Acquisition Synchrony: Cost Is All Around Us!

Webinar 5:  Greater than 7 and 9

Acquisition Synchrony:  Cost Is All Around Us!  In these upcoming Acquisition Synchrony segments, we will be searching for the dollars. Real costs are hidden in the words that we read in acquisition documentation.  Take a trip with us to begin to see the hidden costs within the words. We’ll look at the instructions and guidelines that regulate us and identify those secret areas of cost OUTSIDE of the resident cost and funding section of the LCSP.  Let’s have that discussion.

Webinar 5 begins to dig into the different sections where “cost” resides.  The two primary templates for the Life-Cycle Sustainment Plan (LCSP) are LCSP Outline Version 2.0 (dated 19 Jan 2017) and LCSP Outline Version 3.0 (dated 13 October 2022).  Within each document, there are discrete sections that provide insight into costs (in dollars).  In LCSP v 2.0, this is Section 7.  In LCSP v 3.0, this is Section 9.  Over the next two webinars, we will be exploring all sections EXCEPT the designated cost/funding section.  While cost and funding may reside in sections 7 or 9 depending on which LCSP template is used, the WHOLE document provides strategic clues that have direct and indirect cost impacts. 

Who Should Attend:  Anyone who influences acquisition documentation and/or decision making.

Moderators:  Corey Boone, Mark Powers

References for Deeper Learning:

• DoDD 7045.14:  Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) Process
• Adaptive Acquisition Framework Document Identification (AAFDID)
• Life-Cycle Sustainment Plan Version 3.0
• Life-Cycle Sustainment Plan Version 2.0
• DoDI 5000.91:  Product Support Management for the Adaptive Acquisition Framework
• PS BCA Guideline