Marine Corps Equipment Readiness Information Tool (MERIT)

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Marine Corps Equipment Readiness Information Tool
(MERIT)

• January 2005

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Accolades

• 2005 Excellence.Gov Federal CIO Award Winner
• 2004 DoD CIO Award Winner
• 2004 DoN E-Gov Award Winner
• 2004 Association for Enterprise Integration
  (AFEI) excellence in Integration (top award)
  winner in the government category
• 2003 AFEI (Honorable Mention)
• CMC Ltr of Appreciation (August 2004)

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What does MERIT do ?

• Provides a Single Watch for USMC Ground Readiness
• Displays Daily Readiness (MARES, SASSY, MIMMS)
• GUI or Tabular views (tabular less bandwidth
  intensive)
• Provides customized information on current and
  historical readiness
• Visibility from top level Marine Corps readiness
  posture to the supply/maintenance status of a
  part.
• - e.g., deployed MEF tab with OIF readiness
  posture drill-down
• Puts sunshine on the problems

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Project Objectives (Achieved)

• Provide visibility of equipment-on-hand, supply,
  and material readiness to commanders,
  logisticians, operators, and the war fighter.
• Dramatically reduce the man-hours required to
  evaluate readiness and turn those man hours to
  actually fixing readiness problems.
• Improve response time of logistics products to
  the field
• Integrates logistics data (Provides multi-systems
  visibility)
• Improve the quality of logistics data
• Reduce the cost of business process
  reengineering/system(s) modifications
• A Logistics, supply, maintenance reconciliation
  Tool
• Provide PMs with a Lifecycle Management
  Capability

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MERIT Functionality

• View Current and Historical Readiness for MCBul
  3000 TAMCNs at the USMC, MEF,MSC, and Unit level
  by S, R, and MR in GUI or Tabular Format.
• View Current and Historical Readiness for all 5-7
  Million USMC Items
• Drill Down to Detailed Supply and Maintenance
  Information by Weapons Systems and Organization
• Status of supply requisitions
• Status of Maintenance Activity
• Movement through Maintenance Process
• Create Individualized Portfolios by TAMCN to
  Track Changes in Readiness
• View of Excess Equipment
• View Control, Historical, and Shoot, Move
  Communicate Charts for Weapons Systems Analysis

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Functionality (Continued)

• Email Alerts Customized for Each User
• Readiness/News Ticker
• External Links (NIPRNET Only) DLA WebCats DLA
  MRO Tracker DAASC Inquiry(DoDAAC)
• SASSY / LM2 Auth/Allow Comparison
• Owning Unit Maintenance TAMCN Report
• Email Broadcast
• Tabular Sorting Feature
• Historical ERO view by TAMCN / Serial Number

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Logical Architecture
MERIT Application Linux./Apache JAVA/SQL
Future Data Sources
MERIT ODS Schema
Oracle 9iAS MERIT Data Repository
BCS3 AIMS (MPF) Depot Maintenance WOLF Contractor
Logistics Support (CLS)
SASSY
ATLASS II
MIMMS
Future Sources
SCS
LMIS
MARES
MCDSS
In-Stores
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Design architecture
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Technical Integration

• Fits perfectly into GCSS-MC notional architecture
• Can be loosely coupled with GCSS-MC
• Co-located, Net-centric, Virtual
• Only requirement is mapping to transactional
  system data (SDE, Data warehouse or transactional
  database)

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Objective Architecture

• Achieved!
• Centralized IT and web infrastructure
• High speed access from anywhere, under all
  conditions
• Protected and Secure
• Single Integrated database
• Scaleable
• Browser access
• Deployment of software to clients unnecessary
• Centrally managed and seamless maintenance

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Value of MERIT

• Can meet Marine Corps current future needs
• Logical information flow.
• Already paid for and developed just in case you
  dont find something better.
• Ability to do ad hoc queries only isnt good
  enough.
• One less thing for GCSS to worry about for
  requirements met by MERIT can be spent in other
  ways.
• Fits into shared data environment, DSS, and GCSS
  architecture concepts.
• There isnt an architecture that MERIT cant work
  with.
• DLA using it to support warfighter (OIF-II and
  beyond)
• A Force Multiplier now! Will be even more robust
  in a GCSS environment.

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Value of MERIT (Cont)

• Buy-In familiarity
• Logical flow of data into information/knowledge
• Can be the bridge between Legacy systems and
  GCSS-MC fielding (Makes transition to GCSS-MC
  easier)
• Display readiness in a familiar tool.
• Operating Forces Buy-in now!
• Ability to show new GCSS-MC terminology before
  fielded.
• Enterprise Wide Tailorable (MY) visibility-
  Marine Corps has for first time not going to
  give that up
• Gives GCSS-MC more flexibility in block one.
• Some Marine Corps business processes can be
  changed in MERIT and/or other decision support
  tools/middleware faster and cheaper than in
  transactional systems.

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Value of MERIT

• Customer Driven
• Operating Forces and HQMC (IL) endorsed
• Single Worldwide View
• Visualization of Large Data Sets (Two Ten )
• ID Systemic Problems (bottlenecks)
• Capitalizes on Existing data and processes
• MERIT Already linked to legacy data
• Trend analysis will require historical data,
  even in GCSS-MC environment, especially important
  for SysCom PMs.
• It Works NOW! Leverage its success!

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Coming in the Next Release

• Supply Chain Module
• Total Ownership Cost Module
• Total Life Cycle Management Initiative (TLCMI)
  module
• MPS drill-down into AIMS data
• Depot Maintenance Visibility/Integration
• Decision Support Capability (DSC)Module

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Where are we going?
Materiel Readiness
Transition Data Elements ERO/WON Parts
Trailer LM4 Remarks
Supply Chain Management
Identify MR relevant
Equipment Posture
Depot Level Maintenance
Determine impact
Functional Areas
Recommend changes
Equipment Type
MEF, MSC, Unit
Life Cycle
SECREP
Monitor impact on MR
Unit Posture
Requirements
Consumables
Planning
Backorders
Functional Areas
Production
Equipment Type
MCCDC
In Stores
CLS
Current Snapshot
HQMC(MRA)
Program Status
Historical Trends
TECOM
Engineering Specs
Policy
MARFOR
Funding
ONR
External
MR reporting policy
Requirement
Surplus Disposal