Feb 2013Lesson 310 Facilities EngineeringIntroductionKey Element
Feb 2013
Lesson 3.10: Facilities Engineering
Introduction
Key Element of the DOD Acquisition Process
Facilities Engineering is a key element of the DOD acquisition process. This discipline encompasses a variety of functions that focus on the life cycle design, construction, and maintenance of military installations, facilities, civil works projects, airfields, roadways, and ocean facilities.
Providing and Maintaining Critical Infrastructure
Facilities Engineering provides and maintains the critical infrastructure needed for both domestic and worldwide operations.
This infrastructure includes system-specific facilities and the full range of other facilities needed to develop, test, produce, deploy, operate, and support the nation's military capabilities.
Interface with DOD Systems Acquisition
As we learned in Lesson 3, Introduction to the Defense Acquisitions Management System,
DODI 5000.02 establishes a simplified process for managing all acquisition programs.
This process, referred to as the Defense Acquisition Management System, is a continuum of activities that represents or describes defense acquisition programs.
A Multidisciplinary Acquisition Process
Facilities Engineering is itself a multidisciplinary acquisition process
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that involves all facets of life cycle management from planning through disposal. Facilities Engineering has always been closely tied to the
"traditional" weapons systems process and has both direct and indirect effects on weapon system cost.
Accordingly, Facilities Engineering must be addressed from the start in both the force deployment planning and weapon systems development processes.
Infrastructure Support
Every assigned mission or weapon system requires facilities infrastructure support either directly or indirectly. This support must be timely and suitable if the military mission is to maximize its effectiveness.
Facilities provide the necessary shelter and work spaces to support the assigned mission or weapon system.
Lesson 3.10: Facilities Engineering
Introduction
Key Element of the DOD Acquisition Process
Facilities Engineering is a key element of the DOD acquisition process. This discipline encompasses a variety of functions that focus on the life cycle design, construction, and maintenance of military installations, facilities, civil works projects, airfields, roadways, and ocean facilities.
Providing and Maintaining Critical Infrastructure
Facilities Engineering provides and maintains the critical infrastructure needed for both domestic and worldwide operations.
This infrastructure includes system-specific facilities and the full range of other facilities needed to develop, test, produce, deploy, operate, and support the nation's military capabilities.
Interface with DOD Systems Acquisition
As we learned in Lesson 3, Introduction to the Defense Acquisitions Management System,
DODI 5000.02 establishes a simplified process for managing all acquisition programs.
This process, referred to as the Defense Acquisition Management System, is a continuum of activities that represents or describes defense acquisition programs.
A Multidisciplinary Acquisition Process
Facilities Engineering is itself a multidisciplinary acquisition process
1
Feb 2013
that involves all facets of life cycle management from planning through disposal. Facilities Engineering has always been closely tied to the
"traditional" weapons systems process and has both direct and indirect effects on weapon system cost.
Accordingly, Facilities Engineering must be addressed from the start in both the force deployment planning and weapon systems development processes.
Infrastructure Support
Every assigned mission or weapon system requires facilities infrastructure support either directly or indirectly. This support must be timely and suitable if the military mission is to maximize its effectiveness.
Facilities provide the necessary shelter and work spaces to support the assigned mission or weapon system.