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Oct28

Success Factors and Key Tenets of Performance Based Product Support Strategies

Although it’s been available for awhile, wanted to take a moment to encourage regular readers of this blog to (re-)read a most interesting and quite comprehensive November, 2008 article entitled, "A Rose by Any Other Name: The Tenets of PBL ...[Read More]
Published: Oct-28-11 | 0 Comments

Oct27

New Web-Enabled DoD Logistics Assessment (LA) Guidebook and PSM Conference Reminder

Similar to the recently deployed DoD Product Support Manager (PSM) Guidebook and the DoD Product Support Business Case Analysis (BCA) Guidebook, we are pleased to announce that in addition to the downloadable PDF version, a new web-enabled, exte ...[Read More]
Published: Oct-27-11 | 0 Comments

Oct27

DAU Selected as Winner of Silver Vanguard Award by Chief Learning Officer (CLO) Magazine

DAU was recently selected as the winner of the prestegious Silver Vanguard Award, a Chief Learning Officer (CLO) magazine Learning in Practice Award, presented in recognition of the university's 2011 Learning Technologies Roadmap.    The award ...[Read More]
Published: Oct-27-11 | 0 Comments

Oct21

Ten Things Great Program Managers Know About Product Support

Wanted to make you aware that the November-December issue of Defense AT&L Magazine is now available for your reading pleasure. This latest edition of the magazine contains a range of interesting articles on a wide variety of defense acquis ...[Read More]
Published: Oct-21-11 | 1 Comment

Oct20

Continuous Learning

Back in April 2010, I posted a blog entitled “What's the Difference Between a Continuing Education Unit (CEU) and a Continuous Learning Point (CLP)?”   As a public service, wanted to share additional information about defense acquisition workfo ...[Read More]
Published: Oct-20-11 | 0 Comments

Oct18

SMART Metrics

Metrics are a foundational part of our life cycle logistics business, particularly as we craft and implement product support strategies that deliver affordable readiness to our Warfighter customers. A few key points about metrics taken from severa ...[Read More]
Published: Oct-18-11 | 0 Comments

Oct14

DoD Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) Manual

In case you had not already seen it, on June 30, 2011, the USD(AT&L) issued the updated DoD Manual 4151.22-M “Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)”. I highly encourage you to read this new manual. In conjunction with DoD Instruction 4151 ...[Read More]
Published: Oct-14-11 | 0 Comments

Oct12

Life Cycle Sustainment Plan (LCSP) Guidance, References and Training

In addition to the new Life Cycle Sustainment Plan (LCSP) Outline mandated in the 14 Sep 11 PDUSD(AT&L) policy memorandum "Document Streamlining - Life-Cycle Sustainment Plan (LCSP)”, DAU has updated the following related key LCSP refer ...[Read More]
Published: Oct-12-11 | 0 Comments

Oct07

Acting USD(AT&L) Priorities

With the appointment of The Honorable Ashton B. Carter to the position of Deputy Secretary of Defense, Mr Frank Kendall will be serving as Acting Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology and Logistics). I call your attention to this m ...[Read More]
Published: Oct-07-11 | 0 Comments

Oct06

New Life Cycle Logistics Training Modules and ACQuipedia Articles

DAU is pleased to announce the deployment of five new web-based continuous learning (CL) modules, bringing the total number of life cycle logistics modules available to the defense acquistion workforce to 40. The five new modules are:   ·       ...[Read More]
Published: Oct-06-11 | 0 Comments

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