LOG 101 Curriculum Review

1. LOG 101 Curriculum Review 28 Jun 02 Richard A. Andrews, CPL Course Manager

2. Course Description The course provides a broad overview of the role of acquisition logistics in the system acquisition life cycle and system engineering processes. Lessons cover the logistics relevant aspects of subjects such as operational requirements identification, life cycle costing, integrated product and process development, sustainment logistics, supportability analyses, contracting, and contractor support. Other lessons focus on the traditional elements of logistics support, to include support equipment, technical data, facilities, computer resources support, supply support, maintenance planning, and others.

3. Course Objectives • Comprehend the philosophy and objectives of logistics support and the attendant management functions necessary to achieve those objectives. • Gain an understanding of logistics related and logistics impacting disciplines and the policies, procedures and management techniques they employ to aid in the establishment of a logistics support capability • Know the environment in which today's defense systems and equipment are conceived, developed, tested, acquired and operated and to understand the part that the commercial sector will play in that environment now and in the future

4. General Information • Introductory course • Based on competencies contained in “DoD Mandatory Course Fulfillment Program and Competency Standards” • On-Line Oct 99 • Contains 16 Lessons • Estimated at 24 hours to complete (2.4 CEUs) • Prerequisite: ACQ 101 • Graduates: 5854 (web-based) • Unsuccessfuls: 827 (12%)

5. Lesson 1: Acquisition Logistics Management • TLO: Given a scenario, distinguish the key concepts of acquisition management that are unique to acquisition logistics. • ELOs: • Define the key areas of acquisition logistics management within the IPPD/IPT environment. • Recognize the critical importance of maintenance planning as the foundation for proper acquisition logistics support. • Recognize the interrelationships/ interdependencies of logistics support elements. • Recognize the current shift in philosophy from organic to contractor support. • Identify key factors that define the budget and funding process for acquisition logistics. • Identify the acquisition logistician's role in reviewing and providing input to various acquisition documents. • Distinguish the difference between the role of the AL in the IPPD process as practiced by private industry and government.

6. Lesson 2: Systems Engineering and Logistics • TLO: Given a scenario, identify the Systems Engineering Process (SEP) as it relates to acquisition logistics within the IPPD environment. • ELOs: • Define the key elements of the systems engineering process. • Recognize the logistics related portions of the Mission Need Statement and Operational Requirements Document. • Identify the role of the logistician utilizing the IPPD methodology to support the systems engineering process. • Define open systems architecture and its impact on system design.

7. Lesson 3: Supportability Analyses • TLO: Given a scenario, identify the importance of supportability analysis, an integral part of the systems engineering process. • ELOs: • Define the purpose of supportability analyses as part of the SE process. • Define the role of the acquisition logistician in the supportability analyses processes and recognize the importance of factors such as support equipment and maintenance planning. • Identify different types of supportability analyses tied to the acquisition phases and types of acquisitions. • Recognize the potential benefit of using trade off analysis to influence system requirements/design. • Recognize the implications in supportability analyses when acquiring commercial/nondevelopmental items. • Identify the impact of the systems engineering process as a force for integration of supportability analyses. • Compare supportability objectives to phases of the Systems Engineering Process addressing design requirements (R&M and qualitative), Support Parameters, and Trade-Off Strategies. • Identify the importance of test and evaluation in validating supportability.

8. Lesson 4: Life Cycle Cost Management • TLO: Given a scenario, identify LCC concepts as they pertain to acquisition logistics. • ELOs: • Define life cycle cost and the purpose of LCC management. • Recognize the concept and impact of using life cycle costs in the acquisition decision-making process and the significance of "best value" in those decisions. • Recognize the purpose and use of Cost as an Independent Variable (CAIV). • Recognize the tradeoff between LCC and the achievement of readiness objectives. • Recognize the use of DoD life cycle cost metrics and tools, including cost estimating models. • Recognize the role of the acquisition logistician as an advocate for life cycle cost.

9. Lesson 5: Sustainment Logistics • TLO: Given a scenario, identify changes underway in the sustainment logistics base and their impact on acquisition logistics. • ELOs: • Define sustainment logistics. • Recognize the need to place emphasis on sustainment logistics as it relates to life cycle costs. • Recognize the need for close interface with the sustainment community. • Recognize today's need to emphasize logistics re-engineering, outsourcing and privatization in identifying logistics support strategy and the magnitude of DoD sustainment information. • Recognize the significance of diminishing manufacturing sources on the defense industrial base. • Recognize the requirement for post production support as it relates to acquisition logistics.

