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Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Workforce
Position Category Descriptions (PCDs)

     

This page last updated on September 23, 2010

Once a Department of Defense position (civilian or military) has been evaluated and it has been determined to be an acquisition position it must be assigned to one of the current acquisition career fields/paths.  This is done by associating those acquisition related duties/functions to the Position Category Description (PCD) that best describes the preponderance of those acquisition related duties/functions. 

Below are the currently approved PCDs. 

Review all changes since 12 March 2007

Short Title

Career Category Code

Job Specialty 1

Career Field/Path

 

 

 

AUD

U

 

Auditing

BUS-CE

P

 

Business - Cost Estimating

BUS-FM

K

 

Business - Financial Management

CON

C

 

Contracting

FE

F

 

Facilities Engineering

IND

D

 

Industrial and/or Contract Property Management

IT

R

 

Information Technology

LCL

L

 

Life Cycle Logistics

PM

A

 

Program Management

PM-IA

A

I

Program Management – International Acquisition

PQM

H

 

Production, Quality & Manufacturing

PUR

E

 

Purchasing

SPRDE-PSE

W

 

Systems Planning, Research, Development & Engineering – Program Systems Engineer

S&TM

I

 

Science & Technology Manager

SPRDE-SE

S

 

Systems Planning, Research, Development & Engineering – Systems Engineering

T&E

T

 

Test & Evaluation

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