SYNERGY IN SSCF The SSCF includes required certifications such as PMT 401, seamlessly integrating previous train- ing into a new product. (Photos courtesy of DAU South Region)
“We didn’t believe that Army civilians were getting an equivalent
senior-level
training package like their military coun- terparts,” said McCullough.
So when a low number of civilians applied for senior service college in 2006, the Army acquisition community took note.
“We weren’t giving our GS-15 and Senior Executive Service civilians the same executive-level training as their military counterparts and didn’t have enough seats to train, and even when we did, peo- ple were unwilling to leave their homes for a year,” said McCullough.
For most, attending senior service college required a move. Having just two choices of location—the Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, PA, and the Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Secu- rity and Resource Strategy (formerly the Industrial College of the Armed Forces), in Washington, DC—didn’t allow much flexibility. In addition, the senior service colleges allocated only six seats per year for civilians.
“We weren’t reaching the workforce,” McCullough said. “Te objective was,
‘Let’s go train the workforce where the workforce is.’ Tat’s really the motivation behind the [SSCF] program.”
A combined effort between DAU and USAASC led to a pilot program to bring the training to the civilians of the Army Acquisition Workforce. Te Hon. Claude M. Bolton Jr., then-Army acquisition executive, and LTG Joseph L. Yakovac Jr., then-director, AAC and military deputy to the assistant secretary of
the Army for acquisition, logistics
and technology (ASA(ALT)), approved the pilot SSCF program starting in July 2006 in Huntsville, AL. On the heels of this successful effort, Bolton expanded the program to Warren, MI, in 2007 and Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, in 2009.
Te results were significant. With the expansion to three additional locations, the SSCF program has produced more Army civilian leaders each year than all other senior service colleges combined, graduating 142 students to date.
“Te experience was in turn extremely informative,
exhilarating and
said Colleen Setili, a SSCF student who graduated in May.
Te fellowship programs can now train eight to 10 civilians per year in each location to develop as many as 24 to 30 civilians per year, providing significant leadership
growth Acquisition Workforce.
One of the tools making this possible at the three added locations is telepres- ence technology, “giving the in-class feel with instructors from remote locations,” McCullough said. Te technology, used in 30 percent of DAU classes, allows instructors to connect with students virtually with sophisticated video con- ferencing that integrates directly into the classroom. Te technology has increased accessibility to instructors without the cost of a traditional in-class- room presence.
However, despite this increased access, the fellowship program wasn’t a rec- ognized substitute among the service
tough,”
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