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What is the difference between the PESHE and the EHA? Do contractors write both? Does the government get to review these?
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What governing documentation defines Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) Management as obsolete?
Background: I'm presently reviewing SECNAV INST 5400.15D, DON Research, Development, Acquisition, and Associated Life-Cycle and Logistics Management policy and I would like to know if the terminology of logistics management / ILS management should be replaced with Integrated Product Support and Product Support Management respectively.
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued an important new report at https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-20-151 entitled "GAO-20-151 Defense Acquisitions: Senior Leaders Should Emphasize Key Practices to Improve Weapon System Reliability". This is a must-read for all DoD product support managers and life cycle logistics professionals. According to the GAO, "the commercial companies GAO reviewed proactively address reliability. They strive to identify reliability issues at the component level early in the development process to avoid expensive rework after producing an entire system. GAO found these companies focus on the following key practices:
Wanted to let the DoD life cycle logistics and product support manager community know that the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Product Support last month updated the DoD Product Support Manager (PSM) Guidebook. While the majority of the updates were administrative in nature, focused on fixing broken hyperlinks and updating terminology, the most significant content change was the replacement of the former “Computer Resources” Integrated Product Support (IPS) Element as the redesigned “Information Technology Systems Continuous Support” IPS Element in Appendix A (in both Table 11 and Paragraph A.12) and elsewhere in the document.Your DAU colleagues have in-turn posted a NextGen-enabled updated December 2019 version of the DoD Product Support Manager (PSM) Guidebook on both our DAU Tools site and also from our Integrated Product Support Guidebook Suite.Encourage you to take a look at this new “Information Technology Systems Continuous Support” IPS Element, as it differs from the former “Computer Resources” element in a number of different ways in areas such as software, program protection planning, cybersecurity, and Information Technology Service Management (ITSM), among others.
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