YOUR ACQUISITION CAREER MADE EASIER


FOSTERING PROFESSIONAL GROWTH


Among its many and varied roles, WMD is responsible for marketing training to the acquisition workforce. Here, Michael R. Hutchison, executive director of U.S. Army Contracting Command – Rock Island (IL) (ACC-RI), joins with ACC-RI contract specialists Julie Lawrence, left, and Mary Beth Landphair on Aug. 23, 2012, to celebrate their completing the Defense Civilian Emerging Leader Program. (Photo by Liz Adrian, U.S. Army Materiel Command)


AUTOMATED SYSTEMS Before 2007, “certifications were done basically manually,” Evans said. “Tey were mailed to us and then mailed or emailed to a certifying official, who then signed the documentation and mailed them back to us. Te process time was about anywhere from one to two months.” In 2007, the division automated the certification process.


Now, Army Acquisition Workforce members submit an application “that is


sent electronically with all


official, and if you’re a Department of the Army employee who is in an acqui- sition career field, those certifying officials look at their documentation. If you meet all the standards that are published by Defense Acquisition Uni- versity, you receive your certification electronically,” Evans


explained. Te


bottom line is that what used to take two months now takes about four hours. In FY12, the WMD processed 21,000 certification requests.


the sup-


porting documentation that’s already in CAPPMIS. Ten it hits a certifying


KNOWLEDGEABLE PEOPLE To run efficiently, automated systems need knowledgeable people behind them.


Evans and his staff cross-train, rotating in and out of different specialty areas, to gain and maintain familiarity with every acquisition career field and every kind of career management issue.


“You have to see the problems and questions, and you have to see the results in the documentation for certifications of Corps membership and waivers and fulfillments,” Evans said. “So what we try to do is rotate our career managers from a desk into another section of [WMD] about every 12 to 18 months. It also keeps them fresh … a career manager normally spins up in about


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