New supportability guidebook.The Office of the Secretary of Defense The Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) is part of the United States Department of Defense and includes the entire staff of the Secretary of Defense. It is the principal staff element of the Secretary of Defense in the exercise of policy development, planning, resource has prepared a new supportability guidebook titled Designing and Assessing Supportability in DoD Weapon Systems: A Guide to Increased Reliability and Reduced Logistics' Footprint. The guidebook can be found on the AT & L Knowledge Sharing System Web site at <http://acc.dau.mil/simplify/ev.php?ID = 15943_201 & ID 2 = DO_TOPIC>. One fundamental change in DoD policy is the designation of the weapon system Program Manager (PM) as the life cycle manager (Total Life Cycle Systems Management, or TLCSM TLCSM Total Life Cycle Systems Management (US DoD) ), responsible not only for effective and timely acquisition of the system, but also for service as the primary manager and single point of accountability for sustainment of a weapon system throughout its life cycle. This guide provides a template (1) A pre-designed document or data file formatted for common purposes such as a fax, invoice or business letter. If the document contains an automated process, such as a word processing macro or spreadsheet formula, then the programming is already written and embedded in the for PMs to use in defining and assessing their program activities to meet DoD policy requirements throughout the weapon system life cycle. Emphasis is placed on designing for increased reliability and reduced logistics footprint and on providing for effective product support through performance-based logistics (PBL PBL Problem-Based Learning PBL Phi Beta Lambda PBL Performance Based Logistics PBL Planetary Boundary Layer PBL Publishing and Broadcasting Limited (Australia) PBL Philippine Basketball League PBL Peripheral Blood Leukocyte ) strategies. The guide uses the Defense Acquisition Management Framework and a systems engineering process to define the appropriate activities and required outputs throughout a weapon system's life cycle to include those related to sustainment of fielded systems. A System Operational Effectiveness framework is included that shows the linkage linkage In mechanical engineering, a system of solid, usually metallic, links (bars) connected to two or more other links by pin joints (hinges), sliding joints, or ball-and-socket joints to form a closed chain or a series of closed chains. between overall operational effectiveness and weapon system and product support performance. This guide provides a reference for PMs and their teams to design in and then assess the effectiveness of their TLCSM responsibilities in implementing PBL strategies anywhere along the system's life cycle. (Lawrence Thurman/SAAL-PA/DSN 664-7021/e-mail: lawrence.thurman@us.army.mil An Internet address domain name for a military agency. See Internet address. (networking) mil - The top-level domain for entities affiliated with US armed forces. ) |
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