CAREER CORNER USAASC PERSPECTIVE FROM THE DIRECTOR, U.S. ARMY ACQUISITION SUPPORT CENTER
ACHIEVING CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS is SERIOUS BUSINESS
M
y two top priorities as the Deputy Director, Acquisition Career Man- agement (DDACM) are
monitoring the certification rates of the Army Acquisition Workforce to ensure that statutory requirements are met, and seeing that we have the best-prepared professionals working in the acquisition system to deliver the best weapons, infor- mation systems and services to our men and women in uniform.
I’m proud to say that our certification rate within the grace period came from a low of 78.4 percent in FY08 to our cur- rent rate (in September) of more than 94 percent. (See Figure 1.) Tis uptick in the rate comes from our committed acquisi- tion professionals and their supervisors, who are meeting the Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA) certification standards.
But there’s still work to be done. We have a delinquency rate of 5.5 percent; that is the percentage of the workforce who are overdue in their statutorily required certification. Tough this rate is down from 8.1 percent in December 2012, my ultimate goal is to maintain an Army Acquisition Workforce that is 100 percent certified or within the grace period.
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command or organization must submit a position requirement waiver request, signed by the most senior leader, through the Career Acquisition Management Por- tal at
https://rda.altess.army.mil/camp/. Te application must include the follow- ing, in detail:
Craig A. Spisak Director, U.S. Army Acquisition Support Center
THE PURPOSE OF WAIVERS Each individual assigned to an acqui- sition-coded
position must meet position certification requirements
the for
his or her acquisition career field (ACF) within an allotted grace period; for most, it’s a 24-month window. Before applying for DAWIA certification, he or she must meet the acquisition training, education and experience standards for the position, including keeping the individual develop- ment plan current, staying on track with continuous learning points
(CLPs) (80
every two years) and taking the required Defense Acquisition University (DAU) certification classes for the ACF.
If certification is not accomplished within the grace period, the employee’s
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Why the organization is requesting the waiver (what is lacking in the individ- ual’s education, training or experience for certification).
A target date to meet requirements (normally not to exceed 12 months).
Who will monitor the individual to ensure that standards are met in the requested time frame, with any sup- porting
documents including DAU
transcripts, Army DAU registration sys- tem screen shot of preregistered classes (
https://atrrs.army.mil/CHANNELS/ AITAS/), individual development plan and résumé.
Te waiver then comes to me for consider- ation, and approval is not automatic. From Oct. 1, 2012, to July 31, 2013, we pro- cessed 177 waivers, with 95 approved, 29 denied and 53 returned when documen- tation was incorrect or the individual’s command or organization changed its decision and withdrew the request. Te approved waiver extends the grace period, but it does not waive the certification
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