B2PCOE Overview

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B2PCOE Overview Kickoff Meeting
presented to COE Directors B2PCOE Team
Members
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Benchmarking Best Practices COE

MISSION The B2PCOE mission is to identify,
validate, and disseminate best in-class
practices, processes, methodologies, systems, and
technologies with the end objective of improving
the level of competitiveness, affordability and
performance of the defense industrial base,
defense platforms and weapons systems. VISION
The B2PCOE vision will to be a Department of
Defense resource for developing and sharing best
practice standards for mature manufacturing
technologies, stable and producible designs, and
mature production processes. ROLEThe role of
the B2PCOE is to collect data to identify and
validate best practice standards. B2PCOE will and
disseminate best practices by formally
integrating each ManTech Center of Excellence,
with small businesses, academia, and industry,
thus fostering high levels of horizontal
communication and collaboration. 
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Benchmarking Best Practices COE

Of the 72 programs GAO assessed this year, none
of them had proceeded through system development
meeting the best practices standards for mature
technologies, stable design, or mature production
processes by critical junctures of the program,
each of which are essential for achieving planned
cost, schedule, and performance
outcomes. GAO-08-467SP March 2008 DEFENSE
ACQUISITIONS Assessments of Selected Weapon
Programs
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Benchmarking Best Practices COE
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Benchmarking Best Practices COE
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Benchmarking Best Practices COE
B2PCOE Industrial Board Charter
The B2PCOE Industrial Board collaborates on
industry specific non-competitive and
pre-competitive activities through a
collaboration model that allows companies to
share Best Practices and leverage resources in
the collection, distribution, and integration of
Best Practices. The goal of this collaboration
is to provide a highly responsive and disciplined
environment to ensure that the alliances are
developed quickly when issues arise and to ensure
that the Best Practices will be shared and have a
direct benefit to the defense industry at
large. The B2PCOE Industrial Board will
facilitate the teaming of companies to
development these collaborative activities.
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Example Special Projects within the B2PCOE

• Energy Usage Ship Yard Cost Reduction
• Lead Free Manhattan Project (DoD Leverage)
• Friction Stir Welding Best Practices
• Best Practices for Assurance of Skilled Workers
• Navy Specific Welding Standard with AWS
• Best Practices in Ship System Integration
• Advanced Affordability Technologies for
  Submarines

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Open Discussion