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FIGURE 1 Practical


Source of timely and relevant real-world acquisition lessons learned and best practices


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Enhance the performance of the Army’s project management offices.


THINKING SHORT AND LONG TERM


The ALL mission has both a practical and a strategic focus: to gather and share lessons learned, and to identify trends and best practices that could benefit the Army acquisition enterprise. (SOURCE: Kevin Guite, AMSAA)


Lessons learned about already fielded systems could yield improvements


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the earlier phases of system development. Impacts from adjusting requirements, additional test and evaluation (T&E), or improved reliability planning would be excellent lessons from these later acquisi- tion phases that would benefit planning for current or future systems. Te ALLP has several lessons learned from surge recovery and retrograde operations in the- ater that address planning for continuous configuration control board discussions, the benefit of Army field support brigades in getting products to the users, and the need for dedicated government contract- ing officer’s representatives on forward operating bases.


325 USERS AND COUNTING


Since the ALLP became operational on Oct. 1, 2012, it has gained more than 325 registered users and gathered more than 300 individual acquisition lessons. (SOURCE: Kevin Guite, AMSAA)


Currently, the greatest numbers of lessons by category are in program management and documentation and reviews, followed by program requirements, contracting, and T&E. In the program management cat- egory, for example, submissions describe lessons


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Requirements derived by PEO community


ALLP PORTAL


Strategic


Independent analyses focused on systemic Army acquisition challenges


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Influence Army acquisition policies, planning and decisions.


cost savings over the life cycle of a system, thanks to reliability improvements. A 10 percent improvement in reliability can equate to hundreds of millions of dollars in savings. In another example, increasing the number of test articles can reduce the time frame required for test completion. Cost avoidance of more than $530,000 has been reported in this case, as well as a 31-week reduction in test duration.


Submissions collected in ALLP, which are grouped by category to aid in search- ing and trend analysis, focus primarily on real-world lessons learned, from pre- Milestone (MS) A events to production decisions at MS C. However, the ALL team is actively encouraging those with lessons learned in the production and deployment phase and the operations and support phase to share them.


October–December 2013


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