CHANGING MISSION, CHALLENGING CLIMATE
that can dramatically affect our Nation’s ability to provide warfighters with mod- ern weapon systems needed to defend our national interests. After 11 consecu- tive years of downsizing, we face serious imbalances in the skills and experience of our highly talented and specialized civil- ian workforce. Further, 50 percent will be eligible to retire by 2005. In some occu- pations, half of the current employees will be gone by 2006.”
Army leaders at all levels, including the U.S. Army Materiel Command (AMC), the deputy assistant secretary of the Army for procurement and the U.S. Army Contracting Agency, finally real- ized it was time to do something, and quickly. Te National Defense Authori- zation Act for Fiscal Year 2008 directed the establishment of the Defense Acqui- sition Workforce Development Fund (DAWDF), which enabled DOD to recruit, hire, develop, train, recognize and retain its acquisition workforce.
One year later, the secretary of defense announced an initiative to grow the defense acquisition workforce by 20,000 positions by FY15. Te Army’s goal with regard to this initiative was to in-source more than 3,200 positions and hire 1,885 new government acquisition civil- ian personnel. Te DAWDF became the funding mechanism to “prime the pump” with regard to the new-hire initiative. An Army Acquisition Workforce Growth Task Force was established in January 2010 to capture specific organizational input with regard to the new hires.
FUELING THE FUTURE SGT Christina Dafney-Pressley, contracting officer’s representative for KBR fueling operations, talks with a fueler March 20 at Camp Bondsteel, Kosovo. Dafney-Pressley, the NCO-in-charge of the fuel point, is responsible for more than $500,000 worth of fuel on a weekly basis. Contract vehi- cles have become much more complex over the last 30 years. Regulations, policy and guidance have also increased considerably. (Photo by CPT Kevin Sandell, 11th Public Affairs Detachment)
Tus began the Army’s massive hir- ing campaign for new interns into the CP-14 contracting workforce. Whereas once even the best and brightest were lucky to be promoted to a GS-1102-12 contracting officer after about 20 years in contracting, many employees hired
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