WORKFORCE


FIGURE 1


You and your direct supervisor are now in the driver’s seat.


of what I already knew or had learned in previous courses. It seemed a refresher of training content became more and more necessary as we changed jobs—our minds a bit fuzzy on all the content we learned in that ACQ 101 class so many years ago.


HOW IT’S GOING Back-to-Basics was the first major reform of the defense acquisition management framework since my time as a captain back in the 1990s, and it was a necessary one.


The Army continues to face limited resources, especially training resources. But more importantly, this transition serves as a reminder of what’s important with regard to individual and workforce professional development.


Under the previous system, I think people lost sight of what was truly important, and sometimes confused certification with qualification. Acquisition courses and certifications alone didn’t make me a good program manager—that was the result of my overall education, the totality of the institutional learning, the contin- uous learning offered through DAU and other sources, my on-the-job experiences, and the lessons learned and professional connections I made that really prepared me to advance and take on more respon- sibility. (See Figure 2.)


FUNCTIONAL AREAS


The six functional areas of the Back-to-Basics framework are business financial management and cost-estimating; test and evaluation; life-cycle logistics; contracting; engineering and technical management; and program management. (Graphics by USAASC)


FIGURE 2


ALL THE RIGHT MOVES


The new Back-to-Basics framework changes certification requirements to functional qualifications in a reduced number of acquisition career fields to help streamline training and emphasize competence over the rote and repetitive memorization.


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