Sorry for harping so much on acquisition and procurement stuff, this makes 4 in a row, but I saw an article last week in Federal Computer Week titled Acquisition Workforce Needs Retooling and I feel compelled to comment. I agree that we can't leave it as it is.
The Federal Acquisition Institute (FAI) has created a bunch of different flavors and we don't quite get how they are all supposed to work. Check out their Certifications site for more detail. I am currently a FAC-PM and a FAC-COTR. Should I pursue the FAC-C? I don't know. It's a patchwork and there is considerable overlap for the types of projects I'm involved with.
The good news is that FAI has recognized that more is needed. I participated in a focus group a week or two ago in which a number of people from a variety of agencies and the DoD participated in a COR/COTR focus group. There were some themes that came out of that experience that will help to build some more hard skills for constructing work statements that are objective and measurable and then monitoring performance against those benchmarks. I'm optimistic that new content will be developed to reinforce these types of adjustments at the COR/COTR level.
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