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Defense Acquisition Magazine September-October 2022

Defense Acquisition Magazine September-October 2022 cover

DEFENSE ACQUISITION MAGAZINE

 

September - October 2022

Defense Acquisition is a bimonthly magazine published by DAU Press for senior military personnel, civilians, defense contractors, and defense industry professionals in program management and acquisition, technology and logistics workforce.

ISSN 2637-5060

View as PDF  9 Articles in This Magazine

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The Way Forward

Dr. William LaPlante

The Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment discusses current challenges and priorities.

Product Support Lessons From an Aircraft Maintenance Officer

Shawn Harrison

Visit your customers on their turf—a key lesson from a 27-year career working on various jobs and aircraft.

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Designing for Weapons Maintainability A Necessity for Increasingly Complex Technology

LTC Steven V. Karl, USA (Ret.)

The war in Ukraine demonstrates the vital importance of battlefield maintenance and logistics.

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Under the Product Support Umbrella
10 Foundational Enablers of Affordable Readiness

Bill Kobren

Product Support Management for the Adaptive Acquisition Framework, DoD Instruction 5000.91, captures all 10 of the most critical readiness enablers.

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Defense Industrial Base Health Concerns
Implications for Program Office Teams

Brian Schultz

The shrinking Defense Industrial Base (DIB) faces many challenges. The trends are not favorable.

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Your Leadership Message

Owen Gadeken

Here’s a framework and set of tools for developing and delivering an effective leadership message.

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TEDxDAU 2022 
Reimagining Readiness With People and Technology

Matthew Sablan

Readiness now focuses on embracing new technologies, like the digital landscape, and better workforce development support.

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Defense Acquisition Magazine

September - October 2022

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Mark S. Phillips, PH.D.

Instead of mass inspection or capability analysis, digital surveillance can be performed on a digital twin and can help us understand Design for Manufacturing and Assembly.

LT COL Stephen Waugh, USMC (RET.), DBA

Following several steps in order can make a digital initiative a true innovation with a predictable return on investment.

Richard Newton

Funding is the foundation that enables science and technology transitions to cross the Valley of Death to acquisition programs. But there are other best practices that bridge the chasm.

Don O'Neill

The Urgent Capability Acquisition pathway is highly compressed and must be completed from pre-development to delivery of the capability in under two years. This provides very little time for all that must be done.

LTC John A. Wright, USA (RET.)

Supply chains across the globe remain dramatically out of sync, with congestion at seaports marking the latest in a long list of problems.