TOOLS FOR TALENT
FIGURE 1 Student Loan Repayment Program • $4 million annually.
• Over 400 acquisition professionals participate annually.
• Repays up to $10,000 of federally insured student loans.
• Requires a continued service agreement, to remain in the Army Acquisition Workforce for three years.
DAWDF RECOGNITION AND RETENTION INCENTIVES
The FY17 Defense Acquisition
• May be used to support the execution of servicewide talent management and development programs such as centralized selection of key leadership positions and senior-level education programs.
Workforce Development Fund plan included $4.4 million for retaining and recognizing excellence in the acquisition workforce.
• Supports outreach events to attract the best and brightest at universities and colleges.
• Helps fund efforts to attract minorities to acquisition (League of United Latin American Citizens, Blacks in Government, Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Conference, Latinos in Engineering and Science).
Permanent change of station payments Outreach events and job fairs Acquisition awards • $30,000 annually.
• Recognizes Army group and individual award winners at the DOD acquisition awards ceremony.
• Helps defray costs of ASA(ALT) acquisition awards ceremony.
EXCELLENCE PAYS DIVIDENDS
A mainstay of the incentives available to recruit and retain members of the Army Acquisition Workforce, DAWDF sustains the Student Loan Repayment Program—budgeted at $4 million of $4.4 million in FY17 money for DAWDF incentives—among other tools it funds to attract talent and encourage and reward excellence. (SOURCE: U.S. Army Director of Acquisition Career Management Office)
the government versus a big defense company, the odds are that industry can afford to pay somebody more than we can. And the odds are that industry can execute hiring, relocation and other things faster than we can. So we have to make sure that we don’t put up unnecessary obstacles beyond existing regulations and policies.
We need to accentuate what we offer people that others can’t: the value of being a public servant and of working for DOD; the type of work we do; the fact that people who come into this business get an opportunity early on to assume more author- ity and responsibility than they would in private industry. And that a lot of what we do is truly unique work that they can’t do elsewhere. So use the authorities and the incentives that are in place—and don’t get in your own way.
Te Defense Acquisition Workforce Development Fund (DAWDF) provides some incentives we can offer our work- force. (See Figure 1.) A tremendous part of that is the Student
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Loan Repayment Program. Over 90 percent of those who’ve been in the program remain in the workforce beyond their required three-year commitment. Tat’s a remarkable success rate that we can all be proud of and point to when telling our story about why everyone should strive to join our team.
But recruitment and retention are not always about money. Quite often, people aren’t looking for some great monetary reward. At the end of the day, one of our best tools for moti- vating that talent and garnering great performance from the workforce is really just a little bit of recognition.
It doesn’t cost you anything more than time to give recog- nition. And it doesn’t cost you more than time and effort to nominate people for awards given throughout the year: the Army Acquisition Executive’s Excellence in Leadership Awards; the Secretary of the Army Excellence in Contract- ing Awards; and the David Packard Excellence in Acquisition Award from the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for
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