Podcasts Government Federal Drive with Tom Temin Training a new generation of acquisition professionals

Training a new generation of acquisition professionals

Published: May 15, 2023, 10:35 a.m.

b'As the Pentagon moves to create novel ways of customizing acquisition to make the process faster and more agile, a new crop of acquisition professionals is learning their job and choosing what they learn based on specialization. At the Defense Acquisition University (DAU), aspiring contracting officers focus on the basics, and then they pick and choose based on what area of expertise they need.\\nDr. Bill LaPlante, the undersecretary of Defense for acquisition and sustainment, called the changes at DAU transformational.\\n\\u201cIf you haven\\u2019t gone and seen online, all the courses and things that they put in, a new generation of training for the workforce, it\\u2019s very, very impressive,\\u201d LaPlante said at the Naval Postgraduate School Acquisition Research Symposium Wednesday.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'