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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, leaderÂship training, overÂarching 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.
Communitiesof 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 andContinuous 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.
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Portals
Functional Gateways
Sixteen functional knowledge gateways, one for each of the defense acquisition career fields.
Special Topics
Links to gateways about important topics outside the general portals and beyond the standard career fields:
Welcome to Milestone Document Identification (MDID).
The Defense Acquisition System is the management process that guides all DoD acquisition programs. DoD Directive 5000.01, The Defense Acquisition System, provides the policies and principles that govern the defense acquisition system. DoD Instruction 5000.02, Operation of the Defense Acquisition System, in turn establishes the management framework that implements these policies and principles. The Defense Acquisition Management Framework provides an event-based process where acquisition programs proceed through a series of milestones associated with significant program phases. Details on the milestones and program phases are found in section 3 of the instruction. The instruction also identifies the specific statutory and regulatory reports and other information requirements for each milestone and decision point.
An approved business need that requires a materiel solution shall be divided into discrete, fully-funded, and manageable increments to facilitate development and implementation. Each increment shall be a useful and supportable operational capability that can be developed, tested, produced, deployed, and sustained. The principles of BCL can apply at the increment and at the release level. Thus, there may be multiple releases within an increment. Multiple increments may also be approved concurrently if they have well defined and approved requirements, are fully funded, have appropriate entrance and exit criteria, and the MDA’s Authorization to Proceed (ATP) is documented in an Acquisition Decision Memorandum (ADM).
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