Training the DoD Software Acquisition Professional

Abstract

Defense Acquisition University (DAU) is the department's premier software acquisition training institution. Software applications are now the primary method of providing warfighter capability in all of our programs. Education about how to do software acquisition management of the requirements, design, development deployment, operations, maintenance and disposal of software applications is a key factor to providing operationally effective, efficient and timely capabilities for our warfighters. DAU educates our DoD Acquisition professionals with the evidence-based best practices, lessons learned and DoD policy mandates that allow our warfighters to receive highly capable and reliable software-based capabilities. This article describes where DAU is at with software acquisition training, where we are headed in the next couple of years and the long term realization that software now impacts all systems and all career fields. This article will help the reader understand the current DAU training model and how DAU is working with the IT Functional Leader to identify ways to train all of DoD as needed to ensure we deliver software acquisition management training that improves the IT acquisition outcomes for our warfighters.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2015
Accession Number
ADA615595

Entities

People

  • Robert P. Skertic

Organizations

  • Defense Acquisition University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Application Software
  • Best Practices
  • Distance Learning
  • Education
  • Engineering
  • Information Systems
  • Intellectual Property
  • Knowledge Management
  • Lessons Learned
  • Management Training
  • Military Acquisition
  • Software Design
  • Students
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • United States Military Academy

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Military Leadership and Professional Education.