The PBL Journey

Select the Journey Phases Below to View Key PBL Documentation During that Timeframe :

• Formulation (c.1997-1999)
• Implementation (c. 2000-2004)
• Application (c. 2005-2008)
• Acceleration (c. 2009-2016)
• Continuous Improvement (c. 2017-present)
   

DoD has been on the Performance Based Logistics/ Performance Based Life Cycle Product Support (PBL) journey since 1997. In the intervening years, DoD policy, processes, and guidance has consistently sought to leverage outcome-based product support and sustainment strategies to deliver optimized affordable readiness in support of warfighter requirements. Seamlessly linked are DoD Life Cycle Management (LCM), initiatives to reduce total ownership costs (TOC)/ life cycle costs (LCC), and interdisciplinary cross-functional integration across both the defense acquisition workforce and the defense logistics enterprise. Note: Many of the documents listed below are provided for historical, archive, or reference purposes, and may have subsequently been superseded or replaced by more current documentation, policy, guidance or reports. For a wide-array of additional PBL-related reports, articles, and related references since 1997, encourage you to also visit the PBL & Product Support Articles and Reports repository in the PBL Reference Library section of this PBL Community of Practice (PBL CoP). 

Formulation (c. 1997-1999)

• Report of the Quadrennial Defense Review (Section VIII: Achieving a 21st Century Defense Infrastructure) (May 1997)
• Task Force on Defense Reform (May 1997)
• Defense Reform Initiative Report (November 1997)
• Public Law 105–85 (FY1998 NDAA) Section 912(c) “Implementation Plan to Streamline and Improve Acquisition Organizations” (November 1997)
• Transforming Defense: National Security in the 21st Century Report of the National Defense Panel (NDP) (December 1997)
• Secretary of Defense Report to Congress: Actions to Accelerate the Movement to the New Workforce Vision (April 1998) 
• Public Law 105-261 (FY99 NDAA) Section 816(a) "Pilot Programs for Testing Program Manager Performance of Product Support Oversight Responsibilities for Life Cycle of Acquisition Programs"  (October 1998)
• The Defense Science Board 1998 Summer Study Task Force on DoD Logistics Transformation. Final Report (December 1998)

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Implementation (c. 2000-2004)

• "DoD Acquisition Workforce Reduction Trends and Impacts" (February 2000)
• Product Support for the 21st Century: A Year Later (September 2000)
• Guidebook for Performance-Based Services Acquisition (PBSA) in the Department of Defense (December 2000)
• The Defense Science Board Task Force on Logistics Transformation Phase II (January 2001)
• Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) (September 2001) 
• Product Support for the 21st Century - A Program Managers Guide to Buying Performance (November 2001)
• Future Logistics Enterprise - The Way Ahead (June 2002)
• DoD Directive 5000.01 The Defense Acquisition System (May 2003)
• Defense Acquisition Guidebook (May 2003 & Subsequent updates until rescinded in 2023)
• DoD Template for Application of TLCSM and PBL in the Weapon System Life Cycle (May 2003)
• Reduction of Total Ownership Costs (R-TOC) Best Practices Guide (July 2003)
• Defense Business Practice Implementation Board Supply Chain/Performance-Based Logistics Task Group Report FY03-4 (October 2003)
• Designing and Assessing Supportability in DOD Weapon Systems: A Guide to Increased Reliability and Reduced Logistics Footprint (October 2003)
• USD AT&L Memorandum "Transformation through Reduction of Total Ownership Costs R-TOC"(December 2003)
• Acting USD (AT&L) Performance Based Logistics Business Case Analysis (BCA) Memo (Product Support Strategy BCA Guiding Principles (January 2004)
• Deputy Secretary of Defense Memo "Implementation of the Defense Business Practice Implementation Board (DBB) Recommendation to the Senior Executive Council (SEC) on Continued Progress on Performance Based Logistics" (February 2004)
• DUSD (LPP) Life Cycle Logistics Workforce Changes Memo (April 2004)
• USD(AT&L) Memo "Performance Based Logistics: Purchasing Using Performance Based Criteria" (August 2004)
• USD (AT&L) Product Support Boundaries Memo (September 2004)
• Management Initiative Decision (MID) 917 - Performance Based Logistics (October 2004)

