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Feb29

DoD Budget Information

Late last month, I’d shared some potentially useful links to information related to the Fiscal Year 2013 (FY13) budget in a blog post entitled “DoD Budget Priorities.”   For further insights into the FY13 DoD budget proposal, wanted to let regul ...[Read More]
Published: Feb-29-12 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Feb28

Professionally Developing World-Class Product Support Managers

Partially to whet your appetite for more information, and partially to help get the word out to our workforce about the important topics being covered, over  the last several days, I’ve been highlighting some of the many outstanding articles in ...[Read More]
Published: Feb-28-12 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Feb27

Hidden Value: The Underappreciated Role of Product Support in Rapid Acquisition

For the last several days, I’ve been highlighting a series of the outstanding articles contained in the newly-released March-April 2012 Special Product Support-focused issue of Defense AT&L Magazine.   Today, if you’ll permit, I’d like to ...[Read More]
Published: Feb-27-12 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Feb24

Designing for Supportability: Driving Reliability and Maintainability In While Driving Costs Out

Last Thursday I shared a blog post with regular readers about the publication of the March-April 2012 Special Product Support-focused issue of Defense AT&L Magazine.   While every article conveyed important information that all defense ac ...[Read More]
Published: Feb-24-12 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Feb23

OK, We Bought This Thing, But Can We Afford to Operate and Sustain It?

Last Thursday I shared a blog post telling you about the publication of the March-April 2012 Special Product Support-focused issue of Defense AT&L Magazine.   As I subsequently mentioned in yesterday’s blog post, this is a tremendous oppo ...[Read More]
Published: Feb-23-12 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Feb22

Performance Based Logistics and Project Proof Point: A Study of PBL Effectiveness

Last Thursday I shared a blog post with regular readers about the publication of the March-April 2012 Special Product Support-focused issue of Defense AT&L Magazine.  As you can probably discern, this is an important opportunity to share the ...[Read More]
Published: Feb-22-12 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Feb21

Requirements Development

If you’ve ever had trouble writing a statement of work (SOW) or performance work statement (PWS), DAU has developed a tool that can assist you.  The Automated Requirements Roadmap Tool (ARRT) is available for download from the Service Acquisit ...[Read More]
Published: Feb-21-12 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Feb17

Special Product Support-Themed Issue of Defense AT&L Magazine Now Available!

It is my distinct pleasure to announce the publication of the special March-April product support-focused issue of Defense AT&L Magazine. This product support edition represents the culmination of many months of effort on the part of a wid ...[Read More]
Published: Feb-17-12 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Feb16

Better Serving the Needs of the Defense Acquisition Workforce

Continuing our never-ending quest to better serve the needs of the defense acqusition workforce, DAU is pleased to announce the deployment of twelve new Life Cycle Logistics ACQuipedia articles over past several weeks, bringing the total number ...[Read More]
Published: Feb-16-12 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Feb15

Life Cycle Logistics Resources and Tools

DAU is pleased to announce the launch of a completely revamped “Resources & Tools” site on the Life Cycle Logistics Community of Practice (LOG CoP). The LOG CoP has long served as an important repository for a wide-range of life cycle logi ...[Read More]
Published: Feb-15-12 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

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