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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:

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.

Applications

AT&L Knowledge Management Systems (AKMS) applications.

 
 

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:

 

About this page...
This page is the career gateway page for business professionals. Here you will find information and links related to the business body of knowledge.
 
For more information, select any of the page thumbnails in the featured web part in the center of the page, or under “BCEFM” in the menu on the top-left.




 

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Feature - An Introduction to Business

Sharon Jackson, Director

Sharon Jackson
Director

Business — This career field encompasses all aspects of business and financial management. It includes cost estimating and analysis, financial planning, formulating financial programs, and budgets, budget analysis and execution, and earned value management. As advisors to commanders, program executive officers, program managers, or other acquisition decision makers, members of this career field are responsible for business financial management of defense acquisition programs in direct support of the defense acquisition process.

 

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