A CONTRACT FOR THE FUTURE


CONTRACTING ON THE MOVE MAJ Francisco Mendoza, contracting team leader, 904th Contingency Contracting Battalion, Fort Knox, KY, briefs OCSJX 2014 trainees on the simulated convoy mission they are preparing to do in the Close Combat Tactical Trainer at Fort Bliss, TX, Jan. 18. OCSJX, ACC’s premier contracting exercise, has been elevated from an ACC-sponsored program to sponsorship by the Joint Chiefs of Staff J4. (Photo by SGT Robert Golden 16th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment)


premier contracting exercise, which has been elevated from an ACC-sponsored program to sponsorship by the Joint Chiefs of Staff J4.


“Te exercise’s growth and evolution over the past five years are a testament to the importance of contingency contracting in direct support to the warfighter,” Harrison said. Tis year’s exercise, a natural disaster scenario in the United States, involved more than 450 Soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines from the active, National Guard and reserve components, as well as participants from


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the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Te first exercise, in 2010, involved only 34 trainees.


Next year’s exercise will be led by the U.S. Air Force and will feature split operations at Fort Bliss, TX, and Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, HI, Harrison said.


VALUABLE, BUT HARD TO QUANTIFY It’s difficult to quantify the value that able contracting professionals bring to the Army, Hallock said. “I’ve been in this business 34 years now, and that has been


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an issue ever since I started: ‘What are the right metrics?’ And we constantly look at and experiment with metrics. And frankly, I don’t think we’ve got it right yet.”


Tat’s at least in part because it’s very hard to measure what doesn’t happen. Ask a lifeguard, “How many lives have you saved?” and if he or she says, “None,” it’s not because of doing the job poorly. It’s more likely that he or she has been doing the job exactly right. For Hallock, the biggest benefit of professionalism in contracting “is the money we save the U.S. government by doing the jobs we do.”


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