PBL GUIDE - PERFORMANCE BASED LOGISTICS (PBL): A PROGRAM MANAGER’S PRODUCT SUPPORT GUIDE (MAR-2005) [S/S BY PRODUCT SUPPORT MANAGER (PSM) GUIDEBOOK DATED APRIL 2011]

PBL GUIDE - PERFORMANCE BASED LOGISTICS (PBL): A PROGRAM MANAGER’S PRODUCT SUPPORT GUIDE (MAR-2005) [S/S BY PRODUCT SUPPORT MANAGER (PSM) GUIDEBOOK DATED APRIL 2011]., This document supersedes Product Support for the 21st Century: A Program Manager’s Guide to Buying Performance, published in November 2001, which has been commonly known as ‘The PBL Guide.’ Performance Based Logistics: A Program Manager’s Product Support Guide captures the progress that has been made in implementing PBL over the past three years and presents up-to-date guidance based on the lessons learned from the application of PBL to support activities throughout the Armed Services. Performance Based Logistics (PBL) is the preferred Department of Defense (DoD) product support strategy to improve weapons system readiness by procuring performance, which capitalizes on integrated logistics chains and public/private partnerships. The cornerstone of PBL is the purchase of weapons system sustainment as an affordable, integrated package based on output measures such as weapons system availability, rather than input measures, such as parts and technical services. The Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) and the Defense Planning Guidance (DPG) directed the application of PBL to new and legacy weapons systems. PBL Implementation is also mandated by DoD Directive 5000.1, The Defense Acquisition System, May 12, 2003. This guide is a tool for Program Managers (PMs) and Product Support Managers (PSMs) as they design product support strategies for new programs or major modifications, or as they re-engineer product support strategies for existing fielded systems. It presents a method for implementing a PBL product support strategy. PBL delineates outcome performance goals of systems, ensures that responsibilities are assigned, provides incentives for attaining these goals, and facilitates the overall life cycle management of system reliability, supportability, and total ownership costs. It is an integrated acquisition and logistics process for providing weapons system capability. Designing and Assessing Supportability In DoD Weapon Systems: A Guide to Increased Reliability and Reduced Logistics Footprint (commonly referred to as the ‘Supportability Guide’), October 24, 2003, is the DoD document that defines a framework for determining and continuously assessing system product support throughout the life cycle. It uses the Defense Acquisition Management Framework (as defined in DoD 5000 series policy) and systems engineering processes to define appropriate activities and required outputs throughout a system’s life cycle to include those related to sustainment of fielded systems. A System Operational Effectiveness (SOE) framework is included that shows the linkage between overall operational effectiveness and system and product support performance. This is accomplished through the application of a robust life cycle systems engineering process to identify and continuously assess supportability requirements for the system.