Courses - Career Development

Program Manager, July-August, 2003

UPDATE ON DAB FISCAL 2004 SCHEDULE

Schedule negotiations, consultation with the regional campuses, and assignment of instructors is currently in process for the fiscal 2004 DAU course schedule. The Service Components (Army, Air Force, Navy, and DoD) completed their review of a draft schedule in August. Watch the DAB Web site at http://www.dau.mil for the final course schedule.

NEW CON-353 PILOT UNDER WAY

DAUB new contracting course, Advanced Business Solutions for Mission Support (CON-353) is the new DAWIA Level III Contracting course for contracting professionals. The course will be deployed in October 2003. "TWO pilots are being held this summer. The course is currently planned to be 8.5 days in length with approximately 16 hours of precourse assignment work over 30 calendar days. To view the content/layout of the course, go to http://www.dau.mil and click on the right hand side of the screen under "Just Released." E-mail questions and comments to con353@dau.mil.

DAB TO SPLIT HYBRID COURSES IN FISCAL 2004

Beginning with the loading of the fiscal 2004 schedule (tentatively scheduled for late July 2003), students will be required to register separately for each part of any DAB hybrid course. These courses are ACQ-201A, ACQ-201B, BCF-211A, BCF-211B, CON-104A, CON-104B (CON-104A/B are due to be replaced; however, the new courses are not yet ready to go online), LOG-201A, LOG-201B, LOG-235A, LOG-235B, PMT-352A, PMT-352B, PQM-201A, PQM-201B, SYS-201A, and SYS-201B. The Part A (WEB) of each course will become a rolling admission format and students may take it at any time, as long as the required prerequisites have been completed. There is no longer a time period requirement in which both parts must be completed. However, Part A (WEB) must be completed before a reservation in Part B (RESIDENT) will be approved for any hybrid course.

Students will be required to complete both parts of any hybrid course in order to receive credit for the course toward certification. (Note: The LOG-201A course is delivered in a correspondence format rather than a Web-based delivery)

NDIA TO SPONSOR DSAM OFFERINGS FOR INDUSTRY MANAGERS

The National Defense Industrial Association will sponsor offering of DAB'S Defense Systems Acquisition Management (DSAM) course to interested industry managers Nov. 17-21, 2003, at the Adam's Mark Hotel in Orlando, Fla.

DSAM uses the same acquisition policy information provided to DoD students who attend DAB courses for formal acquisition certification. It is designed to meet the needs of defense industry acquisition managers in today's dynamic environment, providing the latest information related to:

* Defense acquisition policy for weapons and information technology systems including discussion of the new DoD 5000 series (directive, instruction, and guidebook).

* Defense acquisition and logistics excellence initiatives.

* Defense acquisition procedures and processes.

* The Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System and the congressional budget process.

* The relationship between requirements generation, resource allocation, science and technology activities, and acquisition programs.

For further information, contact Christy O'Hara (703) 2472586 or e-mail cohara@ndia.org. Prospective government students must first contact Air Force Maj. Jim Ashworth at (703) 805-5809 or e-mail james.ashworth@dau.mil.

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN PROGRAM MANAGEMENT (MSPM) DEGREE Sandra Duerinck-Ribon

We are pleased to announce that the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), Master of Science in Program Management (MSPM) and the Master of Science in Contract Management (MSCM) are coming to Fort Monmouth, N.J. The MSPM and MSCM programs offer great Acquisition Education, Training & Experience (AET&E) opportunities. The curricula are designed to provide federal civilian employees with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to manage and lead effectively in the federal government acquisition environment. The programs locus on problem solving and decision making within the acquisition environment utilizing case studies, teaming exercises, hands on applications, active participation, and other similar activities. Additional information on the MSPM and MSCM programs, as well as the Naval Postgraduate School, may be found by visiting by visiting the NPS Web site at http://www.nps.navy.mil

The tentative start date for the programs is Sept. 29, 2003. Both programs are nine quarters in duration and consist of a combination of video-teleconferencing (VTC) and one-week resident sessions at NPS, in Monterey, Calif.

The MSPM program satisfies the mandatory DAB program management and acquisition logistics course requirements of the Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA) through Level III. It also provides course equivalency through Level II in Test & Evaluation, Systems Engineering, Manufacturing/Production/Quality Assurance, and Software Acquisition. The NPS will accept tap to 12 quartet hours (eight semester hours) of transfer credit for graduate courses taken at an accredited college/university that have been evaluated as satisfying one or more of the graduate courses in the MSPM curriculum. The MSCM program degree satisfies DAU mandatory training requirements for Level III certification in Contracting. Completion of the MSCM meets DAWIA requirements for 24 hours of business subjects and 40 hours of continuous learning.