As we regularly share each month, your DAU teammates offer a wide range of learning assets to support your personal professional development journey. A great place to start includes a growing portfolio of now 54 interdisciplinary Defense Acquisition Credentials on a wide range of targeted, focused, life cycle acquisition and sustainment topics. We similarly offer a portfolio of nearly 500 curated ACQuipedia articles on a range of key acquisition, product support, and sustainment topics. Not to mention literally thousands of multi-functional training courses, videos, communities, periodicals, and job support tools.

Our DAU iCatalog affords workforce members a quick, simple, and easy opportunity to sort and explore credentials, training courses, workshops, certification and development guides by functional area. Because the vast majority of key acquisition and sustainment topics are not limited to a single functional area, we recognize that easily-accessible “one-stop shop” listings – or perhaps a better term might be “playlists” – are a potentially high-valued interdisciplinary resource for members of the defense acquisition workforce.

Leveraging topic-specific, multi-disciplinary information promulgated via posts in this DAU LOG Blog, these topically-focused learning asset and related resources listings now include more than 30 separate and distinct areas:

• Additive Manufacturing/3D Printing
• Commercial-Off-the-Shelf (COTS) Products
• Condition-Based Maintenance Plus (CBM+) and Predictive Maintenance
• Contingency Contracting
• Corrosion Prevention & Control (CPC)
• Counterfeit Parts Prevention, Detection, and Resolution
• Cybersecurity
• Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• DevSecOps & Cloud Computing Operations
• Digital Engineering, Digital Product Support, and Digital Acquisition
• Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages (DMSMS), Obsolescence, and Parts Management
• Environment, Safety, and Occupational Health (ESOH)
• Financial Improvement and Audit Readiness/ Remediation (FIAR) and Property Management/Accountability
• Integrated Product Support (IPS) Elements
• Intellectual Property and Technical Data Rights
• Life Cycle Logistics
• Life Cycle Sustainment Plan (LCSP)
• Maintenance Planning and Maintenance Management
• Product Support Metrics & Incentives
• Performance Based Logistics (PBL)
• Product Support Business Case Analysis (PS BCA) and Analysis of Alternatives (AoA)
• Product Support Contract Data Requirements List (CDRL)
• Product Support Manager (PSM)
• Reliability Availability, Maintainability, Supportability (RAMS)
• Risk, Issues, Opportunity (RIO) Management
• Software Life Cycle Management & Agile Software Development
• Supply Chain Management (SCM)
• Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM) & Supply Chain Resiliency
• Sustainability & Environment
• Sustainment
• System Retirement, Disposition, Reclamation, Demilitarization & Disposal
• ​​Technical Data Management

Moving forward, our plan is to continue to update, add to, and continue to promulgate this hyperlinked listing on a monthly basis. We encourage readers to take a moment and let us know what multi-disciplinary topic areas you would next like to see added to this growing list.