BACK IN THE SADDLE


MODERN ARMOR


Capt. Kim Pierre-Zamora, right, a reservist attached to the Program Executive Office for Soldier, briefs prototypes of next-generation body armor during the 2022 Reserve Component Acquisition Training Summit held in August at Fort Belvoir, Virginia.


“Acquisition certification training is really moving to lifelong learning and elective learning,” Greene said. “Te responsibil- ity relies more on the individual, as well as supervisors, to know specifically what [courses] they need to take to get certified.”


BACK TO BASICS While the overall objective of Army acquisition hasn’t changed, the need to modernize the career field and the systems was a theme throughout the conference.


“In the Army Reserve, we only have 300 acquisition Soldiers [enlisted and officer],” said Col. Keith G. Harley, acquisition adviser to the chief of the Army Reserve and the director of the Acquisition Inte- gration Office. “It’s a small community,”


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he said. “Bringing them all together in one place is very vital to their career development.”


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Acquisition professionals (51A and 51C military occupational specialties, acqui- sition career field) support virtually every part of the Army. “From cutting the grass to feeding the Soldier, to developing the weapon systems for the warfighter, it falls under the acquisition umbrella,” Harley said. “We may not be boots-on-the-ground lethality … but everything the Soldier wears or uses, acquisition is touching it first.”


MODERNIZATION FOR 2035 Acquisition Soldiers are involved in the entire modernization process, from prod- uct and contract development to awarding the contract and fielding the equipment to the Soldiers. Tis positions acquisition professionals in a particularly vital role for


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