Download or read book Defense Management Implementation of the Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Defense Acquisition Workforce written by John K. Needham and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pres. has announced his intention to improve the acquisition process, particularly given the half a trillion dollars the fed. gov¿t. spent in FY 2009 on acquiring goods and services. The DoD spent $384 billion in FY 2009 on goods and services -- double what it spent in 2001. A high-quality workforce with the right competencies and skill sets will be critical to improving DoD acquisitions. This report determined the efficacy of DoD¿s certification training for its acquisition workforce. It assessed: (1) DoD¿s capability to provide certification training; (2) the extent that such training reaches members of the workforce; and (3) the extent that previous training recommendations have been implemented. Charts and tables. A print on demand publication.

Download or read book Empowering the Defense Acquisition Workforce to Improve Mission Outcomes Using Data Science written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-19 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The effective use of data science - the science and technology of extracting value from data - improves, enhances, and strengthens acquisition decision-making and outcomes. Using data science to support decision making is not new to the defense acquisition community; its use by the acquisition workforce has enabled acquisition and thus defense successes for decades. Still, more consistent and expanded application of data science will continue improving acquisition outcomes, and doing so requires coordinated efforts across the defense acquisition system and its related communities and stakeholders. Central to that effort is the development, growth, and sustainment of data science capabilities across the acquisition workforce. At the request of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, Empowering the Defense Acquisition Workforce to Improve Mission Outcomes Using Data Science assesses how data science can improve acquisition processes and develops a framework for training and educating the defense acquisition workforce to better exploit the application of data science. This report identifies opportunities where data science can improve acquisition processes, the relevant data science skills and capabilities necessary for the acquisition workforce, and relevant models of data science training and education.

Download or read book Acquisition Management written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Career Opportunities in the Defense Acquisition Workforce written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Acquisition Workforce written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GAO's continuing reviews of the acquisition workforce, focusing on the Department of Defense (DOD); the Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force; the Departments of Veterans Affairs, Energy, and Health and Human Services; the General Services Administration; and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, indicate that some of the government's largest procurement operations are not run efficiently. GAO found that requirements are not clearly defined, prices and alternatives are not fully considered, or contracts are not adequately overseen. The ongoing technological revolution requires a workforce with new knowledge, skills, and abilities, and the nature of acquisition is changing from routine simple buys toward more complex acquisitions and new business practices. DOD has adopted multidisciplinary and multifunctional definitions of their acquisition workforce, but the civilian agencies have not. DOD and the civilian agencies reviewed have developed specific training requirements for their acquisition workforce and mechanisms to track the training of acquisition personnel. All of the agencies reviewed said they had sufficient funding to provide current required core training for their acquisition workforce, but some expressed concerns about funding training for future requirements and career development, particularly because of budget cuts made recently at the Defense Acquisition University.

Download or read book Administration Perspectives on Managing the Defense Acquisition System and the Defense Acquisition Workforce written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Panel on Defense Acquisition Reform and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Expert Perspectives on Managing the Defense Acquisition System and the Defense Acquisition Workforce written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Panel on Defense Acquisition Reform and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report of the Defense Science Board Acquisition Workforce Sub Panel of the Defense Acquisition Reform Task Force on defense reform written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report provides three policy recommendations, based on the overarching theme of more closely integrating DoD with industry. The Sub-Panel believes that improved integration with industry is the critical element that will enable the acquisition system to perform better, faster, and cheaper in support of the warfighter. The recommended policy initiatives are that DoD should: 1. Restructure its Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDT & E) organizations and associated workforce to enable the Department to make better use of the capabilities of industry and other government agencies, to concentrate in-house capabilities in areas where there is no external capability, and to eliminate duplicative capabilities. 2 Expand the use of price-based forms of contracting to reduce the cost of doing business with Department of Defense (DoD) for existing Defense contractors and to give DoD access the segments of industry that currently choose not to do business with the Department because of the costs and complexities associated with cost-based contracts. 3. Expand the oursourcing of sustainment activities to eliminate duplicative capabilities between DoD and industry, to enable the Department to capitalize on industry's advancements in applying technology to these functions, and to provide better support to the user.

Download or read book Career Opportunities in the Defense Acquisition Workforce written by LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT INST BETHESDA MD. and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An informational and recruiting pamphlet that explains the most important provisions of the November 1990 Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA). Contains summaries of the law's implementing rules and policies, and cites the most applicable references. The pamphlet is intended for members of the DoD acquisition workforce and for others attracted to career opportunities in Defense acquisition.

Download or read book Air Force Management of the Defense Acquisition Workforce Development Fund written by John A. Ausink and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Since the establishment of the Defense Acquisition Workforce Development Fund (DAWDF), the U.S. Air Force's Director of Acquisition Career Management (DACM) has received funds sufficient to pay for all initiatives that satisfy DAWDF criteria. Recognizing that this will not always be the case, DACM asked the RAND Corporation to develop a decision framework to help prioritize DAWDF initiatives and ensure that the funds are used effectively"--Back cover.

Download or read book The Quality and Professionalism of the Acquisition Workforce written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Defense Acquisition Organizations written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Department of Defense's (DOD) acquisition workforce reductions, focusing on: (1) DOD's progress in reducing its workforce in acquisition organizations by 25 percent; (2) the potential savings associated with these personnel reductions; (3) the status of DOD efforts to redefine its acquisition workforce; and (4) DOD's efforts to consolidate and restructure acquisition organizations. GAO noted that: (1) DOD has been reducing its acquisition workforce at a faster rate than its overall workforce and is on schedule to accomplish a 25-percent reduction by the end of fiscal year 2000; (2) however, potential savings from these reductions cannot be precisely tracked in DOD's budget; (3) in addition, some of the potential savings from acquisition workforce reductions may be offset by other anticipated costs; (4) such costs include those for contracting with private entities for some services previously performed by government personnel; (5) DOD developed a new definition for the acquisition workforce and is using it to identify individuals who perform acquisition functions throughout the Department; (6) DOD is also exploring a process by which it can, for the first time, link management of the acquisition workforce to DOD's overall manpower and budget processes; (7) although far from assured, success in this arena could allow better planning and budgeting for workforce training and tracking changes in the workforce; (8) GAO recently reported that DOD's efforts to streamline and consolidate the research, development, test, and evaluation segment of its acquisition organizations have not resulted in significant infrastructure reductions; and (9) GAO's further analysis of the results of one Air Force effort confirmed GAO's earlier conclusions that such initiatives have been unable to overcome numerous obstacles, which often impede them.

Download or read book Defense Acquisition Workforce written by Belva Martin and published by . This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In FY 2010, more than half of the $367 billion dollars the Dept. of Defense (DOD) spent on contracts was spent on services. Buying services is fundamentally different than buying weapon systems, yet most acquisition regulations, policies, processes, and training remain structured for acquiring weapon systems. Over the last decade, reports from GAO, DOD, and Congress have raised issues about services acquisitions and have also highlighted the importance of acquisition training. This report addresses personnel working on services acquisitions who were outside the Defense Acquisition workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA) acquisition workforce -- termed non-DAWIA personnel with acquisition-related responsibilities -- and the extent to which (1) DOD knows the composition of this population, (2) this population is taking acquisition training, and (3) DOD has implemented past recommendations related to this population. Includes recommendations. Tables. This is a print on demand report.

Download or read book Acquisition Management written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act written by Arthur Santo-Donato and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Acquisition Workforce written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: