From the Army Acquisition Executive Douglas R. Bush The Army is improving and modernizing its software acquisition process to get Soldiers the technological advantages they need—fast. As…
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COMMAND/ORGANIZATION: Army Contracting Command, Headquarters 409th Contracting Support Brigade TITLE: Contract specialist ACQUISITION CAREER FIELD: Series 1102 YEARS OF SERVICE IN WORKFORCE: 10 YEARS OF MILITARY SERVICE: 23…
FROM THE DACM – “BEYOND THE BASICS” From the Director, Acquisition Career Management, Ronald “Rob” Richardson, Jr. Original article in AL&T News The Army Acquisition Workforce is now…
SOLITARY GRIND: Recent studies show that telework can expose employees to psychosocial risks such as feelings of isolation, lack of support, stress and overwork. (Getty Images) U.S. Army…
TEST RUN: Re-imagining Future Long Range Assault Aircraft means taking real data from flight tests and rigorously refining the requirements to meet the Army’s needs for flight performance, combat survivability,…
BLAST FROM THE PAST: Sandia National Laboratories researchers Candice Cooper, left; Shivonne Haniff, center; and Paul Taylor use a blast impact simulator to study mechanisms behind traumatic brain injury. Most…
TITLE: Contract specialist COMMAND/ORGANIZATION: Theater Contracting Center, 409th Contracting Support Brigade ACQUISITION CAREER FIELD: 51C YEARS OF SERVICE IN WORKFORCE: 2 YEARS OF MILITARY SERVICE: 13 ACQUISITION CERTIFICATIONS:…
HIGH PRIORITY: Collaboration among the joint services is a top priority for U.S. Cyber Command. (Photo by Josef Cole, U.S. Cyber Command/DVIDS) One small organization is…
by Cheryl Marino FORT BELVOIR, Va. (July 5, 2022)—The Summer 2022 issue of Army AL&T magazine focuses on software acquisition, how important it is to do it right,…
BACK-TO-BASICS A list of available and in development credentials is now updated on the DACM Office’s Back-to-Basics webpage. Credentials provide the knowledge and associated skills to perform job-centric,…
SITE SEEING: Command Sgt. Maj. Sean Rice, senior enlisted advisor at U.S. Army Security Assistance Command, talks with Soldiers assigned to the aviation maintenance unit of the Colombian Army base…
TROOP TRAINING: Soldiers receive additional HIMARS launchers and training from the STORM Project Office. (Photo by 1st Lt. Kendra Thomas, 18th Field Artillery Brigade) SOFTWARE, LAUNCHED The future…
COMMAND/ORGANIZATION: Program Executive Office Combat Support and Combat Service Support, Product Manager Force Projection, Product Manager Petroleum and Water Systems (PAWS) TITLE: Assistant program manager YEARS OF SERVICE…
by Rachel Berry, Communications Analyst, DACM Office Hearty congratulations to Lt. Col. John M. Williams II, who received his Ph.D. in the interdisciplinary material science program from Vanderbilt…
Precision-guided munitions fly to the sound of different GPS signals. by Paul Manz and Thomas Blenk On Oct. 12–14, 2021, Joint Program Executive Office Armaments and Ammunition (JPEO…
FORT BELVOIR, Va. (June 15, 2022) – Four GS-15 candidates from the Army Acquisition Workforce were selected from the Fiscal Year 2023 (FY23) project director (PD) centralized selection…
FORT BELVOIR, Va. (June 15, 2022) – Four GS-14 candidates from the Army Acquisition Workforce were selected from the Fiscal Year 2022 (FY22) product director (PD) centralized selection…
THE FIRST OF ITS KIND: Number Crunching circa 1935: U.S. electrical engineer and scientist Dr. Vannevar Bush (1890 – 1974) at the left, where an electrical brain solves mathematical problems…
COMMAND/ORGANIZATION: U.S. Army Mission and Installation Contracting Command-Installation Readiness Center TITLE: Contract specialist YEARS OF SERVICE IN WORKFORCE: 6 YEARS OF MILITARY SERVICE: 19 ACQUISITION CERTIFICATIONS: Level II…
ASSEMBLY REQUIRED: The STORM, Defense Contract Management Agency and Lockheed Martin teams gather around a missile-assembly fixture during the tour of the facility. Pictured, from left, are STORM quality analyst…
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION: As the keynote speaker at the 6th Annual Business Analytics Symposium held at the University of Texas at Arlington in March, Iyer highlighted relevant details about digital transformation…
GOING BEYOND THE BASICS WITH CREDENTIALS Credentials are an important aspect of the Back-to-Basics (BtB) framework and a powerful complement to baseline Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA)-required...
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SUCCESS ON STAGE: JA2’s diligent efforts to procure vaccines, therapeutics and enablers have been critical to the nation. (Photo by Staff Sgt. K. Tucker Owen, U.S. Air Force) …
Career Navigator Overworked and overwhelmed? You may be experiencing burnout. by Jacqueline M. Hames In this era of side hustles and the glorification of workaholics, it’s hard…
From the Director of Acquisition Career Management Ronald R. Richardson Jr. New framework, better alignment. The Army Acquisition Workforce is now working under a new and…
COMMAND/ORGANIZATION: Chief Information Office, Program Executive Office for Missiles and Space TITLE: Knowledge management specialist YEARS OF SERVICE IN WORKFORCE: 11 YEARS OF MILITARY SERVICE: 26 ACQUISITIONS CERTIFICATIONS:…
FORT BELVOIR, Va. (May 26, 2022)—Defense Acquisition University (DAU) Senior Service College Fellowship (SSCF) program’s class of 2022 graduated on May 24. Nineteen graduates were honored in a…
COMMAND/ORGANIZATION: Joint Program Executive Office for Armaments and Ammunition, Program Manager Towed Artillery Systems TITLE: Financial manager YEARS OF SERVICE IN WORKFORCE: 13 ACQUISITIONS CERTIFICATIONS: Level III in…
FORT BELVOIR, VA (May 12, 2022)—A recent analysis found an over 90 percent satisfaction rate among participants for elements of the Inspiring and Developing Excellence in Acquisition…
by Kathy Klinar, JTNC Innovation Branch Lead As part of the Department of Defense (DOD) and under the executive management of the Army’s Program Executive Office,…
FITS LIKE A GLOVE: Dr. Muthu Wijesundara (left) is fitted with the ReHeal Glove. (Photo provided by University of Texas at Arlington Research Institute) MTEC gives traction to…
BACK-TO-BASICS UPDATE ACQUISITION CORPS MEMBERSHIP By now you have heard that the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act eliminated the Acquisition Corps- not quite in the way that...
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TITLE: Contract specialist COMMAND/ORGANIZATION: 928th Contracting Battalion YEARS OF SERVICE IN WORKFORCE: 1 YEARS OF MILITARY SERVICE: 7 ACQUISITIONS CERTIFICATIONS: Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act Level 1 in…
GROUP GATHERING: TWI Fellows from around the country gathered for their annual midpoint meeting from March 26 to 28, at Sig Sauer headquarters in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. …
SIMPLY DIVINE: The Virtual Seminar Fellows, meeting in person for the first time, participate in a teambuilding exercise at the Garden of the Gods, Colorado. Pictured left to right are…
by Cheryl Marino FORT BELVOIR, Va. (April 25, 2022)—Research, development, testing and evaluation (RDT&E) is critical to everything we do in Army acquisition. “We all come to…
