Defense In-Service Support

IFS offers software that can enable specific program support for assets in service, including land and sea assets, as well as communications systems and equipment. IFS Software Solutions can be deployed at the core of a systems integrator's offering to their military customer, or implemented directly by the military end user or performance-based logistics (PBL) provider.

• Affordable readiness – Precisely monitor asset availability rates and link policy changes to maintenance outcomes in order to achieve significant reductions in sustainment costs.
• Optimize performance – Effectively plan and schedule maintenance based on real-time mission and asset utilization data, resource constraints and parts availability, without incurring costs due to oversupply.
• Operational agility – Confidently react to unexpected events and changing mission profiles to reduce asset time-out-of-service and optimize operational readiness.
• Total asset visibility – Actively manage the logistics network with an integrated, holistic approach for the achievement of targeted performance improvements and improved decision-making.
• Deployed operations – Accurately identify assets, resources and required maintenance through in-theater visibility of operational, intermediate and depot maintenance and real-time total asset visibility (TAV) of globally deployed assets.

IFS offers management and manufacturing software to defense OEMs and equipment suppliers, with a full enterprise-wide product including finance and HR functionality, as well as manufacturing and lifecycle support capability.

• Complete product lifecycle management
• Mixed-mode manufacturing
• Project pegging
• Enterprise operational intelligence
• After sales and customer service
• Compliance and export control built-in

IFS offers software that enables defense enterprise organizations to operate efficiently. Whether they are trying to achieve departmental, facility or whole-force enterprise management, IFS products and solutions span HQ, logistics, fleet and asset management, asset readiness and operational intelligence and can be implemented by the government department themselves, private sector advisor or SI partner.

• Whole force logistics management
• Financial, performance and operational information for decision making
• Configuration management, MRO and logistics
• Facilities management
• Workforce management and scheduling

As part of the holistic suite of defense capabilities provided by IFS, our facility management solutions support the software needs of a wide range of defense facilities, including Shipyards, Operational Bases, Training Facilities, Air Fields and Maintenance Depots. Some examples of defense facilities supported by IFS include:

• Large-scale refit facilities for complex assets
• Operational military bases
• Service technicians operating within defense properties
• Training centres - asset and facilities sustainment

IFS Disconnected Operations is designed to provide military and defense organizations the ability to deploy, operate, protect, and safely return air assets and data anywhere in the world for as long as needed with any level of connectivity from disconnected hardware, such as laptops.

This defense aviation solution provides all maintenance capabilities required to retain mission effectiveness and compliance, enable technical records collection throughout missions and ensure data integrity and completeness upon base return. IFS Disconnected Operations delivers this through:

• Management of application and engineering data from aircraft and inventory assets from a central point to locations that are either disconnected, or can be disconnected at any time, from the central maintenance management system.
• Deployment of assets to any operating theaters with IFS Disconnected Operations while safeguarding network resilience, regardless of connectivity constraints.
• Enabling securely operating assets with isolated records, while still ensuring data integrity through incremental consolidations.
• Improved accuracy and data consistency but safeguarding against inaccurate and duplication of data by having only one active asset record. 
• Providing full compliance with airworthiness requirements for disconnected bases via a technical records repository for all outposts.