{"id":5669,"date":"2007-06-14T15:52:32","date_gmt":"2007-06-14T15:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lexingtoninstitute.org\/?p=5669"},"modified":"2013-11-14T15:56:09","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T15:56:09","slug":"pbl-a-success-story-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lexingtoninstitute.org\/pbl-a-success-story-2\/","title":{"rendered":"PBL: A Success Story"},"content":{"rendered":"
Performance-Based Logistics (PBL) is the purchase of support as an integrated, affordable, performance package designed to optimize system readiness and meet performance goals through long-term support arrangements with clear lines of authority. PBL may be applied to defense systems, subsystems, secondary items, components, assemblies, sub-assemblies or business processes.<\/p>\n
By shifting the logistics focus to whole platforms, total life-cycle management, performance results, rapid deployment, flexibility and sustainability and reliability of weapons and war-fighter support, PBL involves large scale transformations and
\nIt is clear that PBL can have a dramatic impact on both the cost and performance of sustainment and support activities. There are numerous and growing examples of the ways in which Performance-Based Agreements (PBA) are helping to transform the military\u2019s supply chain. Among the now many examples of successful PBAs are:<\/p>\n
There is also a need to educate contract officers and finance officials regarding the permissible scope of PBAs. There is a level of ignorance or willful blindness regarding PBLs that is rather inexplicable considering that the program has been officially sanctioned by DoD since 2000.<\/p>\n
DoD needs to accelerate the process of converting weapons systems support activities to PBAs. Legal, regulatory and contracting barriers to PBAs need to be removed. In addition, DoD needs to educate its procurement officials on ways of implementing the PBL strategy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Performance-Based Logistics (PBL) is the purchase of support as an integrated, affordable, performance package designed to optimize system readiness and meet performance goals through long-term support . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n