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May29

DoD Product Support Manager (PSM) Workshop Postponed

Due to the current fiscal environment and certain travel constraints, the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Materiel Readiness) has decided to postpone the third annual DoD Product Support Manager (PSM) Workshop.   This PSM ...[Read More]
Published: May-29-13 | 0 Comments

May23

Best Practices from the Experts

A Defense Systems Management College (DSMC) colleague shared some particularly invaluable insights related to Acquisition Strategy development in a blog post entitled “Acquisition Strategy – Best Practices from Milestone Decision Authorities ( ...[Read More]
Published: May-23-13 | 0 Comments

May21

Three New ACQuipedia Articles Now Available

Three new articles of interest to the program management, life cycle logistics and product support manager (PSM) communities have been posted to the ACQuipedia website. These three new articles are entitled:   •       Life Cycle Management (L ...[Read More]
Published: May-21-13 | 0 Comments

May20

Proposed Rule for Detection and Avoidance of Counterfeit Electronic Parts

Given increased emphasis on the issue of counterfeit parts, including the April 26, 2013 issuance of the new DoD Instruction 4140.67 DoD Counterfeit Prevention Policy,  wanted to call your attention to a May 16, 2013 announcement in the Federal ...[Read More]
Published: May-20-13 | 0 Comments

May17

Corrosion Prevention and Control GAO Report

If you had not already seen it, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a new report yesterday entitled GAO-13-379 Defense Management: Additional Information Needed to Improve Military Departments' Strategies for Corrosion Prevention a ...[Read More]
Published: May-17-13 | 0 Comments

May15

Four New Technical Data Management Learning Assets

In a March blog post entitled “Technical Data Management”, I shared with you some of the new interdisciplinary learning assets DAU was in the process of developing related to this important topic. At that time CLE 068 Intellectual Property and C ...[Read More]
Published: May-15-13 | 0 Comments

May14

New DoD Counterfeit Prevention Policy Now Available

Last September, I shared a series of important references on the issue of counterfeit parts in a blog post entitled “Counterfeit Parts Awareness.”  As a follow-up, wanted to let regular readers of this blog know -- in case you were not already a ...[Read More]
Published: May-14-13 | 0 Comments

May13

Five Opportunities to Excel - DoD Acquisition, PSM & PBL Awards

On May 6, 2013, the USD (AT&L) issued a memorandum entitled “Call for Nominations - 2013 Defense Acquisition Workforce Individual Achievement Award and Workforce Development Award.”  The memo announces these two important acquisition awards, ...[Read More]
Published: May-13-13 | 1 Comment

May10

Back to Basics (Product Support Edition)

Just how do you define the term “product support?” How about “product support manager” (PSM)? Or perhaps “product support arrangement” (PSA)? What about “product support integrator” (PSI or “product support provider” (PSP)? These terms are found ...[Read More]
Published: May-10-13 | 0 Comments

May09

New Defense Acquisition Guidebook (DAG) Systems Engineering Chapter 4 Now Available

As our DAU systems engineering performance learning director shared in his blog post earlier today, on May 8, 2013, the DoD released the major update to the Defense Acquisition Guidebook (DAG) Chapter 4, Systems Engineering.  The DAG Chapter 4 i ...[Read More]
Published: May-09-13 | 0 Comments

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