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Nov26

DAU Wins Award as Best Corporate University in North America

Corporate University Best-in-Class (CUBIC) recently honored DAU with two separate and prestigious awards. DAU was recognized earlier this month as the Best Corporate University in North America, beating out other well-known public- and private-s ...[Read More]
Published: Nov-26-14 | 0 Comments

Nov25

Leaders

Wanted to share some powerful words spoken from the dais at last week's 2014 DoD Maintenance Symposium on the subject of leaders by Mr. John Johns, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Maintenance Policy and Programs. They are re-posted her ...[Read More]
Published: Nov-25-14 | 0 Comments

Nov24

New SAE EIA-649-1 "Configuration Management Requirements For Defense Contracts" Published

The Defense Standardization Council Configuration Management Standards Working Group (DSC CMSWG) committee announced late last week that the long-anticipated SAE EIA-649-1 Configuration Management Requirements For Defense Contracts has officiall ...[Read More]
Published: Nov-24-14 | 2 Comments

Nov21

Professional Development Opportunity - 31st Annual NDIA National Logistics Forum

The National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) recently announced that their 31st Annual National Logistics Forum is scheduled for March 16-18, 2015 and will be held at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, ...[Read More]
Published: Nov-21-14 | 0 Comments

Nov20

Understanding Industry and Business Acumen

As most regular readers of this blog are no doubt aware, ACQ 315 Understanding Industry (Business Acumen) classroom course is one of the “choose one of four” training course options as part of the life cycle logistics DAWIA Level III certificati ...[Read More]
Published: Nov-20-14 | 0 Comments

Nov19

Leadership and Management Training Opportunities

In addition to the 52 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: Nov-19-14 | 0 Comments

Nov12

November-December Edition of Defense AT&L Magazine Now Available

The November-December 2014 edition of the Defense AT&L Magazine is now available. It contains a series of interesting articles on relevant acquisition, management and leadership  topics, including several in particular I’d encourage life cyc ...[Read More]
Published: Nov-12-14 | 0 Comments

Nov10

Veterans Day 2014

Several years ago I shared a few personal Veterans Day perspectives that new readers of this blog may find interesting. I, like each of you, was -- and continue to be -- profoundly grateful for the dedicated service, commitment, loyalty, sacrifi ...[Read More]
Published: Nov-10-14 | 0 Comments

Nov04

Questions Every Product Support Manager (PSM) Should be Prepared to Answer

Assume for a moment you are the Product Support Manager of a major weapon system, and you have just been advised that a new Program Manager (PM) is inbound to your program. Time to take stock of things and begin to prepare a programmatic overview ...[Read More]
Published: Nov-04-14 | 1 Comment

Nov03

Logistics Professional Development Resources and Recommended Reading List

As part of our ongoing effort to support and facilitate the professional development of the DoD Life Cycle Logistics and Product Support Manager (PSM) workforce, wanted to remind you of two important resources available for your use.   The fir ...[Read More]
Published: Nov-03-14 | 0 Comments