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Mar29

New Product Support Manager Policy in Updated Army Regulation 700-127

The Army has issued a newly updated Rapid Action Revision (RAR) version of Army Regulation 700-127 Integrated Logistics Support on March 26, 2012.  It contains three major changes of interest to Army life cycle logisticians and product support m ...[Read More]
Published: Mar-29-12 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Mar28

New Version of LOG 101 Acquisition Logistics Fundamentals Course

The DAU Life Cycle Logistics team is pleased to announce the launch of a newly updated version of our foundational  LOG 101 Acquisition Logistics Fundamentals course. All students registering for LOG 101 from this point forward will automaticall ...[Read More]
Published: Mar-28-12 | 2 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Mar26

New Life Cycle Sustainment Plan (LCSP) Job Aid

As many of you are already aware, DAU offers a range of training and opportunities related to the DoD requirement for a Life Cycle Sustainment Plan (LCSP), including:   ·         Life Cycle Sustainment Plan (LCSP) Outline ·         CLL 005 De ...[Read More]
Published: Mar-26-12 | 2 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Mar22

Depot Maintenance Learning Assets

Given the fact maintenance planning & management is one of the 12 Integrated Product Support (IPS) Elements, and the fact that  weapon system product support is inextricably linked to DoD life cycle management, the integrated nature of suc ...[Read More]
Published: Mar-22-12 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Mar21

ACQuipedia Online Acquisition Encyclopedia Reaches New Milestone

Last month, I shared with you in a blog post entitled “Better Serving the Needs of the Defense Acquisition Workforce” that DAU had  75 Life Cycle Logistics ACQuipedia articles available.  As of this morning, we've reached 79 articles and countin ...[Read More]
Published: Mar-21-12 | 2 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Mar21

Career Broadening

Good life cycle logisticians intuitively understand that we cannot successfully operate in a functionally “stove-piped” world. To be effective, we must understand the broader world in which we operate. Indeed, I would contend career broadening, in ...[Read More]
Published: Mar-21-12 | 1 Comment | 0 Links to this post

Mar15

Quote Worth Repeating

This outstanding May 2010 quote from the Director of the Cost Assessment & Program Evaluation (CAPE) speaks for itself:   “The cost of operating and maintaining a system over its useful life is driven primarily by system design and reliabili ...[Read More]
Published: Mar-15-12 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Mar14

DAU & LOGSA to Collaborate on Research and Curriculum Development

With one eye clearly on more efficiently and effectively supporting the needs of the defense acquisition workforce (DAW), on March 13, 2012 the Defense Acquisition University (DAU) and the United States Army Materiel Command Logistics Support ...[Read More]
Published: Mar-14-12 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Mar13

Two Particularly Timely Insights into DoD Product Support

Today marks the conclusion of a series of blog postings in recent weeks discussing the myriad of excellent and timely articles contained in the recently-published March-April 2012 Special Product Support-focused issue of Defense AT&L Magazine. ...[Read More]
Published: Mar-13-12 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Mar12

Affordable Logistics: Are We There Yet?

Regular blog readers know that I’ve been highlighting a wide-range of the articles contained in the recently-published March-April 2012 Special Product Support-focused issue of Defense AT&L Magazine. We’re in the home stretch, with just a fe ...[Read More]
Published: Mar-12-12 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

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