COMDTINST 5230.72A governs program management for sustaining Coast Guard Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, and Intelligence capabilities.
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It covers C5I investments, sustainment activities, capital planning, investment business cases, funding, and program management. It requires systems to be included in established investment business cases or standard investments and requires periodic reassessment of value, risk, and prioritization.
Applies to: All Coast Guard unit commanders, commanding officers, officers-in-charge, deputy/assistant commandants, and chiefs of headquarters staff elements must comply with the provisions of this Instruction.
Each is required to be included in one of the established Coast Guard C5I Investment Business Cases and Standard Investments in accordance with reference (h). (paragraph 4)
The C5I Business Cases and Standard Investments are refreshed as needed or at a minimum annually in accordance with reference (h) in order to reassess for value, risk, and prioritization. (paragraph 4)
Reference (h) further requires that Information Technology (IT) funding be managed and reported using the Technology Business Management (TBM) taxonomy. (paragraph 4)
Sustainment activities include preventive, corrective and/or adaptive maintenance; procurement; obsolescence management; disposal; records management and archival; and other activities performed in the Operations and Maintenance (O&M) and Disposition stages of the systems engineering life cycle, as depicted in Figure 1 and in alignment with reference (aa).
When this threshold is reached, the project or activity must be governed in accordance with references (b), (c), (h), (m), and (t), and follow Coast Guard PPBE and CPIC processes throughout the annual budget formulation and execution phases.