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Mar31

Performance Based Support as a Systems Engineering Oriented Process?

Interesting article entitled “Performance Based Support as a Systems Engineering-Oriented Process—The Path Forward” in the March 2010 edition of the Military Logistics Forum magazine.   In the article, the author suggests that “a major cause o ...[Read More]
Published: Mar-31-10 | 1 Comment

Mar24

Professional Development

For those of you in the Defense Acquisition Workforce (DAW), let me ask you a philosophical question:  Why do you take DAU training? Take a moment to think about this question and then chose all answers below that apply.   Because I was told ...[Read More]
Published: Mar-24-10 | 0 Comments

Mar23

LOG 103 Reliability, Availability & Maintainability (RAM) Course Now Available

As I shared with you last week, the new LOG 103 “Reliability, Availability and Maintainability (RAM)” course has deployed and is now available for student registration. LOG 103 is a self-paced web-based distance learning course, and replaces the ...[Read More]
Published: Mar-23-10 | 1 Comment

Mar17

Sustainment Outcome Metrics

As I’d shared with you back in a blog post last fall, you should be aware of the requirement for a mandatory Sustainment Key Performance Parameter (KPP), namely the Materiel Availability KPP, and two mandatory supporting Key System Attributes (K ...[Read More]
Published: Mar-17-10 | 2 Comments

Mar15

New LOG 206 “Intermediate Systems Sustainment Management” Course Now Available

I previously shared with you in a Feb 10 Blog post that DAU was preparing to deploy two new Life Cycle Logistics courses.     We are pleased to announce that the new LOG 206 “Intermediate Systems Sustainment Management” course is now available! ...[Read More]
Published: Mar-15-10 | 1 Comment

Mar12

Ask A Professor

Many longtime members of the Life Cycle Logistics workforce are well aware that, among the vast array of classroom and web-based courseware, mission assistance capabilities, and knowledge sharing assets, DAU offers a rather unique resource to assi ...[Read More]
Published: Mar-12-10 | 3 Comments

Mar03

Latest on Item Unique Identification (IUID)

The recently conducted (22-24 Feb) IUID Forum in San Antonio, Texas highlighted some of the recent successes of implementing Item Unique  Identification (IUID) throughout the services.  The forum, attended by a remarkable 1,300 government and in ...[Read More]
Published: Mar-03-10 | 2 Comments

Mar01

Life Cycle Management (LCM) Thoughts to Ponder

Paragraph E1.29 of DoDD 5000.01 states, among other things, “The PM (Program Manager) shall be the single point of accountability for accomplishing program objectives for total life-cycle systems management, including sustainment. PMs shall cons ...[Read More]
Published: Mar-01-10 | 1 Comment