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News, announcements, training, search functions, Ask-a-Professor, and similar services with direct links supporting DoD acquisition.

Acquisition Process

Three processes cooperate to deliver capabilities needed by warfighters: the requirements process (JCIDS); the acquisition process (DAS); and the program and budget development process (PPBE). Includes links to DoD and Service policies, guidance, tools, and resources:

Workforce

Information on career management, the DoD Human Capital Initiative, career planning, leader­ship training, over­arching planning and guidance documents, and relevant professional organizations.

Policy

Encyclopedic source of acquisition policy that follows a hierarchy of policy issuance (i.e., executive, legislative, federal, etc.) and filtered according to organization, career field, and special topics.

Communities
of Practice

Links to communities of practice and special interest areas, the latest contribution and discussion posts for open ACC communities, community highlights, and links to related communities.

Training and
Continuous Learning

Information on training and continuous learning that supports DoD acquisition, information that helps manage professional training portfolios, and information on training available from DAU and DoD and Services activities.

Industry

Information on DoD industry partners that helps the participation and execution of DoD processes; including industry support pages, news, information, and links to private sector acquisition contractors.
 
 

Functional Gateways

Fifteen functional knowledge gateways, one for each of the defense acquisition career fields.

Special Topics

Spcial Topics:

Better Buying Power
Mission Areas
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Better Buying Power

News, policy, and media that support greater value and efficiency in defense acquisition.
 
Workforce
Workforce Development
Acquisition Workforce Plan
Acquisition Workforce Quick View
DoD Legislation
Published AT&L Reports
AT&L Analysis
Human Capital Initiatives
Overview
Workforce Policy and Guidance
Career Management
Overview
Professional Organizations
Acquisition Career Gateways
Careers at DAU 
Director, Acquisition Career Management
Overview
Student Registration
Student Information 
DAU iCatalog 
Workforce Competency Management
Workforce Performance Management
AcqDemo
Overview
CCAS
Training

About this page...

This workforce page includes general DoD information and links about the acquisition workforce and personnel development:

  • What do they do?
  • Where do they work?
  • Job opportunities?

For more detailed topics, select any of the links in the “Workforce Development” menu at the top-left of the page.

Contact Us…

 

 

We welcome your feedback. Please send your questions, comments or contributions to this page to John Knox, OUSD(AT&L) Human Capital Initiatives (HCI) web portal POC at John.Knox@dau.mil.


 
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ATL - Workforce Quick View

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You need to know…

AT&L Goals

  1. High performing, agile, ethical workforce
  2. Strategic, tactical acquisition excellence
  3. Focused technology to meet warfighting needs
  4. Cost-effective Joint logistics support for the warfighter
  5. Reliable, cost-effective industrial capabilities that meet strategic objectives
  6. Improved governance, decision processes

DAU - Media Library

Defense Acquisition University HQ
This topic includes DAU Corporate information, events, capabilities, systems, and conferences that have been held or host at various campuses that are not specific to other functional areas.
USD (AT&L)
Offerings from the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics
Business, Cost Estimating, and Financial Management
This field encompasses all aspects of business financial management, including cost estimating, financial planning, formulating financial programs and budgets, budget analysis and execution, and earned value management.
Contracting
This field includes the positions of contract negotiation, administrator, termination specialist, price and/or cost analysis, procuring officer, contracting officer, and procurement analysts.
Earned Value Management
Earned value is a management technique that relates resource planning to schedules and to technical cost and schedule requirements.
Government Property Management
This field includes the industrial property management specialist, property administrator, industrial plant clearance specialist, plant clearance officer, and contract and industrial specialists.
Leadership
This topic covers a broad range of subjects relevant to acquisition leadership at all levels, such as acquisition strategies, lessons learned, ethics, management techniques, and recent initiatives that impact the acquisition workforce as a whole.
Lifecycle Logistics
Lifecycle Logistics – This field includes professionals responsible for planning, development, implementation, and management of an effective and affordable weapons, materiel, or information systems support strategies.
Production, Quality, and Manufacturing
Acquisition related manufacturing and production duties vary greatly in managerial, and administrative, and technical content, monitoring of the manufacturing and production efforts of contractors, quality assurance, quality standards, and controls.
Program Management
This field encompasses individuals concerned with the functions of a program management office (PMO) or a program executive office (PEO), including program integrators, analysts, PMOs, PEOs, and their deputies.
Science and Technology Management
This field encompasses scientific and engineering management of basic and applied research, and/or advanced technology development activities including acquiring the services of scientists, engineers, and technical support personnel to perform S&T work.
Software Acquisition Management
This field includes planning, organizing, monitoring, managing, overseeing, and/or performing research and engineering activities related to the design, development, installation, modification, sustainment, or analysis of systems or system components.
Systems Engineering
This field encompasses the technical effort to evolve and verify an integrated and total life-cycle balanced set of system, people, and process solutions that satisfy customer needs.
Test and Evaluation
This field encompasses the process by which a system or components are compared against requirements and specifications through testing. The results are evaluated to assess progress of design, performance, supportability, etc.