Elicitation of stakeholder insights to military platform current and future sustainment challenges

This paper describes the findings from a recent Defence stakeholder engagement that aimed to explore current and future issues for sustainment of military platforms that could benefit from innovations in advanced sensors or data analytics. The elicitation sought information from an initial questionnaire followed by a workshop, and engaged stakeholders across the defence sustainment enterprise in order to capture as wide a pool of perspectives as possible. The elicitation was facilitated to provide information and insights at the platform, fleet, and force levels of the sustainment enterprise of military platforms. The stakeholder engagement provided a unique insight to current sustainment challenges, and generated ideas that can be further explored as potential areas of benefit from research and applications including into advanced sensors and data analytics.