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Feb15

Rapid Fielding

Regular readers of this blog may recall mention of an article in the March-April 2012 issue of Defense AT&L Magazine entitled “Hidden Value: The Underappreciated Role of Product Support in Rapid Acquisition.” For those of you who have an inter ...[Read More]
Published: Feb-15-13 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Feb11

GAO-13-194 Additional Information Needed to Meet DOD's Core Capability Reporting Requirements

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a new report today entitled “GAO-13-194 Additional Information Needed to Meet DOD's Core Capability Reporting Requirements.”   According to the report, “the Department of Defense's (DOD) 2012 B ...[Read More]
Published: Feb-11-13 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Feb08

Product Support Business Case Analyses (BCA)

Was doing some research the other day on the subject of product support business case analysis statute, policy and guidance. In the interest of knowledge sharing, wanted to pass on a few of the things I found. This compilation of key provisions ...[Read More]
Published: Feb-08-13 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Feb05

New DoD Directive 7045.14 "The Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) Process"

DoD issued a new DoD Directive 7045.14 The Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) Process on January 25, 2013. The new DoDD 7045.14, which is effective January 25, 2013:   ·         Reissues DoD Directive 7045.14 to update esta ...[Read More]
Published: Feb-05-13 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Feb01

New Performance Based Logistics Community of Practice (PBL CoP) Now Available!

On behalf of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Materiel Readiness, we are pleased to announce the launch of the Defense Acquisition University’s newest community of practice - the new Performance Based Logistics Community of Practice ...[Read More]
Published: Feb-01-13 | 3 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Jan30

Updated Better Buying Power (BBP) Gateway Website

As many of you may had noticed, until recently there had been two separate Better Buying Power (BBP) websites available, one on the DAU website at http://bbp.dau.mil/ and a separate BBP Gateway on the Defense Acquisition Portal (DAP) at https:// ...[Read More]
Published: Jan-30-13 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Jan29

New Army Regulation 700-142 Type Classification, Materiel Release, Fielding, and Transfer

Complementing their issuance last year of a new Army Regulation 700-127 Integrated Logistics Support and their US Army Product Support Manager (PSM) Concept of Operations  (CONOPS),the Army recently issued a new Army Regulation 700–142 Type Clas ...[Read More]
Published: Jan-29-13 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Jan25

Contracting for the Rest of Us

While life cycle logisticians don’t necessarily need to be a DAWIA certified contracting professional, at the same time good life cycle logisticians and product support managers also recognize that a working knowledge of contracting management i ...[Read More]
Published: Jan-25-13 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Jan23

LOG Blog RSS Feeds

If you’ve ever wondered how you can receive an automatic notification whenever a new logistics blog is posted, well wonder no longer. Simply sign up for an RSS feed.  What is an RSS feed you might ask? According to an excellent overview of RSS fee ...[Read More]
Published: Jan-23-13 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Jan18

Two Important Directive Type Memorandum (DTM) Updates

Change 3 to Directive-Type Memorandum (DTM) 10-015 – Requirements for Life Cycle Management and Product Support was issued January 16, 2013.   In addition, Change 2 to Directive-Type Memorandum (DTM) 11-003 – Reliability Analysis, Planning, Tr ...[Read More]
Published: Jan-18-13 | 1 Comment | 0 Links to this post

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