PRODUCT SUPPORT PULSE

ISSUE NO 5 | SUMMER 2021

I want to introduce myself as the new Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Product Support. I’m excited to return to OSD and to work with you to advance Product Support initiatives and efforts on behalf of the Department. I will strive every day to ensure we are all successful in providing effective, affordable and sustainable warfighting capability. My staff and I will accomplish this by aligning our efforts with the Department’s priorities in the following areas:

1. Providing the DoD enterprise with policy, processes, and guidance that foster effective and affordable product support planning and execution.

2. Providing DoD decision makers with comprehensive, timely, and actionable program sustainment assessments in order to develop effective and affordable product support solutions.

3. Developing and leading civilian logistics workforce policy, training, and recognition.

4. Developing and synchronizing strategic and operational logistics initiatives with international allies.

It is important for us to realize that we all have a part to play in achieving these goals. No effort is too small or accomplishment insignificant. Every contribution we make is needed to be successful for warfighter capability and readiness. With that, let us look at some of the current actions in my office. The revised D0DI 5000.91 policy “Product Support for the Adaptive Acquisition Framework” has been submitted for formal coordination, see page 2 for more details on this! Once published, it will be full speed ahead to update the PS Managers Guidebook. Looking forward to the update!

Policy and workforce actions are critical pieces to Total Lifecycle Logistics that also foster strong partnerships with our International Allies. Included in this newsletter, you will read about two of our International partnerships, Korea and Singapore. Featured articles include Life-Cycle Logistics Credentials and Model-Based Engineering for Product Support. Lastly we will showcase our Fellow and Career Broadener as part of the PS staff.

Let me close with this thought, we can’t succeed if we don’t try. I look forward to working with you on these and other Product Support actions. Thanks for your support!

MESSAGE FROM DASD PRODUCT SUPPORT (PS)

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DoDI 5000.91 – soon!!

POLICY

Fully addressing the Title 10 life cycle management and product support requirements, the Department has taken great strides to emphasize the importance of product support through functional policy. We are in the process of publishing DoDI 5000.91 "Product Support Management for the Adaptive Acquisition Framework." The forthcoming instruction highlights the need of product support planning early within the life cycle of a weapon system regardless of the adaptive acquisition framework pathway. It also details National Defense Authorization Act 2021 statutory and regulatory product support requirements. The product support policy team’s ultimate goal for the DoDI is to provide instruction to help enable tailored product support solutions to foster effective product support planning and execution. After successful publication of the DoDI 5000.91, the next line of effort will be to develop a functional guide that will provide agile and tailored PS approaches that align to the new policy. In FY22, the policy team with Service inputs, will review and update the DoD Life Cycle Sustainment Plan (LCSP) Outline and key PS guidebooks.

MICRO ELECTRONICS

The Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Sustainment traveled to the Defense Microelectronics Activity (DMEA) in Sacramento, CA followed up three weeks later with a trip to DMEA by the Director of the DoD Microelectronics Cross Functional Team and the Chief Technical Officer of OUSD Industrial Policy. DMEA provides four valuable microelectronics services to the DoD:

1. Quick Turn Engineering Microelectronics Design;

2. Forensic Microelectronics Failure Mode Analysis;

3. Microelectronics contracting services; &

4. Microelectronics Radiation Hardening Testing.

OUSD A&S is completing a DMEA study to include if DoD microelectronics technologies and capabilities are housed at other DoD laboratories, arsenals and depots. Additionally, the study will complement and can support DMEA’s Warrior Solutions capabilities as well as allow conservation of resources. This study will determine if they can share capabilities in order to provide the DoD weapons systems developers and USG intelligence agency designers the most effective and cost efficient solutions.

GLOBAL LOGISTICS

REPUBLIC OF KOREA MINISTRY OF NATIONAL DEFENSE TOTAL LIFE-CYCLE MANAGEMENT WORKING GROUP (TWG): On 7 July, Mr. Williams, Director of Strategy, and International Logistics and COL Lee Woon Jang, Director of ROK MND Equipment Management Division, Co-Chaired the TWG via Microsoft TEAMS. During the TWG, the July 2017 Terms of Reference Document (TOR) was updated, and signed effective 7 Jul 21. The TOR between the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and the Ministry of National Defense (MND) of the Republic of Korea (ROK) fosters cooperation to strengthen the logistics support capability of both nations by holding policy-level discussions on bilateral acquisition, operation and sustainment issues. The TOR establishes the TWG under the Logistics Cooperation Committee (LCC). The TWG intends to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the workforces of both nations and their Total Life-Cycle Systems Management policies and procedures through the exchange of information and the identification of mutual cooperative milestone development. This reflects the continued cooperation and logistical support shared on the Peninsula to prevent and/or resolve potential issues for continued Sustainment support.

