Certification & Core Plus Development Guides

CERTIFICATION STANDARDS & CORE PLUS DEVELOPMENT GUIDE
LIFE CYCLE LOGISTICS LEVEL III

Type of Assignment	Representative Activities
Acquisition Logistics	Leads/plans/develops effective and affordable weapons, materiel, or information systems support strategies. Ensures product support strategies meet program goals for operational effectiveness and readiness. Ensures supportability requirements consistent with cost, schedule, and performance are addressed. Plans and develops performance-based logistics as preferred DoD product support approach. Ensures integration of all support elements to maximize system deployability, supportability, and mobility.
Sustainment	Leads, plans and executes effective and affordable weapons, materiel, or information systems support of fielded and/or out-of-production systems, including obsolescence management, modernization/ modification, sustaining engineering, workload allocation, public-private partnerships, supply chain management, and/or system retirement. Executes and manages performance-based logistics support strategy, ensuring system performance requirements are met.

Core Certification Standards (required for DAWIA certification)
Acquisition Training	No additional requirements
Functional Training	LOG 340 Life Cycle Product Support (R) LOG 350 Enterprise Life Cycle Logistics Management (R) CLL 005 Developing a Life Cycle Sustainment Plan (LCSP) CLL 015 Product Support Business Case Analysis (BCA) CLL 020 Independent Logistics Assessments And one of the following: ACQ 265 Mission-Focused Services Acquisition (R) BCF 215 Operating and Support Cost Analysis (R) LOG 204 Configuration Management RQM 110 Core Concepts for Requirements Management
Education	Formal education not required for certification.
Experience	4 years of life cycle logistics experience in an acquisition and/or sustainment organization

Core Plus Development Guide (desired training, education, and experience)	Type of Assignment
Training	Acquisition Logistics	Sustainment
ACQ 265 Mission-Focused Services Acquisition (R)
ACQ 450 Leading in the Acquisition Environment (R)
ACQ 451 Integrated Acquisition for Decision Makers (R)
ACQ 452 Forging Stakeholder Relationships (R)
CLB 011 Budget Policy
CLB 016 Introduction to Earned Value Management
CLC 051 Managing Government Property in the Possession of Contractors
CLC 055 Competition Requirements
CLE 011 Modeling and Simulation for Systems Engineering
CLL 003 Supportability Test and Evaluation
CLL 007 Lead Free Electronics Impact on DoD Programs
CLL 016 Joint Logistics
CLL 018 Joint Deployment Distribution Operations Center (JDDOC)
CLL 026 Depot Maintenance Capacity Measurement
CLL 054 Joint Task Force Port Opening (JTF-PO)
CLL 055 Joint Deployment & Distribution Performance Metrics Framework
CLL 201 Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages (DMSMS) Fundamentals
CLL 203 Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages (DMSMS) Essentials
CLL 204 Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages (DMSMS) Case Studies
CLL 205 Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages (DMSMS) for Technical Professionals
CLL 206 Introduction to Parts Management
CLM 014 IPT Management and Leadership
CLM 017 Risk Management
CLM 035 Environmental Safety and Occupational Health—Lesson from PMT 352A
CLM 038 Corrosion Prevention and Control Overview
CLM 044 Radio Frequency Identification
CLM 047 Fiscal and Physical Accountability and Management of DoD Equipment
CLM 200 Item-Unique Identification
CLR 250 Capabilities-Based Assessment
CON 237 Simplified Acquisition Procedures
HBS 401 Budgeting
HBS 407 Crisis Management
PMT 202 Multinational Program Management (R)
PMT 352A Program Management Office Course, Part A
PMT 352B Program Management Office Course, Part B (R)
PQM 301 Advanced Production, Quality, and Manufacturing (R)
RQM 403 Requirements Executive Overview Workshop (R)
SYS 203 Intermediate Systems Planning, Research, Development, and Engineering, Part II (R)
TST 303 Advanced Test and Evaluation (R)

Education

Master’s degree in a logistics, business, management, or technical field, such as systems design and operational effectiveness, or similar systems engineering/ technical education, business administration, and/or supply chain management

Joint Professional Military Education (JPME) such as the Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy

Experience

8 years of life cycle logistics experience in support of acquisition or sustainment of DoD weapons/ materiel systems

Notes:

1 The Core Certification Standards section lists the training, education, and experience REQUIRED for certification at this level.
2 “(R)” following a course title indicates the course is delivered as resident based instruction.
5 When preparing your IDP, you and your supervisor should consider the training, education, and experience listed in the Core Plus Development Guide at this and the lower level(s) if not already completed.

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