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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:

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

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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.

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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.

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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.
 
 

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Feature - Test & Evaluation Certification Guide Level I
Level I  |  Level II  |  Level III
Level I Certification Guide
Type of Assignment  Representative Activities
Headquarters and Staff (OSD, JS, COCOMs, JITC, SYSCOMS, etc.)   Supports research and development of T&E policy, practices, metrics, and procedures.
  Supports development of metrics (e.g., CTPs, MOEs, MOPs, COIs, success criteria) identification, direction, and guidance applicable to the Service/agency involvement in T&E.
  Supports T&E office representative to T&E meetings and other forums.
  Supports tracking/auditing of the T&E aspects of products/systems in the acquisition process.
  Supports development of the T&E career management plan for recruiting, training, and retaining a professional T&E workforce.
  Supports development and execution of T&E processes, standards, methods and techniques.
Program Management and Matrix Support   Supports the program’s T&E working-level IPT.
  Member of program's T&E team developing a test and evaluation strategy (TES) and a test and evaluation master plan (TEMP).
  Supports development of program’s test and evaluation strategy, approach, process, schedule, and resource requirements.
  Supports implementation of metrics (e.g., CTPs, MOEs, MOPs, COIs, success criteria) relative to product/system under test.
  Supports development of T&E materials and data for technical and progress reviews, to include risk assessment.
Range/Lab/Field Supporting Activities   Supports identification, process, schedule for T&E resources to include: work force, infrastructure, and budgets to support testing as expected for the respective facility.
  Supports facility test plan development.
  Assists in test execution, data collection, analysis, and reporting.
  Supports the maintenance of the physical facility, environment, and coordination of renovations and repairs as necessary.
  Assists in the execution of Service/agency or DoD Information Assurance (IA) and System Assurance (SA) testing.
 
Core Certification Standards (Required for DAWIA certification.)
 Acquisition Training   ACQ 101  Fundamentals of Systems Acquisition Management
 Functional Training   CLE 023  Modeling and Simulation for Test and Evaluation
  CLE 025  Information Assurance (IA)
  CLE 035  Introduction to Probability and Statistics
  SYS 101  Fundamentals of Systems Planning, Research, Development, and Engineering
  TST 102  Fundamentals of Test and Evaluation
 Education   Baccalaureate or graduate degree in a technical or scientific field such as engineering, physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, operations research, engineering management, or computer science.
 Experience   1 year of test and evaluation experience


Core Plus Development Guide (Desired training, education, and experience.) Type of Assignment
Training HQ and Staff PM/Matrix Spt Rg/Lab/Fld Spt Act
  CLE 004 Introduction to Lean Enterprise Concepts  
  CLE 015 Continuous Process Improvement Familiarization  
  IRM 101 Basic Information Systems Acquisition
Education
  None specified
Experience
  None specified
Notes:
1 The Core Certification Standards section lists the training, education, and experience REQUIRED for certification at this level.
2 “(R)” following a course title indicates the course is delivered as resident based instruction.
3 When preparing your IDP, you and your supervisor should consider the training, education, and experience listed in this Core Plus Development Guide if not already completed.
13 Some continuous learning (CL) modules have been created by extracting lessons in their entirety from a training course. If this is the case for the CL module(s) identified in the above core certification standards, the course from which the CL module was extracted is identified in the “Notes” section of the CL course description and the course can be substituted to meet the certification standard.