Modern technologies for military sustainment
PHM Technology contributed to the NATO SG-320 WP2 research effort, including OSINT return of experience, surveys and expert interviews. The findings point to a clear operational reality: readiness depends on connected lifecycle data, earlier RAMS insight and proactive sustainment.
Key findings from the research
The WP2 study captured return of experience across NATO relevant sustainment challenges. Across literature, survey and interviews, a consistent message emerged: technology can improve reliability and maintainability, but only when data, governance, culture and engineering processes are connected.
The Sustainment Gap
Advanced technologies exist, but their value is blocked by fragmented lifecycle data, weak feedback loops and sustainment being treated as an afterthought.
Data is now a Readiness issue
Operational feedback, technical data rights and reusable lifecycle knowledge are essential to enable digital twins, analytics and proactive maintenance.
Availability must be engineered
Readiness cannot be solved by spending alone. Reliability, maintainability, supply-chain risk and operational context need to be modelled earlier.
Legacy assets need digital support
NATO members must extend the life of existing platforms. Digital twins can help capture paper-based, historical and operational knowledge.
Supply constraints drive risk
Parts availability, obsolescence, single source suppliers and long lead times directly affect mission capability and maintenance planning.
Culture and skills matter
Modern sustainment requires trained people, defined engineering processes and a shift from reactive firefighting to lifecycle performance management.
Where MADE contributes value
MADE supports the practical transition from disconnected sustainment activity to a connected Digital Risk Twin approach, helping organisations understand how design, failure behaviour, maintenance, logistics and operational context affect readiness.
Connected lifecycle knowledge
Bring design, RAMS and sustainment knowledge together to reduce dependence on static documents, spreadsheets and isolated point solutions.
Earlier RAMS insight
Model reliability, maintainability, failure propagation and operational impact earlier, before issues become expensive sustainment problems.
Digital Risk Twins
Create a model-based representation of system risk that can support decision making across design, upgrade, maintenance and sustainment planning.
Shift from reactive to proactive
Use structured engineering knowledge to support better decisions on readiness, maintenance strategies, availability and lifecycle risk.
Download the research highlights report
This report captures key findings from the WP2 return of experience workstream, including open-source research, expert survey results and structured interviews. It highlights the major challenges affecting military sustainment and the opportunity for modern digital technologies to improve readiness.
- Understand the cross-cutting sustainment challenges affecting land, sea and air platforms.
- Explore the role of Digital Twins, lifecycle data and modern analytics in improving readiness.
- See why proactive sustainment requires more than technology — it requires data, process, skills and governance.
The readiness challenge is measurable
The report highlights sustainment pressure across multiple domains, with availability and mission-capable performance often falling short despite significant investment.
Better readiness starts with better lifecycle decisions.
MADE helps engineering, RAMS and sustainment teams shift from static documents and reactive maintenance toward connected Digital Risk Twins and proactive lifecycle performance.
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