10. Lesson 6: Contractor Support • TLO: Given a scenario, identify the forms of contractor support and the role of the acquisition logistician. • ELOs: • Define contractor support. • Recognize the critical importance of contractor support in the acquisition logistics arena with the emphasis on a preference for contractor support within the DoD. • Identify the various forms of contractor support and explain the purpose of each. • Identify the decision criteria regarding the various applications (or degree) of contractor support. • Identify the responsibilities of the acquisition logistician in the selection and implementation of the various forms of contractor support.

11. Lesson 7: Maintenance Planning • TLO: Given a scenario, identify how the maintenance planning process provides a basis for the establishment of supportability and support element design. • ELOs: • Define the purpose and timing of the maintenance concept. • Define the purpose of maintenance planning and identify the acquisition phases when maintenance planning is considered. • Define the various levels of maintenance within the DoD service components. • Identify the importance of maintenance planning for contractor support within the various levels of DoD component maintenance. • Recognize Depot Maintenance Interservicing and explain the use of Joint Depot Maintenance as a viable option for logistics support. • Recognize and distinguish between the purposes of and uses for depot maintenance interservicing studies and decision tree analysis type efforts. • Recognize the purpose of a Depot Maintenance Interservicing Support Agreement (DMISA). • Identify the acquisition logistician's responsibilities in the establishment of a joint depot maintenance capability.

12. Lesson 8: Computer Resources Support • TLO: Given a scenario, identify the management concepts and decision processes that govern acquisition and support of computer resources. • ELOs: • Define computer resources support and its significance as a major cost driver. • Recognize the current standards and policy for computer resources support. • Summarize the activities involved in the software life cycle. • Describe the types and the technical/managerial issues involved in software support. • Identify ways in which acquisition and logistics personnel can cooperate in considering support issues during acquisition. • Identify some practices that, when implemented, facilitate both software acquisition and support.

13. Lesson 9: Supply Support • TLO: Given a scenario, identify the processes and procedures employed during provisioning, supply support, and source coding during the systems acquisition process • ELOs: • Define supply support and recognize its significance as a major cost driver. • Recognize the purpose of provisioning and how provisioning decisions are made to cost-effectively achieve readiness objectives. • Identify the impact/potential impact on supply support and the provisioning process given contractor provisioning and contractor material management. • Distinguish between the various types of provisioning. • Differentiate between when provisioning planning should begin and when formal provisioning starts. • Identify the methods of provisioning and the conditions that typify their use. • Describe the rationale and benefits for organic and/or contractor supply support strategies. • Define the DoD Source, Maintenance, Recoverability coding process.

14. Lesson 10: Support Equipment • TLO: Given a scenario, identify the policies, procedures, and processes associated with the identification, development, acquisition and support of support equipment. • ELOs: • Define support equipment. • Differentiate between the basic types of support equipment. • Recognize that support equipment can be a major cost factor in the acquisition logistics process. • Summarize the basic principles of support equipment acquisition. • Recognize DoD policy on Automated Test Systems (ATS), the importance of ATS, and the function ATS has in the support equipment arena. • Identify the responsibilities of the acquisition logistician in the support equipment acquisition process. • Identify the role of the acquisition logistician in the ATS acquisition process. • Identify the critical importance of ATS given the rapidity with which technology is changing the role of the logistician.

15. Lesson 11: Facilities • TLO: Given a scenario, identify the process involved in the identification, design and construction of facilities to support systems and equipment. • ELOs: • Define facilities and address their significance as a major cost driver. • Summarize the process used to analyze and define facility requirements. • Define a site survey and the attendant output products. • Recognize the fundamentals of the military construction program. • Identify other authorized funding sources for facility design and construction. • Identify life cycle cost concerns associated with facility requirements.

16. Lesson 12: Technical Data • TLO: Given a scenario, identify the purpose, policies, and procedures for the development of technical data in support of systems and equipment. • ELOs: • Define technical data and recognize its significance as a major cost driver. • Describe the implications of contractor logistics support on requirements for technical data. • Compare and contrast engineering data packages. • Summarize the various types of data rights. • Recognize the purpose of technical order/manuals and how the DoD processes contribute to their development. • Recognize that data requested from the contractor will depend on and/or be influenced by the system's infrastructure and how the system is provisioned. • Identify the responsibilities of the logistician in the development and acquisition of technical orders/manuals including integrated electronic technical manuals, CD-ROM, and other technologies.

