A special Better Buying Power (BBP) 3.0 Issue of Defense AT&L Magazine was just issued yesterday featuring a range of excellent articles from senior leaders across the department including the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics.  Articles include:

·         From the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics—Program Manager Assessments: Professionalism Personified

·         Integrating Innovation Keeping the Leading Edge

·         The Challenge of Technological Superiority

·         Removing Bureaucracy

·         Modernizing Our Industrial Base—The National Security Challenge of Our Time

·         Owning the Technical Baseline—a Key Enabler Agility as the Counterweight to Uncertainty and Change

·         Improving Tradecraft of Services Acquisition

·         Getting the Requirements Right

·         Tasked and Ready—The Army’s Commitment to the Better Buying Power Program

·         Reward Industry for Innovative Outcomes

·         Sustainment and Logistics in Better Buying Power

·         Market Research—Faster, Smarter and Predictive

·         One More Time—Time Management for Those Who Don’t Have the Time

Encourage you to read this particular issue cover-to-cover. There is much here to consider, and this particular edition affords readers an excellent opportunity to gain insights into the perspectives of leadership from across the department.

Two articles in particular would encourage life cycle logisticians and product support managers to take note of are the “Improving Tradecraft of Services Acquisition“ (Overview: “The Department of Defense recently has spent more money on contracted services than on weapons systems. But buying contract services lacks the structured governance and oversight of weapons acquisitions”) and the “Sustainment and Logistics in Better Buying Power“ article (Summary: “The latest guidance emphasizes not just increasing Performance-Based Logistics (PBL) but also ensuring its effective use. Specific actions include developing common ways to measure PBL effectiveness and using those measures to track results and reporting the results quarterly”). We have also posted links to both of these articles on the PBL & Product Support Articles & Reports site along with more than 350 related articles and reports already available on this excellent Performance Based Logistics Community of Practice (PBL CoP) resource.