by Kelly Terry
FORT BELVOIR, Va. (June 13, 2024) – The Army Acquisition Corps selects candidates for the Fiscal Year 2025 Product Director Centralized Selection Boards (CSB) held June 5–9, 2023 at the Human Resources Command at Fort Knox, Kentucky.
The Product Director (PdD) concept is to centrally select high performing, high potential Army acquisition civilian program management personnel at the GS-14 or broadband equivalent level to serve in PdD positions within the program executive office (PEO) structure. The Director, Acquisition Career Management (DACM) Office’s objective is to direct personnel assignments within the PEOs to facilitate the placement of these selected civilian personnel in PdD positions. This central management of civilian PDs is a core tenant of the civilian talent management concept.
A talent management board of directors met May 22, 2024, to approve the position slates, for the newly selected product directors. Lt. Gen. Robert M. Collins, principal military deputy to the assistant secretary of the army for acquisition, logistics and technology presided over the board consisting of Rob Richardson, Jr., DACM, the 12 PEOs and Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office.
The board approved three PdDs, for assignment. Congratulations to the following slated principals:
FISCAL YEAR 2025 PRODUCT DIRECTORS
Name and Slated Program:
- Antoinette Freeland, PEO Enterprise Information Systems PdD Global Combat Support-Army
- Gina Whitaker, PEO EIS, PdD Army Human Resource Systems
- Tinesha Nicholas, Joint PEO Armaments & Ammunition, PdD Demilitarization (DEMIL)
The fiscal year 2026 Product Director Board will be held June 23-28, 2024, with slate release anticipated in the spring of 2025. The fiscal year 2027 Product Director announcement will open in February of 2025.
For information, email the CSB PM, Kelly.l.terry2.civ@army.mil, or go to https://asc.army.mil/web/prod-dir.