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ISSUE NO 5 | SUMMER 2021

USEFUL LINKS

PRODUCT SUPPORT: EFFECTIVE-AFFORDABLE-SUSTAINABLE LIFE-CYCLE WARFIGHTER CAPABILITY

LIFE-CYCLE LOGISTICS CREDENTIALS

This is the first in a series of regular updates on DAU life cycle logistics credentials to keep our workforce apprised of the status of these powerful new learning

assets designed to facilitate your life-long learning. We have five fielded life cycle logistics credentials available today – CLCL 001 Product Support Management Fundamentals, CLCL 003 Supply Chain Integration, CLCL 005 Supportability & Design Interface, CLCL 009 Information Technology Life Cycle Support, and CLCL 011 Product Support Affordability & Cost Fundamentals. Additionally, ten other Integrated Product Support (IPS) element-based life cycle logistics credentials are in various stages of development, and include: • CLCL 002 Integrated Product

Support • CLCL 004 Maintenance Planning &

Management • CLCL 007 Product Support Analysis • CLCL 006 Designing Supportable

Systems • CLCL 008 Product Support

Arrangements • CLCL 010 Technical Data

Management • CLCL 012 Product Support O&S

Cost Management • CLCL 013 Packaging, Handling,

Storage & Transportation (PHS&T) • CLCL 014 Parts & Material Life Cycle

Management • CLCL 015 Product Support

Infrastructure The rest of the article by Bill Kobren is available at: Life-Cycle Credentials

MODEL-BASED ENGINEERING FOR PRODUCT SUPPORT

Use of predictive analysis and modeling to improve system availability and reliability is a statutory responsibility of a Product Support Manager (PSM). With today’s weapon systems largely designed (or modified) using Model-Based Engineering (MBE), three-dimensional (3D) models should figure prominently in carrying out this responsibility.

While current MBE focus in the Department of Defense (DoD) and military Services’ “digital campaigns” largely aim at the front end of acquisition, (i.e., requirements development, design, production, and test), PSMs must consider many product support applications. PSMs and their teams must become conversant about MBE concepts and leverage models to preserve or improve system availability and reliability across the life cycle. This article’s purpose is to (1) summarize recent research on MBE and product support; (2) review several weapon system examples; and (3) describe a proposed future state of product support activities underpinned by MBE. The rest of this article by Shawn Harrison is available at: Model-Based-Engineering

SUSTAINMENT FELLOW My name is Anthony Lee and for the past year, I’ve been a member of OSD Sustainment Fellowship Program which is a premier career broadening opportunity that is designed to enhance career development of military O-4/O-5 and civilian GS-13/GS-14 professionals who work in the logistics, environmental, energy, acquisition, and engineering arenas. The program offers hands-on leadership development. I applied with the aspirations of garnering a strategic perspective on how and why decisions are made at the enterprise level. Secondly, I saw this program as a unique opportunity to engage and learn from senior leaders at the highest level. As the fellowship comes to an end for the 2020-2021 cohort, this past year has been filled with opportunity to learn and excel both professionally and personally. To have had the opportunity to participate in this premier program has been nothing short of a blessing and has served as a stepping stone in my career.

CAREER BROADENER My name is Alyssa Alfrejd and a Air Force Career Broadener currently on a thirty-six month rotational assignment at ODASD with

my first rotation in Product Support. My 10 years of civil service experience has been in Logistics at Robins AFB, GA predominantly in enterprise contract vehicles. I will predominently focus on Workforce Development, spearheading the LogTech Course Program, and supporting a variety of other programs. I’m beyond excited for this opportunity to work within OSD and also learn from the Services and the entire DoD community that I will be supporting.

GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT: SINGAPORE

Mr. Ong Eng Teck (Counsellor) and Grace Ng Jiong Jing (First Secretary) representing MINDEF Singapore hosted Ms. Lisa P. Smith (DASD-PS), Mr. Derrin Williams (Director, Intl Engagement) and Mr. James Albritton (Analyst) at the Embassy of Singapore on July 13th. The discussion focused on the Fall 2021 Joint Logistics Bilateral Forum (JLBF) where the goal is to collaborate on the logistics, supply chain, life cycle management, business and information architecture and policies, to exchange best practices and create interoperable solutions in support of operations. After such an exciting and informative Singapore Embassy visit, we are excited about the potential to visit Singapore for the 2022 JLBF!