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Product Support
A Primer on Risks, Issues and Opportunities
Thomas L. Conroy II, Ed. D.
Root cause analysis gets to the heart of a risk and determines why it exists, its nature, how it will occur, and what should be done about it.
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From the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics:
Improving Acquisition From Within
― Suggestions From Our PEOs
Frank Kendall
Acquisition News Topics
In the News
Spotlight on DAU Learning Resources
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Conferences, Workshops, & Symposia
Acquisition & Logistics Excellence
AT&L Workforce—Key Leadership Changes
Surfing the Net
Robust, Replicable and Defensible Risk Management
― At Headquarters or the Front
Eugene A. Razzetti
Proper risk management permits decision making based on realistic scenario assumptions and defensible justification.
Supply Chain Risk Management
― An Introduction to the Credible Threat
Heath Ferry and Van Poindexter
Some of the same advanced communications technologies that make our lives easier also could leave us wide open to a cybersecurity breach.
Intellectual Innovation
― A Paradigm Shift in Workforce Development
Michael Cook
Technology and innovation drive the personnel challenge of organizations to recruit and retain employees who can respond to their missions and operational requirements.
MDAP/MAIS Program Manager Changes 
Recent changes in program managers for major defense acquisition programs (MDAPs) and major automated information system (MAIS) programs.
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(link to MDAP_MAIS Changes.pdf)
Twenty Observations on Innovation
Jeff Windham
Innovation still is possible in the government, even if it is more difficult than in the private sector. Some observations are offered for leaders and innovators inside the Defense Acquisition System.
DAT&L SURVEY
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YOU THINK!
What’s Your Acquisition EQ?
Owen Gadeken
Seeking a better handle on the human element, the Defense Acquisition University (DAU) recently incorporated a new emotional intelligence tool to enhance the workforce “Emotional Quotient (EQ).”
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(link to Survey.pdf)
Asking the Right Questions
― Action Learning and PMT 401
Bobbie DeLeon and Christopher Phillips
The DAU Program Manager’s Course is intensive, case-based and 10 weeks long and aims at improving leadership, critical thinking, problem solving and decision making. Here is how it works.
Defense AT&L has become an online-only magazine for individual subscribers.
Turning Words Into Action
― Confronting Acquisition Challenges
Maj. Jamie J. Johnson, USAF, Ph.D.
Warfighters who operate fielded systems continue finding new uses never imagined by designers, and feedback on these findings can prove widely useful.
Improving Competition
― Reforming the Requirements Process
Roy Wood, Ph.D.
Internal competition above the prime contractor level is an option for cost control, given our shrinking industrial base.
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(link to onlineAD-DAT&L_May_June pdf)
DAU Mobile
Crash Course for IT Newbies
― Some Have Automated Information Systems Thrust Upon Them
Oliver Easterday
Some lessons are learned the hard way by those who manage Department of Defense automated information systems and technology.
Asia Pivot: The U.S.-India Defense Initiative
― A New Standard for Improved Cooperation and Trade
Amit K. Maitra
Objectives and means need to be defined in pursuing the common interests of India and the United States in South Asia and the Indian Ocean.
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(link to DAU Mobile Ad.pdf)