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Jan29

Outcome-Based Life Cycle Management Perspective

I commend for your reading an intriguing article in the new January 2010 edition of Defense Acquisition Review Journal (ARJ) Magazine. Entitled “Achieving Outcomes-Based Life Cycle Management,” this article offers a comprehensive assessment abou ...[Read More]
Published: Jan-29-10 | 1 Comment | 0 Links to this post

Jan28

Implementation of DoD Weapon System Acquisition Reform: Product Support Assessment (PSA) Recommendations

As most of you recall, the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (AT&L), Dr Carter, signed out the DoD Weapon System Acquisition Reform (WSAR): Product Support Assessment (PSA) report in November 2009. If you h ...[Read More]
Published: Jan-28-10 | 1 Comment | 0 Links to this post

Jan25

Counterfeit Electronic Parts

I commend for your reading an excellent report entitled “Defense Industrial Base Assessment: Counterfeit Electronics” recently issued by the US Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security (Office of Technology Evaluation) in collabora ...[Read More]
Published: Jan-25-10 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Jan22

A New Life Cycle Logistics Resource

For some months now, DAU and the US Army Materiel Command Logistics Support Activity (LOGSA) have been actively working to web-enable the Army’s comprehensive Life Cycle Logistics wall-chart. Built upon the conceptual framework of the DoD Integr ...[Read More]
Published: Jan-22-10 | 1 Comment | 0 Links to this post

Jan21

Life Cycle Logistics Career Field Certification Requirements

As DoD embraces a “fully qualified” approach to Defense Acquisition Workforce (DAW) professional development, it remains incumbent upon every member of DAW to be cognizant of the DoD Acquisition, Technology & Logistics (AT&L) training, e ...[Read More]
Published: Jan-21-10 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Jan14

A Few More Thoughts on Key Life Cycle Logistics Objectives

I’ve shared with you in an earlier blog post (dated December 29, 2009) that a primary responsibility of the Life Cycle Logistician is to translate warfighter performance requirements into tailored product support spanning a system’s entire life cy ...[Read More]
Published: Jan-14-10 | 1 Comment | 0 Links to this post

Jan11

World-Class Life Cycle Logistics Practitioners

In last Friday’s blog I talked about the Life Cycle Logistics workforce. Today, I’d like to turn briefly to our DAU Life Cycle Logistics faculty. For those of you who have taken our classes at one of our five major regional campuses (Ft Belvoir, H ...[Read More]
Published: Jan-11-10 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Jan08

Connecting with the DoD Life Cycle Logistics Workforce

The first full week of 2010 was a good one; it afforded me the opportunity to get out of the office and travel to our DAU South Region to team-teach a LOG 236 class in Huntsville. Why do I regard this as a good thing? As we on the DAU headquarte ...[Read More]
Published: Jan-08-10 | 1 Comment | 0 Links to this post

Jan05

Logistics Named One of the 50 Best Careers of 2010!

For your reading pleasure, encourage you to take a look at a recent U.S. News and World Report article entitled “Logistics: As one of the 50 best careers of 2010, this should have strong growth over the next decade.” Granted the focus of the artic ...[Read More]
Published: Jan-05-10 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post