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TEAM ENDEAVOR TSgt David Jackson, services KO with Regional Contingency Contracting Team H of the OSCJX-14, explains requirements for a particular service to fellow contracting specialist CPT Camille Morgan at Fort Bliss. The team was practicing operations to improve contracting processes for use after a natural disaster. (Photo by SGT Robert Golden)


Defense (OSD), via the Joint Staff Direc- torate of Logistics, sponsored the event.


OSCJX-14 participants included the U.S. Air Force; the U.S. Marine Corps; the U.S. Navy; Defense Contract Management Agency; Joint Staff Directorates of Logis- tics and Joint Force Development; U.S. Northern Command ( NORTHCOM); U.S. Army North; Office of the Dep- uty Assistant Secretary of the Army for Procurement; U.S. Army Sustainment, Contracting, and Mission and Installa- tion Contracting Commands; ECC; and the Contingency Acquisition Support Model (cASM) Program Office, which is maturing a tool to build ready-to-use requirement packages for acquisition and contracting personnel supporting the warfighter. Coalition members from France, Canada and the United King- dom also participated.


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Tis year, exercise participants pro- vided operational contract support for a NORTHCOM natural disaster training scenario, testing the procurement forces’ capability to respond to a major earth- quake damaging an eight-state region in the central United States. Te exercise helped prepare contracting professionals to deploy at a moment’s notice to sup- port any mission worldwide, whether the situation is a natural disaster or a man-made crisis.


WORKING SMARTER According to BG Michael D. Hoskin, ECC commanding general, “understand- ing that our defense enterprise as a whole and our Army in particular are facing an extremely challenging resource environ- ment, we are focused at increasing the capabilities of our organization rather than just focusing on its size.


“To continue to grow as an organization, we are fully committed to leveraging estab- lished and emerging contracting tools and technologies, as well as the most advanced training platforms. We are also commit- ted to ensuring that we have the processes in place to be a true learning organization. Because we execute contracting missions in more than 60 countries annually in support of all GCCs and Army service component commands, we need to con- stantly learn and propagate what we’ve learned across our entire organization. We’re going to have to work increasingly smarter as an organization to accomplish our expeditionary contracting missions in our emerging resource environment.”


Working smarter means training in the same environment as contracting profes- sionals would in the field and that means training in a joint environment.


Army AL&T Magazine


October–December 2014


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