The Defense Life-Cycle Logistics Journey: A 10-Year Retrospective of Product Support Transformation

Abstract

The Life Cycle Logistics career field comprises professionals responsible for planning, development, implementation and execution of effective and affordable weapons, materiel and information systems product support strategies. Life Cycle Logistics encompasses both acquisition and sustainment activities spanning a weapon system's life cycle. It is today the third largest Defense Acquisition Workforce career field, made up of more than 17,000 civilian and military personnel from the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force and a range of Department of Defense (DoD) agencies. It has not, however, always been so.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2014
Accession Number
ADA608642

Entities

People

  • Bill Kobren

Organizations

  • Defense Acquisition University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Community Of Practice
  • Cycles
  • Department Of Defense
  • Life Cycle Management
  • Life Cycles
  • Logistics
  • Maintenance
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Acquisition
  • Military Personnel
  • Organizational Structure
  • Professional Development
  • Standards
  • Systems Engineering
  • Systems Management
  • Training

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.