To complement the existing LOG 235 training course, multiple web-based continuous learning training modules (including CLL 001, CLL 011, and CLL 031), the PBL Community of Practice, the Product Support Manager’s Toolkit, and hosting the DoD PBL Guidebook: A Guide to Developing Performance-Based Arrangements,  DAU also has crafted a series of eight integrated ACQuipedia articles specifically focused on this important product support topic.  These articles address such diverse topic areas as:

·         Performance Based Logistics (PBL) Overview

·         Performance Based Logistics (PBL) Contract Lengths

·         Performance Based Logistics (PBL) Contracting Strategies

·         Performance Based Logistics (PBL) Implementation

·         Performance Based Logistics (PBL) Management

·         Performance Based Logistics (PBL) Metrics - Overview

·         Performance Based Logistics (PBL) Metrics – Techniques & Tools for Optimizing Operating & Support (O&S) Cost & System Readiness

·         Performance Based Logistics (PBL) Metrics - Thresholds vs. Objectives

Developed in support of the Better Buying Power (BBP) 3.0 initiative to ‘ensure effective use of PBL’ as part of the broader effort to ‘incentivize productivity in industry and government’ effort, the newest in this series of ACQuipedia articles deployed this morning. Today's launch of “Performance Based Logistics (PBL) Metrics – Techniques & Tools for Optimizing Operating & Support (O&S) Cost & System Readiness” brings to 95 the total number of life cycle logistics ACQuipedia articles available to the defense acquisition workforce.