In order to field new capabilities rapidly, USAF may have to resort to throwing assets away rather than trying to sustain them for long periods of time.
Advanced Concept Technology Demonstrators, which yielded capabilities like the Predator and Global Hawk remotely piloted aircraft, were fielded so quickly that their logistics trains were built almost as an afterthought, causing persistent parts and support problems.
“There will always be challenges with trying to establish a supply chain that’s going to be available for 20-30 years,” she said. “But when I talk about a rapid prototyping approach, maybe when I field it, I field it in small numbers and I don’t keep it as long.” That’s “one way to avoid this supply chain” problem.
Pawlikowski added that few people have the same cell phone they owned in 2002; typically discarding a phone when the new operating system won’t work with it. “So I think we have to think about, when we look at that supply chain piece … how long do we really plan to keep these things?” She asserted that USAF may have to “go to more of a model that accepts that we’re going to throw things away after they’re not supportable. And that will be okay, because we’ve got the next thing coming out.”
http://www.airforcemag.com/Features/Pages/2018/March%202018/Pawlikowski-Says-Throwaway-Tech-May-Help-Speed-Fielding-May-Affect-OA-X.aspx
It's kind of what Russia does, make a new design, field small numbers… make next new design, field small numbers… and so on. The logic is that nuclear wars dont last long enough for mass production to matter, but if a war does break out any of the designs can be standardized and mass produced in time for a response.