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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.
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.
Applications
AT&L Knowledge Management Systems (AKMS) applications.
Displays tabs for additional AT&L Special Topics Gateways:
And popular AT&L Career Fields Gateways:
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:
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 of 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.