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Feb26

New Space Acquisition Community of Practice (CoP)!

Great news – DAU recently launched a new Space Acquisition Community of Practice (Space CoP) at https://acc.dau.mil/space. Encourage you to check it out, and if you happen to be in the Space community, encourage you to join and participate. You wi ...[Read More]
Published: Feb-26-10 | 0 Comments

Feb23

Life Cycle Logistics & Product Support Conferences

There are a variety of conferences of interest to the Life Cycle Logistics community coming up in the next few months. If funding, interest, or availability permit, might want to consider attending one or more of these. This list is by no means ...[Read More]
Published: Feb-23-10 | 0 Comments

Feb19

The Future of Product Support

Encourage you to check out the March-April 2010 edition of the Defense AT&L Magazine for an excellent new article entitled "The Future of Product Support."   In it, the author pulls no punches, stating, "acquisition processes ...[Read More]
Published: Feb-19-10 | 0 Comments

Feb17

A Few Thoughts on Success

One of the fun aspects of a blog like this is the opportunity to muse about a wide range of topics. Today, rather than focus on things like policies, processes, tools, or training, I’ve been thinking about success. What is success? Or perhaps a ...[Read More]
Published: Feb-17-10 | 0 Comments

Feb12

DoD Product Support Assessment Article

I commend for your reading an article available on the “Second Line of Defense” website entitled “Randy Fowler on DoD’s New Logistics and Sustainment Challenges: Reshaping the Government-Industrial Relationship for Logistics Support and Sustainmen ...[Read More]
Published: Feb-12-10 | 0 Comments

Feb10

Coming Soon...Two New Life Cycle Logistics Courses

Two new Life Cycle Logistics courses are coming your way soon! The first, LOG 103 Reliability, Availability and Maintainability (RAM) is slated to deploy by April. LOG 103, a self-paced web-based distance learning course, will replace the existi ...[Read More]
Published: Feb-10-10 | 0 Comments

Feb04

Back to Basics: A Critical Fourth Element of Acquisition Success

Acquisition professionals have been taught since time immemorial the importance of meeting cost, schedule and performance requirements in order to deliver a successful acquisition program.  It’s arguably a foundational tenet of this acquisition ...[Read More]
Published: Feb-04-10 | 5 Comments

Feb02

Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) 2010 Report

The  2010 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) report was released yesterday and is available both at the DoD QDR site and on the DAU Logistics Community of Practice QDR site. We also maintain historical copies of previous QDR reports dating back to ...[Read More]
Published: Feb-02-10 | 0 Comments