29) DoD reiterated the importance of Life Cycle Management principles by acknowledging the long-term benefits of addressing long-term sustainment planning, including cost containment early in a system's life cycle in August 2006 when the Joint Requirements Oversight Council (JROC) strengthened current DoD Total Life Cycle Systems Management (TLCSM) policy by issuing JROC Memorandum 161-06 "Key Performance Parameter (KPP) Study Recommendations and Implementation.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Life Cycle Management Program management should not need a specific policy to steer a more comprehensive total systems life cycle management perspective, such as is now warranted by DoD's Total Life Cycle Systems Management policy.
Q A little perspective before asking this question: The PMs I encounter in the classroom are largely saddled with the responsibility or accountability for implementing total life cycle systems management across the life cycle.
1, The Defense Acquisition System, May 12, 2003, designates the PM as the life cycle manager for Total Life Cycle Systems Management (TLCSM), responsible not only for effective and timely acquisition of the system, but also for sustainment of a system throughout its life cycle.
5, 2005: * Provides supportability planning and procedures in support of total life cycle systems management and the acquisition process * Provides information on integrated logistics support, identifying tools for integrated logistics support tasks and supportability planning in all phases of the life cycle * Emphasizes cost as an independent variable and addresses commercial and nondevelopmental items as well as procedures used to acquire training systems.
This major revision: * Eliminates the Acquisition Management Milestone System * Eliminates integrated logistics support lessons learned * Adds concept of total life cycle systems management * Adds Army policy on performance-based logistics * Adds responsibilities where the deputy assistant secretary of the Army (Integrated Logistics Support) is the Army acquisition logistician * Changes integrated logistics support plan to supportability strategy * Adds policy on integrated logistics support after fielding.
