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A COMMUNITY OF KNOWLEDGE


Lt. Gen. Michael E. Williamson, principal military deputy to the ASA(ALT), urges the acquisition community to identify lessons learned and record them in the ALLP. It’s one way to mitigate some of the bureaucratic isolation that can hamper the efficient adoption of best practices. (Image by USAASC/exdez/iStock)


NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN While the products may be different, the overall processes of Army acquisition haven’t changed much over the years—there probably isn’t a new problem, only the same problem in slightly different form. Te beauty of lessons learned is not unlike going online to watch a YouTube video to learn how to do macramé or fix a leaking faucet. It’s knowledge management. So, whether the challenge is with contracting, cost overruns, scheduling, negotiations or anything else acquisition-related, someone has probably gone through it before. And if that someone has taken the time to write up a lesson learned, it’s going to save the next person from having to reinvent the wheel. Tat’s the idea behind the Army Acquisition Lessons Learned Portal (ALLP).


According to Guite, the portal grew out of a recommendation from the 2010 Army Acquisition Review (also known as the Decker-Wagner report), which recommended that the Army should develop a single database that captures “appropriate programs, issues, trends, solutions and successes in acquisition programs.” In 2012, then-Army Acquisition Executive Heidi


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Shyu issued a memo directing that all acquisition category (ACAT) programs conduct after-action reviews (AARs) at major milestone events and program terminations. Tose would then be collected in one database to be analyzed, archived and dis- seminated throughout the acquisition enterprise. Te ALLP quickly became the authoritative source of Army acquisition lessons learned.


Interest in the portal was considerable, and Army AL&T began highlighting lessons learned in its Ground Truth column, which quickly became one of the magazine’s more popular features.


LESSON APPLIED Price and her core team met with the JPM NBC CA team repre- sentatives and a representative from the CAALL, who captured the lessons for ALLP. Teir meeting resulted in a lesson learned on the ALLP portal: LL_1109: Ensuring all stakeholders are integral to the decision-making process is part of the open, honest communication and teamwork essential for successful program execution.


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