WORKFORCE


POINT TAKEN


Dr. Bruce D. Jette, assistant secretary of the Army for acquisi- tion, logistics and technology and the Army acquisition executive, addressed a wide variety of topics regarding the state of Army acquisition during a town hall in November at Fort Belvoir. One of the topics was the Army’s need to manage data better, specif- ically data on the Army Acquisition Workforce. (Photo by Cecilia Tueros, Program Executive Office for Enterprise Information Systems)


Once the assessment analysis is complete and the functional leaders know where the skill gaps are, they can help the DACM Office develop ways to provide education, training or experiential assignments to fill those gaps.


To be sure, developing a data system that could capture all of the dimensions of tens of thousands of acquisition work- force members—to say nothing of the other data that the Army would like to capture—would be exceedingly difficult. Te acquisition career field categories are broad. For example, how many types of engineering are there? Within each engi- neering discipline—electrical, chemical, energetic materials, civil and so on— how many variations? How many years of experience does a particular engineer have? How much training under the Defense Acquisition Workforce Improve- ment Act (DAWIA)? What other skills or


knowledge might add to that employee’s abilities? So, in addition to developing a system to catalog and store such data, it first has to be gathered.


INFO QUEST Te Army DACM Office is already hot on the trail of that second- and third-order information, an effort that began when it launched round one of the Competency and Career Development Assessment in 2017 to address gaps in the workforce’s skills and knowledge.


Joan Sable has been with USAASC for almost 20 years and took her current


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