CAREER NAVIGATOR


POWER TO THE PEOPLE


Back- to-Basics puts the power of training in the hands of the employee.


by Jacqueline M. Hames C 80 hange is coming.


Since September 2020, when the Hon. Ellen M. Lord, former undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment, issued the memorandum “ ‘Back-to- Basics’ for the Defense Acquisition Workforce,” we’ve been hearing about the


Back-to-Basics program. Its goal is to create streamlined training requirements and increased opportunity for workforce members to receive targeted career development and job-relevant training when they need it. In other words, Back-to-Basics will create a modern continuous learning environment and empower employees to craft their careers.


Te program’s mission is “to undertake the first major overhaul of the Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act since its inception and re-scope the definition of the coded acquisition workforce,” said Scott Greene, strategy and communications division chief in the Director of Acquisition Career Management (DACM) Office. Te program takes a hard look at acquisition positions across OSD and streamlines the 14 career fields into six func- tional areas: Business Financial Management/Cost Estimating, Contracting, Engineering and Technical Management, Life Cycle Logistics, Program Management, and Test and Evalua- tion. Back-to-Basics implementation is expected Feb. 1.


Rob Richardson Jr., the Army's director of acquisition career management, said that the program is focusing more on experiential training, “which is the piece that I think has always been missing. Folks have the certification, but really no experience.” In the past,


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