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Jun28

Improving Services Acquisition

If you had not already seen it, encourage you to take a look at GAO-13-634 “Goals and Associated Metrics Needed to Assess Progress in Improving Service Acquisition" issued yesterday by the Government Accountability Office (GAO).   In the ...[Read More]
Published: Jun-28-13 | 0 Comments

Jun26

Seats Still Available for Remaining FY13 LOG 211 Supportability Analysis Course Offerings

Wanted to let you know there are three remaining scheduled FY13 offerings of the Defense Acquisition University's new LOG 211 Supportability Analysis classroom course, and – good news for prospective students –  seats are still available for all ...[Read More]
Published: Jun-26-13 | 1 Comment

Jun24

Service Independent Logistics Assessment (ILA) Policy and Guidance

As most life cycle logisticians and product support managers are aware, the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) issued a robust DoD-level Logistics Assessment (LA) Guidebook in 2011 in response to recommendations contained in the November 200 ...[Read More]
Published: Jun-24-13 | 0 Comments

Jun20

Suite of Technical Data Management Training Modules

We’re pleased to announce the full suite of interdisciplinary technical data management web-based continuous learning training modules have been deployed and are now available for student registration. Developed by a team of program management/a ...[Read More]
Published: Jun-20-13 | 0 Comments

Jun17

Value Engineering (VE)

Following up on last week’s blog discussion on the subject of "best value" in defense acquisition, today wanted to “widen the aperture” a bit to discuss Value Engineering (VE). According to the DoD Value Engineering Program website, “V ...[Read More]
Published: Jun-17-13 | 0 Comments

Jun13

Product Support Analysis Standard

Following on the heels of the recent issuance of the updated MIL-HDBK 502A Product Support Analysis handbook, if you had not already seen the adoption notice posted on the ASSIST website, the TechAmerica TA-STD-0017 “Product Support Analysis”, w ...[Read More]
Published: Jun-13-13 | 0 Comments

Jun11

Best Value

Best value is often discussed in the context of both defense acquisition and product support, but do you know what best value is? How do you define it? How do you know? What is your source? How would you recognize it when you see it? How are bes ...[Read More]
Published: Jun-11-13 | 0 Comments

Jun06

Acquisition Workforce Position Category Descriptions (PCD)

As several of you have noticed, the web link to access the Position Category Descriptions (PCD) for the various defense acquisition workforce career fields, including the Life Cycle Logistics community, changed recently when the new DAU homepage ...[Read More]
Published: Jun-06-13 | 0 Comments

Jun05

One-Stop Shopping for Key Product Support Definitions

In the interest of providing DoD Product Support Managers (PSM), Life Cycle Logisticians, Program Managers, and Systems Engineers with quick and easy access to the primary product support references, we offer a handy “one-stop shop” Product Su ...[Read More]
Published: Jun-05-13 | 0 Comments

Jun04

Three Hundred Product Support Analytical Tools and Counting

Regular readers may recall a blog post from early last summer entitled simply Product Support Analytical Tools in which I shared information about what was then the new DoD Product Support Analytical Tools Database; at the time, the new database con ...[Read More]
Published: Jun-04-13 | 5 Comments