Creating an IP Management Plan for Product Support

Ms. Smith, a member of the Senior Executive Service, is the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Product Support and serves as the principal advisor to the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) leadership on policies, procedures, and actions related to the readiness and sustainability of major weapon systems. She is responsible for the development and implementation of acquisition and sustainment strategies and processes providing the Warfighter with cost-effective weapon system readiness across the life cycle. In addition, Ms. Smith coordinates and synchronizes ASD(S) international and partner engagements. She also manages the logistics and acquisition workforce for the Department of Defense.  She assumed her current position in April 2021. 

Ms. Solomon serves as the Sustainment and Technical Data Management Lead for the Deputy Director for Intellectual Property (IP) Cadre, in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment.  She is responsible for coordinating DoD-wide policy and guidance on product support and sustainment data-driven analyses required to tailor IP and technical data requirements to the unique characteristics of the program's acquisition and product support strategies. 

Mrs. Bell serves as the acting Director of Product Support Policy in the ODASD for Product Support. She leads the effort in developing and providing the DoD enterprise with policy, processes and procedures that fosters and enables effective product support planning and execution. She is responsible for updating policy, processes and guidance that aid Life Cycle Logisticians across the DoD enterprise with consolidated resources for product support management policy including general guidance and specific guidance for each of the six Adaptive Acquisition Framework pathways.

Ms. Waterbury serves as the Logistics Product Support Chief for FLRAA. In this position she has the privilege of developing the next long-range reconnaissance helicopter. Prior to this position Ms. Waterbury worked as the Apache PBL Sustainment Chief, Logistics Professor, and an Acquisition Strategist. She was responsible a forum where the AAE and the Army Material Command (AMC) Commanding General created and promulgated a joint strategy for the two communities. She also led Performance Based Logistics for Apache and the AMC, working with Program Managers and Program Executive Offices to assist them with their PBL programs, coordinating the needs of multiple organizations across DoD, and enabling the PM to create and implement support strategies that served our soldiers worldwide.