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DoD Weapon System Acquisition Reform: Product Support Assessment, DTD Nov 2009

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According to Dr. Carter, (Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology & Logsitics), "this DoD Weapon System Acquisition Reform: Product Support Assessment captures the findings and recommendations need to drive the next generation of product support strategies. During its year-long study, our 65-member pan-DoD and industry team led by the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Materiel Readiness, identified eight principal areas, that, if developed or improved, will make product support more effective and acquisition reform more far-reaching." These eight areas are:

1. Product Support Business Model

2. Industrial Integration Strategy

3. Supply Chain Operational Strategy

4. Governance

5. Metrics

6. Operations and Support Costs

7 Analytical tools

8. Human Capital

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DoD Weapon System Acquisition Reform: Product Support Assessment

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DoD Weapon System Acquisition Reform PSA_19 NOV_Final.pdf

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It is crucial to our national interest that product support achieves a level of performance equal to its critical importance. This report, inspired by a Warfighter-driven operational perspective, offers clearly defined, implementable recommendations to drive the next generation of product support strategies toward that objective, with a clear vision to achieve aligned and synchronized operational, acquisition, and sustainment communities working together to deliver required and affordable Warfighter outcomes.

Transforming product support will require not only strong leadership in the Department of Defense, but also an open-minded, reform-driven DoD-Congressional partnership and a collaborative DoD-Industry relationship to realize the report objectives. The national security and economic environments dictate tough-minded acquisition reform and logistics transformation. The challenges of affordability constraints, the need to upgrade equipment and infrastructure, and a continuing, persistent operations tempo prescribe a clear need for DoD implementation of an integrated plan to address product support across the Defense enterprise. Successful change in weapon system product support will be demonstrable by reducing costs while maintaining equal or greater equipment readiness support for key warfighting capabilities. As DoD moves forward with acquisition reform and improved life cycle management practices, product support improvement is a key enabler of these critical implementation efforts. The recommendations included in this report will yield a higher level of effectiveness in overall acquisition and logistics processes, and in turn, significantly improve the sustained capability and affordability of our weapons systems.

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