Rapid Fire September 12, 2012: DLA’s Performance-Based Logistics

Sep 12, 2012 10:50 UTC by Defense Industry Daily staff
  • The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) on the rationale for Performance-Based Logistics (PBL):

There are 9 contracts among the services to support [the T700] aircraft engine, plus some DLA contracts. That sounds like someone put together a bunch of contracts without thinking it through, but nobody did it for nefarious reasons. Somebody saw a problem and put a contract in place to solve it. As long as there’s plenty of money to go around, industry is happy to do business that way. But now, they see the budget is coming down and they need to partner with us in creating efficiencies.”

  • Allied Minds, a private investment firm in Boston, MA, made an agreement with three DoD labs and research centers to establish public-private partnerships through the funding of up to 100 companies a year focused on technology transfers and commercial applications. This follows a template Allied Minds says it has been applying in its relationships with more than 40 universities since 2007.
  • SASC chairman Carl Levin [D-MI] doesn’t expect the Senate to take up the 2013 defense bill before the election. This is not a surprise when Senate majority leader Harry Reid [D-NV] seems more concerned with Paul Ryan’s marathon finishing times than getting to work on, well, anything of substance. Case in point: online gambling taking precedence over passing a defense bill. Reid came back from recess this week to announce a “very short and compact” fall session.
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  • Assistant Secretary of the Navy Sean Stackley says funding for CVN refueling will need a standalone bill in the absence of a FY13 bill or existing funds in the FY12 bill about to be extended through a continuing resolution.

  • The British Ministry of Defence unveiled its new team earlier this week, following a cabinet reshuffle.

  • Britain has contracted the disposal of surplus bullets in Afghanistan: it is done in what is pretty much a big oven. The UK will also sell HMS Ark Royal as scrap metal for about 3 million pounds (about $4.8M).

  • The US Army obtained the conviction of 2 soldiers accused of having stolen $600K+ worth of equipment at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, following an investigation that started back in January. Spc. Joshua Chandler was reportedly convicted of larceny and sentenced to 10 years in prison back in July but this is the first we hear of it.

  • The National Research Council published a long report calling for improvements to the US’s ballistic missile defense.

    • Categories: Britain/U.K., Budgets, Corporate Innovations, Daily Rapid Fire, Issues - Political, Logistics Innovations, Missiles - Ballistic, Procurement Innovations, Scandals & Investigations, USA

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