A successful LSA will define those support requirements that are ideal for the system design.
Logistic Support Analysis (LSA) guidelines and requirements were established by Department of Defense (DOD) Instruction 5000.2, Major System Acquisition Procedures, and DOD Directive 5000.39, Acquisition and Management of Integrated Logistic Support for Systems and Equipment, to create a single, uniform approach by the Military Services to improve supportability of military weapon systems through a disciplined approach to defining the required operational support other Integrated Logistic Support (ILS) objectives during the acquisition development phase.
[5] In 1986, the US Army began to transform the paper-intensive LSAR into a desktop application known as "Computer Aided Logistics Support" (CALS).
In 1991, the programs were combined and expanded to all services under the name Joint CALS (JCALS).
Due to the disappearance of MIL-STD-1388, two "civilian" initiatives appeared to replace the LSA process.