sustainment enterprise objectives. A decision making framework then evaluates the RAM C performance of KC-46A maintenance tasks as part of the KC-46A Continued Analysis and Surveillance System (CASS) program. The framework's heuristics classify the compliance, effectiveness, and optimality of a maintenance task to prescribe KC-46A CASS responses. A rule based expert system applies this framework and serves as the knowledge engine for the KC-46A CASS decision support system referred to as the "Pegasus Fleet Management Tool." A focus group of KC-46A sustainment experts evaluated the framework and produced consensus that it advances the state of the art in KC-46A maintenance program decision making. A business case analysis roadmaps the programmatic and technical activities required to implement the framework in PFMT and improve KC-46A sustainment.
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dc.format.mediumdoctoral dissertations
dc.identifierBlond_colostate_0053A_17979.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10217/236970
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartof2020-
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dc.subjectenterprise systems engineering
dc.subjectreliability
dc.subjectUSAF
dc.subjectmaintenance
dc.subjectcommercial derivative aircraft
dc.subjectsustainment
dc.titleAn enterprise system engineering analysis of KC-46A maintenance program decision-making
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thesis.degree.disciplineSystems Engineering
thesis.degree.grantorColorado State University
thesis.degree.levelDoctoral
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Engineering (Eng.D.)

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