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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:
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.
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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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AT&L Knowledge Management Systems (AKMS) applications.
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Functional Gateways
Sixteen functional knowledge gateways, one for each of the defense acquisition career fields.
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Links to gateways about important topics outside the general portals and beyond the standard career fields:
Bill Kobren Director Logistics & Sustainment Center
Workforce members often ask us what drives Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA) certification training requirements. As a public service, wanted to share a few insights. First and foremost, it is important to understand that each defense acquisition workforce career field Functional Leader (in most instances a senior executive-level career field functional expert from the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) staff), advised by a Functional Integrated Process Team (or FIPT) comprised of Service/Agency and DoD functional and Defense Acquisition Career Manager (DACM) representatives, is responsible for establishing and validating career field competencies and DAWIA certification training requirements. Additionally, those changes result from a myriad of factors, including (but not limited to):
· Changes to or new Federal Law/Statute (e.g., 10 USC 2337)
· Changes to the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and/or the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS)
· Changes to or new DoD policy (e.g., November 2013 Interim DoD Instruction 5000.02)
· Changes to or new DoD guidance (e.g., updates to the Defense Acquisition Guidebook (DAG), issuance of the new Performance Based Logistics (PBL) Guidebook, the updated MIL-HDBK 502A, etc.)
· DoD Policy Initiatives (e.g., Better Buying Power, or the 2009 Product Support Assessment)
· Career Field Functional Leader/ Functional IPT-directed changes
· New or updated Career Field Competencies, or requirements to address competency gaps
· Component-requested changes as approved by the Functional Leader
Bottom-line is DAWIA certification changes are requirements/competency-driven and Functional Leader-directed/approved.
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