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Jul25

Newly Updated Financial Management Platinum Card Now Available

A newly updated July 2013 version of the excellent DAU “Platinum Card” has just been released and is available under the Tools Section of the Financial Management Community of Practice (FM CoP).   To assist life cycle logisticians and Product ...[Read More]
Published: Jul-25-13 | 1 Comment

Jul25

An Excellent Training Opportunity for Defense Acquisition Workforce Members

In addition to the 51 Life Cycle Logistics web-based continuous learning modules currently available to support the professional development of Defense Acquisition Workforce members, federal government employees, and industry personnel directly ...[Read More]
Published: Jul-25-13 | 0 Comments

Jul23

Product Support Business Model (PSBM) and the Product Support Strategy Process Model

Last month I shared some insights and perspectives into the DoD Product Support Business Model (PSBM). To follow-up wanted to share a few additional learning assets we have available here at DAU to assist in better understanding this concept. ...[Read More]
Published: Jul-23-13 | 0 Comments

Jul22

U.S. Air Force Product Support Enterprise Vision

The U.S. Air Force has issued an important new document entitled “Air Force Product Support Enterprise Vision” dated July 2013. The vision is clear, concise, easily understood, and powerful: “Affordable warfighter readiness delivered through opt ...[Read More]
Published: Jul-22-13 | 10 Comments

Jul18

GAO Testimony on Strategic Sourcing

Strategic Sourcing is a topic of interest that comes up often, most recently in this blog a few months back in March 2013 in a blog post coincidentally entitled “Strategic Sourcing.”   In case you had not already seen it, the Government Accoun ...[Read More]
Published: Jul-18-13 | 0 Comments

Jul16

Product Improvement

If someone asked you, could you define the term “product improvement”? Would you even know where to look to find it? Did you know that for the Department of Defense, there is actually a definition in public law?   According to FY08 NDAA (Pub ...[Read More]
Published: Jul-16-13 | 1 Comment

Jul09

Life Cycle Logistics DAWIA Certification Requirements for Fiscal Year 2014

The Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Materiel Readiness, who also serves as the Life Cycle Logistics defense acquisition workforce community Functional Leader (FL), approved several changes late last year to the FY14 Life Cycle Logistic ...[Read More]
Published: Jul-09-13 | 7 Comments

Jul08

Acquisition Leadership Training Opportunities

For the more experienced members of the defense acquisition workforce, particularly senior life cycle logisticians and product support managers (PSM), if you have not availed yourself of the excellent 400-level training opportunities available f ...[Read More]
Published: Jul-08-13 | 0 Comments

Jul03

Product Support Arrangements (PSA)

Product Support Arrangements (PSA), as illustrated in the DoD Product Support Business Model (PSBM), are in my opinion, nothing short of a primary lynchpin of performance based product support strategy implementation within the Department of  De ...[Read More]
Published: Jul-03-13 | 0 Comments

Jul02

Back to PBL Basics

Given the emphasis DoD has placed on Performance Based Logistics (PBL) product support strategies and arrangements in the last year, including USD(AT&L) 14 May 12 “Endorsement of Next-Generation Performance-Based Logistics Strategies” and th ...[Read More]
Published: Jul-02-13 | 0 Comments