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Dec29

Performance Based Life Cycle Product Support in Action

Like many of you, I took a few days off over the holidays to relax and catch up on some long-deferred projects around the house. Yet even away from the office, I was still reminded of importance of the principles and best practices of Life Cycle ...[Read More]
Published: Dec-29-10 | 1 Comment | 0 Links to this post

Dec22

Two Life Cycle Logistics Course Pilots Available for Student Registration

DAU is pleased to announce that ongoing content revisions for two of our Life Cycle Logistics courses are almost complete, and we  are now accepting registrations from interested defense acquisition workforce members and authorized industry person ...[Read More]
Published: Dec-22-10 | 1 Comment | 0 Links to this post

Dec22

Maximum Utilization of Government-Owned Inventory in Performance-Based Logistics (PBL) Arrangements

The Assistant Secretary of Defense for Logistics & Materiel Readiness (L&MR) Principal Deputy issued a new policy memorandum on December 20, 2010 entitled “Maximum Utilization of Government-Owned Inventory in Performance-Based Logistic ...[Read More]
Published: Dec-22-10 | 1 Comment | 0 Links to this post

Dec17

Spurring Product Support Dialog

Long-time readers know that I like to bring articles relating to our business to your attention on the pages of this blog. You also recognize that neither I personally, nor DAU institutionally,  necessarily endorse the positions or conclusions art ...[Read More]
Published: Dec-17-10 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Dec10

End of the Year Data Points

Was perusing some end-of-the-fiscal-year metrics data, and wanted to share some interesting “factoids” with you.  In fiscal year 2010, the Defense Acquisition University (DAU):   ·         Delivered more than 12.3 million total hours of learni ...[Read More]
Published: Dec-10-10 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Dec08

DAU Welcomes Ms. Katrina McFarland as its New President

On December 6, the Honorable Frank Kendall, PDUSD(AT&L), announced the selection of Ms. Katrina McFarland as the new President of the Defense Acquisition University. According to Dr Kendall, “she comes with outstanding credentials and a weal ...[Read More]
Published: Dec-08-10 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Dec03

Change to LOG 236 Prerequisites

Since becoming a Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA) Level II Life Cycle Logistics career field certification course on October 1, 2010, the LOG 206 Intermediate Systems Sustainment Management web-based training course has be ...[Read More]
Published: Dec-03-10 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Dec03

More Comments Please

My intent as the author of this blog is first and foremost to provide useful, timely, relevant, and interesting information and perspectives to our life cycle logistics workforce. To this end, I believe we thusfar we have been successful. In fac ...[Read More]
Published: Dec-03-10 | 3 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Dec01

Getting Requirements Right - Right From the Beginning

The Principal Deputy to the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics (USD)AT&L issued a memo on November 19, 2010 entitled "Improving Department of Defense Acquisition Requirements Development" that I ...[Read More]
Published: Dec-01-10 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post