2021 CLEP Workshop News

Mark you calendars for November 9 and 10. The 2021 CLEP virtual workshop is a go! We have organized ten top logistics professionals to host presentations throughout the two-day event. We are also honored to have Ms. Leigh E. Method give the opening keynote address. Ms. Method is Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Logistics and serves as the principal advisor to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Sustainment. 

Topics throughout our two-day event include: 

• The New TA-STD 0017A – PSA on Steroids 
• Application of Variance Reduction to Logistics Engineering
• Addressing the Support Case, a UK MoD perspective
• Logistics Engineering in 21st Century PBL
• And more...

This two-event event will be hosted via Zoom. Events will run from 12:30 PM EST to 5:30 PM each day.  Registration is open; no charge for CLEP members, non-members are asked to pay $60, which gives access to all presentations. 

For more information, please go to our website.

Webinar Schedule

There are no webinars scheduled for October, November, or December. Our regular monthly webinar schedule will resume starting January 2022.

New CLEP Members for September

Carlos Iván Martínez; Systems Engineer with Fundación Universitaria Monserrate (private university). Bogotá, Colombia

Eric Hodges; Logistics Engineer with TACOM. Sterling Heights, Michigan

Thomas DeLaney; works for the Defense Logistics Agency, Spotsylvania, Virginia

Phillip Perry; Chief Operating Officer (COO) with Harry Kahn Associates, Inc. Hagerstown, Maryland

Jillian Durant; Manassas, Virginia

We welcome these new members to CLEP!

Technical Articles

This month's technical articles are posts from the Defense Acquisition University (DAU) website.

End-of-September 2021 DAU LOG Blog Compendium

Bill Kobren provides a nice run-down of the 45 logistics blog posts hosted by DAU for the month of September.  

Not a Blog Post-

Research Acquisition Journal

The Defense Acquisition Review Journal (ARJ) is a scholarly peer-reviewed journal published by the Defense Acquisition University (DAU). All submissions receive a blind review to ensure impartial evaluation. Articles represent the views of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the DAU or the Department of Defense.

Topics in the current issue include the following:

• Aligning Program Management Competencies to Industry Standards
• Exploring Performance in Air Force Science and Technology Programs
• Professional Reading List: Review of "The Entrepreneurial State : Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths"