WORKFORCE REMARKABLE SERVICE
Spisak delivered comments to members of the Army Acquisition Workforce (AAW) at the AAW Summit in September 2017.
It’s important to remember that, as Jette put it, the director of acquisition career management (DACM) “really doesn’t own everything,” meaning that the personnel management actions Spisak generated required the approval of U.S. Army Human Resources Command and various selection boards, whose members may or may not appreciate the particular needs and requirements of an acquisition officer. “He’s done a great deal to try to keep all of that in play and balanced,” Jette said. “He’s a smart guy, he understands the environment and the people. And he goes and makes stuff happen.”
“Everything we’re doing today—Senior Service College Fellow- ship, Human Capital Strategic Plan, Naval Postgraduate School curriculum, Inspiring and Developing Excellence in Acquisition Leaders—these are all efforts that have been birthed during his tenure,” said Brian Winters, chief of proponency and analysis at USAASC. “Even with the existing programs in his tenure, he’s been a part of making them better aligned to acquisition objec- tives and keeping them current as the workforce changes, as a mission changes.”
How did Spisak accomplish so much?
With a talented, highly motivated team, a focus on the mission and a style uniquely his own.
TAKE THE MISSION AND RUN An engineer by training, Spisak has an instinct for taking things apart that left many in awe, and a memory that instilled caution in those who worked with him.
“He can walk into any room, understand the atmospherics in a room, understand who is in a room, and has the [sense] to be able to explain or articulate a position on any given matter in a coher- ent, clean and easy-to-understand way,” said Ostrowski. “Craig literally knew everything there was with respect to things that we asked him to do—the roles that we asked him to play, and the mission sets that we provided.”
When asked, Spisak invariably said yes, Ostrowski said. “Craig is the kind of person that would never turn down a challenge or
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