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LEARN AND LEAD


Dewayne Anthony Grant is a retired Army helicopter mechanic turned procurement analyst for the Mission and Installation Contracting Command. In this role, he uses business intelligence tools—automated software that will collect, organize, visualize and analyze data—and other automated reporting systems to look at trend and spend analysis to promote strategic sourcing in order to obtain the best services and supplies in the industry to meet the warfighter’s needs.


“It’s important to understand what industry has to offer the Army to leverage the taxpay- ers’ dollars so that our warfighters have the best and most reliable services and supplies needed to complete any mission,” Grant said.


DEWAYNE ANTHONY GRANT


COMMAND/ORGANIZATION: Mission and Installation Contracting Command


TITLE: Procurement analyst YEARS OF SERVICE IN WORKFORCE: 7 YEARS OF MILITARY SERVICE: 23


DAWIA CERTIFICATIONS: DOD contracting professional


EDUCATION: M.S. in logistics and supply chain management, B.S. in professional aeronautics from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University


AWARDS: Civilian Service Achievement Medal (2021)


He chose the acquisition field because he was interested to understand the process of how Soldiers were receiving and acquiring supplies and services—something he was never privy to during his military service.


“Te greatest satisfaction in being part of the Army Acquisition Workforce is that I get to continue to serve like I did when I was on active duty, ensuring that Soldiers receive their needed services and supplies during peacetime to maintain their wartime capabilities that will allow them to fight and win on the battlefield,” he said. Grant retired in 2008 as a platoon sergeant with the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division.


He joined the Army Acquisition Workforce through the U.S. Department of State’s Recent Graduates Program, which provides developmental experiences in the federal government. He was hired through the federal government’s Internship Program as a contract specialist, which involved pre-award, post-award and closeouts of contracting actions. He said the most appealing thing about this role was the amount of research on regulations and policies—such as Defense and Army Federal Acquisition Regulations and supplements—the work entailed. Being informed about these regulations helped him to identify the best applicable contract vehicles for the resources he was responsi- ble to procure.


Known by others for being a persistent learner, when Grant was a mechanic on the UH-60 Black Hawk, for example, he loved researching to make sure his helicopter was performing to meet mission needs. “Acquisition affords me the same opportunity [to continuously learn],” he said.


“Once I graduated the intern program, I really knew this career field was for me,” Grant said. He completed the 24-month Internship Program in 2017 and said there is satis- faction in knowing that through his and his coworkers’ efforts, Soldiers and taxpayers are getting the best and most reliable supplies and services.


Te most important thing to Grant about the acquisition workforce is the ability to serve in numerous career field positions like cost and price, procurement analyst, contract


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Army AL&T Magazine


Spring 2023


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