Rapid Fire June 11, 2012: Product Support Manager Conference Proceedings
Jun 11, 2012 09:50 UTC by Defense Industry Daily staffPresentations from the US DoD’s 2nd Product Support Manager (PSM) conference that took place last week can be found here (the 1st conference explained what a PSM is). A few highlights [PDF documents]:
- Nick Guertin, Director for Transformation RDT&E in the Navy, wants the government to “assert and exercise” its intellectual property rights, break vendor lock-in and increase transparency: Competition and the DoD marketplace. Guertin has been working on Naval Open Architecture for years.
- Partnering and Industrial Integration covers several contract vehicles from a contractor’s perspective, including one that may make it into the forthcoming NDAA: Enterprise Performance Based Logistics Contracts (ePBL), Enterprise Public Private Partnerships (ePPP), and Product Improvement Pilot Program (PIP2). The DLA also chimed in on performance-based logistics.
- An annotated outline of the Life-Cycle Sustainment Plan (LCSP) explains how this document should evolve over the life of a program to explain at what level of performance and cost its sustainment should be, and the means to get there.
- Rapid acquisition comes with risks and challenges.
In other news:
- Eurosatory Day 1 link wrap-up.
- Nexter CEO Philippe Burtin thinks [in French] that another wave of consolidation among European defense manufacturers is coming.
- Marinette Marine has been expanding its shipyard in Wisconsin where Lockheed Martin’s LCS are built.
- India’s air force is facing several pressing issues, from high accident rates to officer shortages.
