Knowledge vs. Experience: The Need for an Acquisition On-the-Job Qualification Standard

Abstract

U.S. military services would never consider letting someoneespecially an officer with experience in a vastly different fieldfly a complex aircraft with only a few weeks of classroom indoctrination. Why? Because we all recognize the difference between knowledge and experience. Yet in too many of our acquisitions, program managers and their key functional leaders have insufficient on-the-job experience to manage the complex, multi-billion-dollar acquisition programs. Even the acquisition professionals who are lucky enough to have served in program offices throughout much of their careers may have experience that is too narrowly focused to handle the breadth of challenges presented by todays complex acquisition processes. But how could this happen?

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2009
Accession Number
AD1016385

Entities

People

  • Roy Wood

Organizations

  • Defense Systems Management College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Aircrafts
  • Defense Systems
  • Education
  • Engineering
  • Job Training
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Acquisition
  • Personnel Management
  • Program Management
  • Security Personnel
  • Standards
  • Students
  • Supervisors
  • Systems Engineering
  • Systems Management
  • Training

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.
  • Systems Analysis and Design