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Oct31

Product Support Content in Newly Revised ACQ 202 Course

Those of you who have perused the recently updated Life Cycle Logistics DAWIA Certification Requirements page on the DAU Logistics Community of Practice (LOG CoP) Professional Development website no doubt noticed that the old ACQ 201A and ACQ 20 ...[Read More]
Published: Oct-31-14 | 4 Comments

Oct21

DoD Announces Winners of 2014 Secretary of Defense Performance Based Logistics (PBL) Awards

In an October 17, 2014 memo “2014 Secretary of Defense Performance Based Logistics (PBL) Awards Selection”, the Principal Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (AT&L) announced the winners of the tenth an ...[Read More]
Published: Oct-21-14 | 0 Comments

Oct16

NAVSEA Virtual Logistics Conference (October 29-30, 2014)

For life cycle logisticians, product support managers, and other logistics, sustainment, and product support professionals assigned to or supporting the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) and the Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP), in case yo ...[Read More]
Published: Oct-16-14 | 0 Comments

Oct14

Army Issues New Integrated Product Support (IPS) Policy and Associated Implementation Procedures

The new Army Regulation 700-127 "Integrated Product Support" dated October 7, 2014 has been issued and is now available.  This major revision, dated 7 October 2014 will not, however, take effect until 7 November 2014. According to the ...[Read More]
Published: Oct-14-14 | 0 Comments

Oct10

Market Research Resources

Thought you might find this report issued yesterday entitled “GAO-15-8 Market Research: Better Documentation Needed to Inform Future Procurements at Selected Agencies” by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to be of interest.   In case ...[Read More]
Published: Oct-10-14 | 0 Comments

Oct08

Best Value Contracting Forum

Wanted to draw your attention to a blog post by my DAU Contracting Center counterpart entitled “Defense Pricing and Industry Dialogue "Best Value Contracting: Getting to the Right Price", which reads in part:   “On 7 November 2014, ...[Read More]
Published: Oct-08-14 | 0 Comments

Oct07

Registration Now Open for January 13-15, 2015 DoD Product Support Manager's (PSM) Workshop

To update you on blog post I shared in August entitled “DoD Announces 2015 Product Support Manager's (PSM) Workshop,” I wanted to let interested DoD Product Support Managers, Program Managers and Life Cycle Logisticians, their industry counterpa ...[Read More]
Published: Oct-07-14 | 0 Comments

Oct06

Senate Report on Defense Acquisition Reform: Where Do We Go From Here?

If you hadn't seen it already, the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI), released a bipartisan report entitled “Defense Acquisition Reform: Where do we go from Here? A Compendium Of Views By Leading Experts” on October 2, 2014. ...[Read More]
Published: Oct-06-14 | 0 Comments

Oct02

DoD IG Report on Reliability of Spare Parts Forecasts

According to a recently issued September 29, 2014 DoD Inspector General Report DODIG-2014-124 entitled “Army Needs to Improve the Reliability of the Spare Parts Forecasts It Submits to the Defense Logistics Agency," the “Army Life Cycle Man ...[Read More]
Published: Oct-02-14 | 0 Comments

Oct01

New LOG 215 Technical Data Management Course Now Available

A new LOG 215 Technical Data Management web-based distance learning course deployed earlier today, and is now available for student registration! This new course is intended to provide a comprehensive knowledge and understanding of technical dat ...[Read More]
Published: Oct-01-14 | 0 Comments