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Application (c. 2005-2008)

• Performance Based Logistics: A Program Manager's Product Support Guide (March 2005)
• Focused Logistics Roadmap Volume I (September 2005)
• Defense Logistics for the 21st Century (2005)
• Defense Science Board 2005 Summer Study On Transformation: A Progress Assessment Volume II: Supporting Reports (February 2006)
• Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) Commander "Performance Based Logistics (PBL) Guidance & Best Practices" Memo (February 2007)
• DUSD (L&MR) Policy Memo "Life Cycle Sustainment Outcome Metrics" Acquipedia Article (March 2007)
• Condition Based Maintenance Plus DoD Guidebook (May 2008)
• DoD Logistics Human Capital Strategy (June 2008)
• USD (AT&L) Policy Memo "Implementing a Life Cycle Management Framework" (July 2008)
• DoD Instruction 5000.02 Operation of the Defense Acquisition System (December 2008; updated in 2015, 2017, 2021, 2022)

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Acceleration (c. 2009-2016)

• DoD Reliability, Availability, Maintainability-Cost (RAM-C) Report Manual (June 2009)
• Public Law 111-84, Section 805 (October 2009)
• DoD Weapon System Acquisition Reform: Product Support Assessment (November 2009)
• USD AT&L Policy Memo "Strengthened Sustainment Governance for Acquisition Program Reviews" (April 2010)
• USD (AT&L) Better Buying Power (BBP) Initiatives (2013)
• DTM 10-015 Requirements for Life Cycle Management & Product Support (October 2010)
• DTM 11-003 Reliability Analysis, Planning, Tracking, and Reporting Blog Post (March 2011)
• DoD Product Support Manager Guidebook (April 2011; updated in 2019 and 2022)
• DoD Product Support Business Case Analysis Guidebook (April 2011; updated in 2014)
• DoD Logistics Assessment Guidebook (July 2011; updated and retitled ILA Guidebook in 2023)
• USD (AT&L) Document Streamlining - Life-Cycle Sustainment Plan (LCSP) (September 2011; Outlin V3.0 published in 2022)
• Integrated Product Support (IPS) Element Guidebook (November 2011; updated in 2021)
• Public-Private Partnering (PPP) for Product Support - A DoD Guidebook (February 2012; updated in 2016)
• Acting USD (AT&L) Memo "Endorsement of Next-Generation Performance Based Logistics Strategies" (May 2012)
• DoD Guidebook for the Acquisition of Services (June 2012)
• SD-22 Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages (DMSMS): A Guidebook of Best Practices and Tools for Implementing a DMSMS Management Program (August 2012; updated in 2022)
• USD (AT&L) Memo "Better Buying Power 2.0: Continuing the Pursuit for Greater Efficiency and Productivity in Defense Spending" (November 2012)
• Commander, Naval Air Systems Command “Performance Based Logistics Guidance and Best Practices" (December 2012)
• USD (AT&L) Memo "Implementation Directive for Better Buying Power 2.0 - Achieving Greater Efficiency and Productivity in Defense Spending" (Increase Effective use of Performance-Based Logistics, pp 11-12) (April 24, 2013)
• ASD (L&MR) (Acting) "Performance Based Logistics Comprehensive Guidance" Memo (November 22, 2013)
• ASD(L&MR) (Acting) “PBL Guidebook: A Guide to Developing Performance-Based Arrangements” (2014; updated in 2016 and 2023) 
• Better Buying Power (BBP) 3.0 April 2015 Implementation Guidance Carried Forward BBP 2.0 PBL Initiative to "Ensure Effective use of Performance Based Logistics" Blog Post 
• DoD Instruction 5000.02 Operation of the Defense Acquisition System, Enclosure 6, Para 2.a.(1) and Para 2.a.(3) (January 2015) (PBL language later modified and incorporated into DoDI 5000.85, Appendix 3D; see original language at bottom of this page) 
• DoD PBL Guidebook: A Guide to Developing Performance-Based Arrangements (April 2016 Update)
   

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