Course description
This course can be taken in-person or online and focuses on understanding, establishing and executing a performance-based life cycle product support strategy. It is based on research sponsored by Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Pratt & Whitney and Raytheon. The course is intended for corporate managers working with defense department counterparts.
Key Objectives
Through the integration of classroom instruction and discussion, complemented by real-world examples, these are the key takeaways and capabilities we want you to have:
- Understand the “how and why” that leads to success with performance-based product support (a win-win construct) enabled by industry profit incentives and government performance improvements combined with long-term cost reduction
- Understand the government budget, funding, availability, and sustainment environment and challenges that can prompt government willingness to consider PBL
- Exploration of how PBL is a capture tool with many degrees of freedom that can lead to more profitable contracts, for both new and legacy programs
- Familiarity with the government statutory, policy, and guidance supporting and constraining the use of PBL
- Exploration of how PBL can be thought of as a contractor-managed DoD supply chain, inclusive of inventory management, maintenance and repair, transportation, reliability improvement, sustainability engineering, and technical support
- Awareness of the advantages of PBL for both the customer and supplier in comparison with traditional product support methods and strategies
- A thorough understanding of business arrangements including roles, responsibilities, relationships, statutory requirements, risk allocation, work allocation, constraints, enablers, and the associated contracting types, terms, and conditions that enable success
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Who should attend?
- Primary audience: Aerospace/Defense industry. OEMs and their subcontractor partners motivated to capture and implement outcome-oriented life cycle support strategies for complex systems.
- Secondary audience: Department of Defense Acquisition, Technology, Logistics, and Contracting professionals (program managers, product support managers, contracting officers, logistics and sustainment managers, and acquisition professionals).
Training content
- Customized 1- to 5-day PBL programs for organizations, internationally
- Customized PBL workshops
- PBL executive overviews
- PBL consulting
- PBL speaking engagements at conferences
Course delivery details
Once there is a cohort, a course will be scheduled. Online courses last 5 days (23 hours), with three 5-hour days of classes and two 4-hour days of group work. Customized solutions can vary.
This course is offered online, at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, or a location of your choice.
The online course (presented using Zoom) has been designed to ensure the active involvement of all participants so that they can apply what they learn to current or prospective contracts when the course concludes. A balance of theory and application is provided through lectures, question/answer sessions, case studies, and small-group exercises – three 5-hour days of instruction plus two 4-hour days of small-group activities. In addition, to complement the group instruction and activities, each participant gets to spend an hour with the instructors following the course to discuss issues specific to his or her environment.
Costs
In person:
$4,200
$2,100 – Repeating the course
Cost of the Knoxville program includes most meals, single-room hotel lodging, on-campus transportation, materials/simulations, and professional educational credits where applicable. Preferred pricing is available for multiple attendees from the same organization and alumni of the Executive-Level MBA programs.
Online:
$3,500
$1,750 – Repeating the course
Cost of the program includes a one-hour call with the instructors following the course to discuss issues specific to his or her environment. Preferred pricing is available for multiple attendees from the same organization and alumni of the Executive-Level MBA programs.
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The University of Tennessee Knoxville | Haslam College of Business
Founded in 1794, UT is big on tradition, and we are proud of our humble beginnings as the first public university chartered west of the Appalachian Divide. UT Knoxville — which includes the UT Space Institute — serves the state...