BRING YOUR DATA


their jobs longer, and many are either eligible for retirement or nearing it.


What’s happening across the acquisition workforce is not neces- sarily happening to the engineering community. And if we break that down even further—maybe what’s happening at one of our centers of gravity like Aberdeen versus Huntsville—sometimes it’s different from the engineering community at large. You really have to think globally and act locally.


We in the Office of the Director for Acquisition Career Manage- ment and the U.S. Army Acquisition Support Center are trying, to the best of our ability, to work with those communities to allow them to help themselves. We are hardworking and dedicated, but we can’t figure out why, as an example, organization X doesn’t have the right skill set or competency for artificial intelligence. We need that organization to step up when a problem arises; there’s currently no way for us to drill down to see if that’s possi- ble. If they see that the problem is caused by a broader issue at the aggregate level, then we here at the Acquisition Support Center can try to help address that through a number of our programs.


But at the local level, we need them to bring that problem forward so we can try to help solve it. It might mean sending somebody to school. It might be developing a local training program. It might be using the Defense Acquisition Workforce Development Fund to hire an intern. Tere are lots of ways that we can assist.


We have good processes to evaluate and analyze their data, but we don’t typically have their data. We don’t have their insights or knowledge as to what’s going on. For as much effort as we put into strategic communications, I’m still constantly finding somebody who is surprised to learn that we can help them with an issue. Because the information we put out is abundant. It’s pervasive. It’s there for anybody who’s looking for it. Our website, asc.army.mil, is one-stop shopping. Almost everything that you could possibly need to know is there.


CONCLUSION It would be great if everybody had the time in their day to capture all the things that they’re doing to manage their talent and the lessons that they’ve learned, and write them down. But every day brings the next emerging challenge. It’s not because people don’t want to manage their talent or that they’re not dedicated to doing it. But everyone is constantly facing new challenges; it’s a matter of how you prioritize your time and effort.


But when you can take some time and put some thought into writing down what you’ve learned—about competency shortfalls, talent management, prioritizing lessons learned—so that we can populate a number of data sources, it helps everyone, not just you but all those around you. And the people who come behind you.


A one-stop shop for anything acquisition career-related. https://asc.army.mil/web/dacm-office/


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