17. Lesson 13: PHS & T • TLO: Given a scenario, identify issues associated with the packaging, handling, storage and transportation (PHS&T) of systems and equipment. • ELOs: • Define packaging, handling, storage and transportation of systems and equipment. • Recognize that packaging, handling, storage and transportation of systems and equipment is a major cost driver. • Identify up-front system engineering design factors during the concept and exploration phase that will affect the PHS&T of systems and equipment. • Distinguish between the tree levels of DoD packaging, identified the objective behind performance oriented packaging, and recalled the usability of commercial packaging standards. • Identify service responsibility for the various modes of transportation used in the air, on land, and at sea. • Identify Commercial/Non-developmental item impacts on PHS&T.

18. Lesson 14: Manpower, Personnel & Training • TLO: Given a scenario, distinguish the difference between manpower and personnel policies, procedures and documentation, and identify the key elements of training in support of acquisition logistics. • ELOs: • Define the purpose of manpower and personnel requirements given acquisition logistics. • Describe DoD policy relating to the identification of manpower and personnel requirements. • Identify analytical models or tests that can be used to reveal and quantify manpower and personnel requirements. • Identify and describe major factors that can affect manpower requirements that are both directly and non-directly related to the acquisition logistics process. • Recognize that manpower, personnel and training can be major factors in life cycle cost. • Define the purpose of training and training support requirements in support of acquisition logistics. • Recognize the role of the logistician in the identification of training during the acquisition life cycle. • Recognize the various methods of training and the timing of training during the acquisition cycle. • Identify the role of the Acquisition Logistician using the IPT process to influence acquisition strategy.

19. Lesson 15: Acquisition Strategies • TLO: Given a scenario, identify DoD acquisition strategies as they relate to acquisition logistics. • ELOs: • Define the purpose of logistically-related acquisition strategies within the DoD. • Recognize logistics-related acquisition strategies and what factors can influence these strategies. • Recognize the impact of acquisition reform on the acquisition process and various strategies that impact acquisition. • Recognize how acquisition and support strategies are related. • Distinguish the relationship between various acquisition strategies in the support strategies of Interim Contractor Support and Contractor Logistics Support. • Recognize the importance of foreign sourcing as an acquisition strategy. • Recognize the role of the acquisition logistician in the market investigation efforts in determining applicability of Commercial/Non-developmental Items in an acquisition. • Identify the role of the Acquisition Logistician using the IPT process to influence acquisition strategy.

20. Lesson 16: Interface of Acquisition Logistics with Contracting • TLO: Given a scenario, identify the acquisition logistician's role in the contracting process throughout the system life cycle. • ELOs: • Recognize the impact of contracting for Contractor Logistics Support (CLS) and Interim Contractor Support (ICS. • Recognize the importance of the IPPD/IPT process in defining the logistician role during the contracting process. • Identify how the concept of contractor flexibility can be used to propose alternate solutions for acquistion logistics support. • Recall the purpose of source selection criteria and standards. • Define the logistician role in the development of operational support performance objectives in the Statement of Work and Statement of Objective (SOW/SOO. • Identify how contracts are interrelated and how this affects logistician decisions.

21. Methods of Assessment • Inter-lesson Knowledge Reviews • End-of-Lesson Exam (one question per ELO) • Requires 100% mastery • Three opportunities • Instructor remediation • End of Lesson Exercises (14 of 16 lessons) • 9 of 14 require e-mail input to instructor • 5 have exercise inherent in the lesson • ORD Based

22. Content Updates • April 2002 (version 2): • Jun 2001 DoD 5000 series related • October 2002: • SCORM and ADA compliant • HTML format • Jun 2002 DoD series updates • Contract limited to minor updates (10% or less) • Exercise to be fully integrated into course

23. Issues • Needs a customer reaffirmation of required course competencies • Significant numbers of student not permitted to work on course during duty time

24. Recommendations • FIPT perform a bottoms up review of Course Objectives and TLOs/ELOs • Services emphasize to supervisors the need and value in allowing employees duty time to work on course. • Add material on: • Supply Chain Management • Product Support/PBL • Total Ownership Cost • Logistics in Evolutionary Acquisition and Spiral Development