2023 Day 2 Session 6B - Life Cycle Sustainment Plan (LCSP) 3.0 Updates and Impacts

Paul "Smitty" Smith, DAU-S Professor of Life Cycle Logistics, provided a top-level trace of how the updated LCSP V3.0 aligns with updated statutes, policy, and the Adaptive Acquisition Framework (AAF) changes since 2017.  Mr. Smith emphasized key take aways to include: intent of all LCSPs is they are tailorable to each program and AAF pathway, importance of critical thinking, importance of LCSPs to acquire and support systems that provide affordable readiness, Life Cycle Logisticians need to be involved in the acquisition process up front and early and, the need for the LCSP to be reviewed and updated throughout the life cycle to meet Warfighter supportability requirements.  DAU-S Processor of Logistics Robert "Bob" Hannah curated the discussion and question and answer session, reinforcing the criticality of Product Support and the LCSP.