Core Plus

Overview

Core Plus represents an enhanced career field certification and development framework designed to guide acquisition professionals to competency development beyond the minimum standards required for certification, based on specific types of assignments within an acquisition function/career field.  Core Plus is best illustrated as three concentric circles.

The center of the target, Core Acquisition Certification, represents the broad range of competencies that are common across the DOD AT&L workforce.  The inner ring, Core Functional Certification, represents those core specialized competencies that relate to one or more of the 14 acquisition career fields.  The Core Acquisition Certification and Core Functional certification competencies are required for career field certification.

The outer ring, Core Plus, represents additional training beyond that required for certification for specific types pf job assignments in a particular acquisition career field.

Core Plus will continue to evolve as the concept matures.  It is very a flexible, robust framework that is adaptable to the specific needs of the workforce.  Learning assets can be modularized to specifically target workforce requirements, just in time, and potentially delivered in a variety of different modes based on workforce members’ learning style and preference.