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DOD Defense Acquisition Library
Below, our experts have curated a collection of valuable, publicly available, defense acquisition-related resources. In some cases, a policy or guide may be out of date; however, in our experts’ opinion, the listed version is still a useful resource that may no longer be available elsewhere.
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CATEGORY | Title | AUTHOR | RELEASE DATE | FILE TYPE | DESCRIPTION |
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Product Support | Public-Private Partnering (PPP) for Product Support Guidebook | DOD-L&MR | 01/12/2021 | PDF | Provides best practices that facilitate public-private partnerships and frames the application of partnering in the remaining integrated product support elements encompassing the full scope of defense system product support activities. |
Product Support | Product Support Tool Kit | AFLCMC/LG-LZ | 07/15/2021 | PDF | The Product Support Tool Kit (PSTK) was developed as a quick reference tool for personnel working life cycle logistics tasks throughout a weapon system’s life cycle. |
Product Support | Integrated Product Support (IPS) Elements Guidebook | DAU | 03/11/2024 | PDF | Picks up where the Product Support Manager Guidebook Appendix A left off in describing the new 12 IPS elements in order to accommodate the expanded, enterprise-level role of the product support manager. |
Product Support | Standard Process for Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM) | AFLCMC/LG-LZ | 01/18/2024 | PDF | This document defines roles, responsibilities, and processes required to effectively and proactively conduct Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM). SCRM starts with early acquisition planning and is continuously assessed and refined throughout a program’s life cycle. |
Product Support | Logistics Health Assessment (LHA) Users Guide | AFLCMC/LG
| 02/14/2014 | PDF | Describes the overall LHA and provides the user with additional information on the tool to include weighting factors, business rules, product support element resources, and multiple annexes. The assessment is recommended to be accomplished quarterly, or as directed by higher headquarters guidance, with results will be presented through a multitude of reviews. |
Product Support | Life Cycle Sustainment Plan (LCSP) Outline | DAU | 10/13/2022 | PDF | The Life-Cycle Sustainment Plan (LCSP) outline provides a framework to think systematically and critically through the set of planning factors that must be integrated and communicated across the enterprise to achieve required sustainment outcomes. |
Product Support | Standard Process for Self-Assessment / Independent Logistics Assessment (ILA) | AFLCMC/LG | 03/28/2024 | PDF | An Independent Logistics Assessment (ILA) is an analysis of a program’s supportability planning. It is conducted by an independent and impartial team of subject matter experts (SMEs) not directly associated with the program being assessed.
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Product Support | Standard Process for Logistics Health Assessment (LHA) | AFLCMC/LG | 04/18/2024 | PDF | Provides the life cycle community with a standard, tailorable, user-friendly tool to report on and ensure long-term sustainment and availability considerations are identified and integrated into early program decisions and re-evaluated throughout the life cycle of the program/system. |
Product Support | Standard Process for Life Cycle Sustainment Plans | AFLCMC/LG-LZ | 10/19/2023 | PDF | The purpose of this standard process is to provide assistance and guidance to the program office (PO) to aid in the standardization of the development and coordination of program LCSPs across the center. |
Product Support | Life Cycle Product Support Planning: Intellectual Property (IP) Toolkit | WAU | 01/21/2025 | PDF | The Toolkit is designed to serve as both an instructional training resource as well as a practitioner’s desk reference. The Toolkit covers early IP Strategy planning for total life cycle PS and enables Product Support Managers (PSMs) and Life Cycle Logisticians to lead their stakeholders in planning for and implementing effective IP strategies. |
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