For our Navy and Marine Corps workforce members, just wanted to let you know that the May 2012 SECNAV M-5000.2 Department of the Navy Acquisition and Capabilities Guidebook is now available. For Army, Air Force and 4th Estate workforce members, check it out as well – potentially good reference materials, insights into lessons learned and best practices, and certainly a benefit if you are supporting a joint program.

According to our Navy colleagues, “this Guidebook provides Department of the Navy Acquisition and Capabilities Guidance for Operation of the Defense Acquisition System and the Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS) and is intended to be used as a companion document to support SECNAVINST 5000.2E Department of the Navy Implementation and Operation of the Defense Acquisition System and the Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System, implementation of DoDI 5000.02 Operation of the Defense Acquisition System, CJCSI 3170.01 Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS), and the JCIDS Manual.”

Chapter 6 contains extensive information of interest to the Life Cycle Logistician, including (but certainly not limited to) such important topics as:

·         Acquisition Logistics and Sustainment

·         Life Cycle Logistics (LCL)

·         Total Life Cycle Systems Management (TLCSM)

·         Program Manager’s LCL Responsibility

·         Warfighter Supportability-Related Performance

·         Supportability

·         Supportability Analyses

·         Support Concepts

·         Support Data

·         Sources for Support Related Data

·         Support Resources

·         Open Architecture

·         Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability (RAM)

Embedded in this chapter are also information on Performance Based Logistics (PBL) in Para 6.1.3.7 (Integrated Product Support Concepts) and the Product Support Manager (PSM) in Para 6.1.3.3 (Program Manager’s LCL Integrated Product Support Responsibility).