workforce trends and challenges for our leaders while providing career support to the Army Acquisition Workforce. According to Joan Sable, USAASC’s Acquisition Career Development Divi- sion chief and Army DACM Office team chief, the efforts of the Army DACM Office over the years have cultivated the proficiency of the workforce.


“As a result of the focus of the Army DACM Office on increasing the profes- sionalism of the acquisition workforce, the certification rate among the work- force is the highest in the 25-year history of the Army Acquisition Corps,” Sable said, with 97 percent certified or within the grace period for certification as of July 31.


Te DACM Office also maintains central


repository for all the acquisition


workforce members’ data via the Career Acquisition Personnel & Position Man- agement Information System, and is responsible


for ensuring adherence to


DAWIA statutory requirements for acquisition career field (ACF) certifica- tion and continuous learning.


PROPONENCY Te Army DACM Office provides a team of proponency officers who serve as advocates for ACFs and partner within the Army and DOD to ensure synergy among


acquisition functional areas.


Military proponency spans Functional Area 51 in the active and reserve compo- nents as well as the military occupational specialty (MOS) 51C in the NCO com- munity. In fact, since 2007, a year after 51C became a new MOS, Army DACM Office reclassification efforts have grown the MOS 51C NCO population from 63 to 474 at the end of FY13.


Te Army DACM Office appoints Army acquisition functional advisers (AAFAs)


who serve as subject-matter experts for their designated ACF and provide func- tional advice and recommendations to support education, training and career development programs for the acquisi- tion workforce. Together with the AAFAs, proponents participate in periodic DOD functional integrated product teams (FIPTs), advocating the Army’s position for acquisition career development. Te FIPT’s goal is to assist the USD(AT&L) ACF functional leaders with competen- cies, certification standards, professional currency and all other issues needed to ensure the most effective possible per- formance of the acquisition workforce. Proponency officers foster partnerships with the other services, represent the Army DACM, develop policies, conduct strategic analyses and promote career developmental training, quality educa- tion and professional experience for the acquisition workforce.


ACQUISITION EDUCATION DAWIA mandates


that acquisition


workforce personnel attain certification in their primary ACF by completing training provided by DAU. DAU quota managers (QMs) within the Army DACM Office process every DAU train- ing application submitted by members of the nearly 38,000-person acquisition workforce as well as any non-acquisi- tion Army civilian or service members requesting training.


“We owe a huge part of the great certi- fication compliance success to our few dedicated QMs. Without their hands-on application evaluation and processing, we would not have attained such high com- pliance rates over the past four years,” said Sable. “When someone applies for a class through our DAU online registration system, a QM reviews each application. Because of the various requirements of each class, applications still need that


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The DACM Office is responsible for ensuring adherence to DAWIA statutory requirements for ACF certification and continuous learning. (SOURCE: DAU)


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