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Apr30

New Army Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability Policy

In case you hadn’t seen it already, the US Army issued important new policy on April 28th when it published Army Regulation 702-19 entitled Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability. In a nutshell, “this regulation prescribes Department of ...[Read More]
Published: Apr-30-15 | 0 Comments

Apr30

Hats off to a Longtime Teammate

Today is a somewhat bittersweet day for the DAU life cycle logistics team, as we bid farewell to one of our key faculty members, who for the purposes of this blog, I’ll simply refer to as Terry. As a mainstay of both our teaching and our curricu ...[Read More]
Published: Apr-30-15 | 1 Comment

Apr29

Efficiency and Effectiveness

In a blog post last week entitled “PBL Article in New May-June 2015 Issue of Defense AT&L Magazine”, I shared information about acquisition and product support-focused articles contained in the latest issue of the magazine. As the author of ...[Read More]
Published: Apr-29-15 | 0 Comments

Apr20

PBL Article in New May-June 2015 Issue of Defense AT&L Magazine

The May-June 2015 edition of the Defense AT&L Magazine is now available! In it you will find a series of articles on a wide-range of defense acquisition, technology and logistics topics, including a number of articles that life cycle logisti ...[Read More]
Published: Apr-20-15 | 0 Comments

Apr15

Weekly DAU "Lunch & Learn" Webinars

Did you know DAU offers weekly web-based “Lunch and Learn” webinar sessions? Upcoming sessions include:   ·         Apr 22 - DoD Instruction 5000.02 Update ·         Apr 29 - Identifying Required Technical Data and Software ·         May 6 - ...[Read More]
Published: Apr-15-15 | 1 Comment

Apr10

Better Buying Power 3.0

By now, most of you have received this morning’s Defense Acquisition Workforce Bulletin entitled “Implementation Directive for Better Buying Power  (BBP) 3.0”, which read:   "Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logi ...[Read More]
Published: Apr-10-15 | 1 Comment

Apr09

Achieving Dominant Capabilities through Technical Excellence and Innovation

Built upon the theme of “Achieving Dominant Capabilities through Technical Excellence and Innovation, the April 2015 edition of the Defense Acquisition Research Journal (ARJ) is now available. This particular edition also includes the 2015 winne ...[Read More]
Published: Apr-09-15 | 0 Comments

Apr08

Examples of What it Takes

The memo discussed in last Friday’s “Call for Nominations for the 11th Annual Secretary of Defense Performance Based Logistics (PBL) Award” blog post provided detailed information for submitting nominations for this prestigious Secretary of Defe ...[Read More]
Published: Apr-08-15 | 0 Comments

Apr06

Call for Nominations for Third Annual Secretary of Defense Product Support Manager (PSM) Award

Following on the heels of last Friday’s blog post “Call for Nominations for the 11th Annual Secretary of Defense Performance Based Logistics PBL Award” DoD Product Support Managers are being afforded another opportunity for well-deserved recogni ...[Read More]
Published: Apr-06-15 | 0 Comments

Apr03

Call for Nominations for the 11th Annual Secretary of Defense Performance Based Logistics (PBL) Award

DoD has issued a call for nominations for the 11th Annual Secretary of Defense Performance-Based Logistics Awards in an April 1, 2015 Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics memo.   According to this memo, "Per ...[Read More]
Published: Apr-03-15 | 0 Comments

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