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May24

Memorial Day 2011

Return with me a few years to Veterans Day 1998. At the eleventh hour of eleventh day of eleventh month, eighty years after the signing of the armistice in a railway car in the Forêt de Compiègne marking the conclusion of the “War to End All War ...[Read More]
Published: May-24-11 | 8 Comments | 0 Links to this post

May20

New Department of the Navy Product Support Manager Implementation Guidance

The Department of the Navy issued its Product Support Manager (PSM) implementation guidance in an 18 May 2011 policy memorandum entitled “Product Support Manager (PSM) Implementation.” According to the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Acqui ...[Read More]
Published: May-20-11 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

May18

Workforce Development Award

Applications for the 2011 Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology & Logistics (USD(AT&L)) Workforce Development Award are now being accepted.   The USD(AT&L) Workforce Development Award has been established to help pro ...[Read More]
Published: May-18-11 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

May16

Effectiveness and Efficiency

Was considering how we Life Cycle Logisticians can better optimize the vitally important balance between efficiency and effectiveness while we simultaneously also seek to optimize readiness, availability, and life cycle costs. Let’s start with a ...[Read More]
Published: May-16-11 | 1 Comment | 0 Links to this post

May13

Updated Life Cycle Logistics Career Field DAWIA Certification Training Requirements

In the November 2009 “DoD Weapon System Acquisition Review: Product Support Assessment”, Dr Carter, the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (AT&L) reiterated the following strategic imperative to our community: ...[Read More]
Published: May-13-11 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

May12

Leadership, Innovation, Initiative, and Creative Solutions

Sir Winston Churchill is attributed as saying in a 1941 speech “Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never, in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense.”    Short, simp ...[Read More]
Published: May-12-11 | 2 Comments | 0 Links to this post

May10

New DoD Product Support Business Case Analysis (BCA) Guidebook

As I shared with you in my April 15, 2011 blog post, the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Logistics & Materiel Readiness (L&MR) issued a comprehensive new April 2011 DoD Product Support Business Case Analysis (BCA) Gui ...[Read More]
Published: May-10-11 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

May06

Improving Training -- and a New Student Information System

In October 2010, the Government Accountability Office issued a report entitled GAO-11-22 “DOD’s Training Program Demonstrates Many Attributes of Effectiveness, but Improvement Is Needed.” At the time I also blogged about the report in a November ...[Read More]
Published: May-06-11 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

May05

New DoD Demilitarization (DEMIL) Program Instruction Issued

A new DoD Instruction 4160.28 entitled “DoD Demilitarization (DEMIL) Program” was issued April 7, 2011. Related resources available from DAU include the Logistics Community of Practice (LOG CoP) Demil and Disposal site, as well as an ACQuipedia ar ...[Read More]
Published: May-05-11 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

May03

Seventh Annual Secretary of Defense Performance Based Logsitics (PBL) Awards

The Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (AT&L) has put out a call for nominations for the Seventh Annual Secretary of Defense Performance-Based Logistics Awards in a new 2 May 11 memo.  This AT&L memo prov ...[Read More]
Published: May-03-11 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

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