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Mar28

New 'Designing for Transportability' Training Now Available

DAU is pleased to announce the deployment of our 54th Life Cycle Logistics continuous learning module entitled CLL 045 Designing for Transportability. Collaboratively developed with Military Surface Deployment & Distribution Command (SDDC) T ...[Read More]
Published: Mar-28-14 | 0 Comments

Mar27

Call for Nominations for 10th Annual Secretary of Defense Performance Based Logistics (PBL) Award

DoD has announced the 10th Annual Secretary of Defense Performance-Based Logistics Awards in a March 26, 2014 Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics memo.   According to this memo, "Performance-Based Logistics ...[Read More]
Published: Mar-27-14 | 0 Comments

Mar21

Two Important New Air Force Logistics Resources

The Air Force has issued two important new resources of benefit to the life cycle logistics workforce, Product Support Managers (PSM), and other defense acquisition and sustainment workforce members involved in any facet of life cycle management ...[Read More]
Published: Mar-21-14 | 0 Comments

Mar20

Mitigating Risks of Counterfeit and Tainted Components

The March-April 2014 issue of CrossTalk Magazine, The Journal of Defense Software Engineering is now available. The theme of this most recent issue is a subject of importance to us all, namely “Mitigating Risks of Counterfeit and Tainted Compone ...[Read More]
Published: Mar-20-14 | 0 Comments

Mar19

Requirements for Product Support Managers (PSM) Serving in a Key Leadership Position (KLP)

Back in November in a blog post entitled “New USD(AT&L) "Key Leadership Positions and Qualification Criteria" Memo: What Does it Mean for Product Support Managers?”, I shared a few insights related to personnel assigned to Product ...[Read More]
Published: Mar-19-14 | 0 Comments

Mar17

Competition and O&S Cost as a Percentage of Life Cycle Cost - Two Rather Interesting Articles

If you had not already seen it, the January 2014 issue of the Defense Acquisition Research Journal is now available for your reading pleasure.  The theme, challenging conventional defense acquisition wisdom, makes for some interesting reading. T ...[Read More]
Published: Mar-17-14 | 0 Comments

Mar12

Life Cycle Logistics Across the Government

In case you ‘ve ever wondered how other federal agencies with an acquisition and product support mission approach what we in DoD call “Life Cycle Logistics”, check out the National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA)  Policy Directive ...[Read More]
Published: Mar-12-14 | 0 Comments

Mar10

Product Support Manager (PSM) Small Business Responsibilities

In a blog post last Friday entitled "Update to Product Support Manager (PSM) Statutory Responsibilities," I shared with you several key changes to 10 USC §2337 ( "Life-cycle management and product support") since the establishm ...[Read More]
Published: Mar-10-14 | 0 Comments

Mar07

Update to Product Support Manager (PSM) Statutory Responsibilities

 If you haven’t taken a look at 10 USC §2337 ( “Life-cycle management and product support”) recently, encourage you to do so. It contains statutory requirements for not only life cycle management and product support, but information related to P ...[Read More]
Published: Mar-07-14 | 0 Comments

Mar06

The 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) Report

Even though DoD Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) reports are not life cycle logistics or product support-specific documents, did you know that as a public service we’ve posted copies of QDR reports dating back to 1997 for use as references on th ...[Read More]
Published: Mar-06-14 | 0 Comments

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