Before things get too hectic after the holidays, here are a few resolution ideas the Life Cycle Logistics professional would do well to consider as we enter the new year:

·         Let’s resolve to be stronger proponents of the foundational tenets of life cycle logistics, life cycle management, and designing for supportability. 

·         Let’s resolve to be better life cycle logisticians, better leaders, better managers, and better public servants.

·         Let’s resolve to place even greater focus on customer service and life cycle product support, while striving to more effectively optimize weapon system life cycle costs.

·         Let’s resolve to complete our defense acquisition workforce-required 80 hours of continuous training without being reminded to do so.

·         Let’s resolve to enroll in new DAU life cycle logistics courses (such as LOG 103 Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability [RAM] and LOG 206 Intermediate Systems Sustainment Management) even if we’re already Level II certified.

·         Let’s resolve to frequently remind ourselves who we work for, to be even better stewards of the taxpayer’s dollars, and to strive to deliver efficient and effective outcome-based life cycle product support that exceeds both warfighter and taxpayer expectations. 

·         Let’s resolve to not only embrace, but become strong, knowledgeable, and effective proponents of the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (AT&L) affordability and efficiency initiatives. 

·         Let’s resolve to communicate more effectively by listening more.

·         Let’s resolve to aggressively identify process inefficiencies, and implement necessary improvements.

·         Let’s resolve to strongly advocate for product support, sustainment, and outcome-based life cycle product support during key system design trade decisions, and to convey to our colleagues in other functional disciplines why these things are so important.

·         Finally as the life cycle logistics career field functional leader likes to say, let’s resolve to remember that “on the essentials have unity, on the non-essentials have liberty and tolerance, and in all things have respect for one another.”

Happy New Year to each of you, and thank you for all you do for our nation.