A CHANCE TO THINK


Acquisition Workforce Professional Development Opportunity EARN CLPs by discussing case studies based on real defense acquisition programs


Sponsored by your PEO and offered by the Naval Postgraduate School


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Joint Common Missile Case Study Case study facilitator: Dr. Bob Mortlock, Col. (USA, Ret.), CMBA, PMP, PE, Naval Postgraduate School COMING TO AN INSTALLATION NEAR YOU?


Mortlock hopes to take his case-study class to PEO STRI, PEO GCS and PEO EIS again next year, and to other PEOs as well.


the PEOs, Mortlock is reviewing case studies with acquisition workforce professionals.


“Te civilian acquisition workforce is so diverse, so experienced,” he said. “And so when you get those folks in a room together, it’s really incredible to see the dynamics. Some folks are just new. And some folks are very experienced. And to see them working on the same case study and giving different perspectives on the same case study ... In these cases studies there’s no right answer, usually, and that’s what makes it really interesting. Because they can learn from each other.”


Judith A. Gachupin, strategic planner for the Project Manager for Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle within PEO GCS, took Mort- lock’s class at Warren. “Te studies provided insight into how the DOD [Instruction 5000.02] and acquisition management has changed over the years,” she said. “What was not even a consid- eration six to eight years ago is now possible today, as we work to ‘lean’ our processes and look at alternate solutions to speed up the acquisition process.”


She added: “Tis training was different, as we were using real program data versus a made-up training scenario. Te real data brings a better sense of reality to the discussion and more clearly portrays the impact of the decisions we make as acquisition developers.”


Mortlock is hoping the three PEOs will invite him back next year, where he’ll introduce some new case studies and maybe help them develop a case study on a program specific to the PEO. “And maybe next year I get a few other PEOs to jump on.”


For more information, contact Mortlock at rfmortlo@nps.edu.


MICHAEL BOLD provides contract support to the U.S. Army Acquisition Support Center. He is a writer-editor for Network Runners Inc., with more than 30 years of editing experience at newspapers, including the McClatchy Washington Bureau, Te Sacramento Bee, the San Jose Mercury News, the Dallas Morning News and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He holds a Bachelor of Journalism from the University of Missouri.


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