Education & Training

SSA is working to advance the state-of-the-practice of software engineering education and training within the Defense Acquisition Community. As part of this effort, SSA is:

• Working as a member of the Software Acquisition Training & Education Working Group (SATEWG), mandated by the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (USD(AT&L)), to affirm required software competencies and identify gaps in Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA) curricula across all 13 Department of Defense (DoD) acquisition career fields.
• Collaborating with the Defense Acquisition University (DAU) to update a series of DAU basic, intermediate, and advanced Software Acquisition Management (SAM) courses, as well as actively supporting DAU's Acquisition Community Connection (ACC) SAM special interest area as a resource to bring professionals in the SAM field together to interact and share lessons learned.
• Sponsoring the iSSEc (integrated Software and Systems Engineering curriculum) Project, a joint effort with academia to enhance formal software engineering (SwE) education.

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