1. Working with you to achieve mission success
For 100- & 200-Level Courses
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The purpose of this briefing is to provide DAU faculty with a tailorable presentation designed to provide information to Defense Acquisition Workforce members attending resident training 100- and 200-level courses at the Defense Acquisition University. It helps answer the question: “What does DAU have to help me get certified and do my job more effectively?”
Working with you to achieve mission success

2. Established to Support the Acquisition Workforce
10 USC Ch Sec. 1746: “The Secretary of Defense … shall establish and maintain a defense acquisition university structure to provide for the professional educational development and training of the acquisition workforce.”
Key points:
DAU was mandated by Congressional legislation that was signed into law in 1990 as a key organization to help professionalize the Defense Acquisition workforce.
Our original emphasis was on certification training—and this is still our most significant product.
In the 21st Century, however, in addition to training courses delivered only in the classroom, DAU has online courses, continuous learning modules, and knowledge sharing assets. Together these learning assets create a “global learning environment” that is available anytime, anywhere to the workforce.
DAU Mission: Provide a global learning environment to develop qualified acquisition, requirements and contingency professionals who deliver and sustain effective and affordable warfighting capabilities.

3. Located With Our Customers
Region
Location
FY13
C/NE
Fort Belvoir, VA
36,600
Mid-Atlantic
California, MD
28,740
Midwest
Kettering, OH
21,428
South
Huntsville, AL
34,743
West
San Diego, CA
29,844
Total
151,355
DAU made a conscious decision in 2001 to locate its faculty and staff at regional campuses aligned with major concentrations of the Defense Acquisition Workforce population.
These regional campuses allow us to offer courses “locally”—saving travel dollars and cutting down on time away from home for the workforce.
In addition, because our faculty are located close to major acquisition organizations, they can do more than teach. They can go to the acquisition organizations and provide Mission Assistance (tailored training, information about major changes to acquisition policy, and consulting support) to help these organizations address program, business or technical issues and achieve better acquisition outcomes.
By helping acquisition organizations, our faculty also maintain currency on current acquisition practices thus making them more relevant in the classroom.
We are part of the community, not just a place to take classes.

4. DAU: Training Courses…and More
Classroom & online DAWIA, Core Plus, & Executive
Continuous Learning
CL Modules - Online, self-paced learning modules
Training Events – Senior Leader Acquisition Training, Business Acquisition, DAU Acquisition Community Symposium, Hot Topic Training Forums
Formal & informal learning at the point of need
Knowledge Sharing
DAP - Online portal to Big A & HCI knowledge
ACC - DoD's online collaborative communities
Virtual Library - Online connection to DAU research collection
The Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics (AT&L) Performance Learning Model (PLM) is a visual representation of how the Defense Acquisition University (DAU) fulfills its mission: Provide a global learning environment to develop qualified acquisition, requirements and contingency professionals who deliver and sustain effective and affordable Warfighting capabilities.
To provide this global learning environment, DAU delivers the following learning assets to the Defense Acquisition Workforce:
training courses
continuous learning
knowledge sharing
mission assistance.
As the Defense Acquisition Workforce’s premier learning and development center, DAU aligns its training with the specific career field requirements as outlined by DAWIA. In addition, the university has taken innovative measures to ensure that learning and acquisition support are available beyond DAWIA certification, creating a total learning environment for career-long solutions at the point of need.
Mission Assistance
Consulting - Helping organizations solve complex acquisition problems
Targeted Training - Tailored organizational training
Rapid Deployment Training - On-site & online training on the latest AT&L policies

5. DAU’s iCatalog
The DAU iCatalog is published each fiscal year and provides a complete listing of all DAU courses and other products, as well as information about the University and procedures required to enroll in DAU courses.
Limited quantities of the paper catalog are available each year, but the DAU iCatalog is continuously updated and is always easy to reach online.
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Most current resource for information regarding DAU courses and the Certification & Core Plus Development Guides
Accessible from the DAU home page ( or directly at

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The DAU’s Learning Capabilities and Integration Center (LCIC) includes Center Directors that are responsible for a portfolio of courses much of which is included in the various career field certification requirements for each level. These recognized experts in their field. They, along with their staff, look across the entire curricula to ensure appropriate content, sequencing, and delivery.
They closely interact with the Acquisition Functional Leaders and their Functional Integrated Process Teams (FIPT). In some cases the Center Director also serves as the Executive Secretary and/or Chair for the Functional Leaders FIPT. The Functional Leader is responsible for establishing and maintaining the career field competencies and determining which one must be included in certification training. The Center Director is responsible for converting those competencies into learning assets, predominately, courseware.
They also work closely with the office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, other Federal Agencies and industry to capture the latest initiatives and best practices in order to disseminate information to the workforce by a variety of means to include AKSS, various Communities of Practices [COPs] and Special Interest Areas [SIAs]).
SELECT FROM THE FOLLOWING CHARTS THE CHART(S) APPROPRIATE TO THE CLASS YOU ARE TEACHING. The green represents functional training, the blue represents other acquisition training, and the white indicates CLMs applicable to the functional training requirements.
Listed POCs are for INSTRUCTOR USE ONLY.
Level-certifications on wire diagrams link to PUBLISHED changes.

7. Contracting CON 1 Year Experience 2 Years Experience
Level I Certification
CON
Level II Certification
Level III Certification
CON 090
Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Fundamentals
ACQ 101
Fundamentals of Systems Acquisition Management
ACQ 201A
Intermediate Systems Acquisition, Part A
4 weeks classroom
25 hrs, online
25 hrs, online
CON 100
Shaping Smart Business Arrangements
CON 200
Business Decisions for Contracting
CON 216
Legal Considerations in Contracting
CON 360
Contracting for Decision Makers
20 hrs, online
CON 121
Contract Planning
19 hrs, online
23 hrs, online
Online
9.5 days classroom
12 hrs, online
CON 270
Intermediate Cost & Price Analysis
CON 280
Source Selection and Administration of Service Contracts
Choice of:
ACQ Mission Focused Svs
ACQ Acquisition Law
CON Overheads
CON Adv Contract Pricing
CON Construction
CON 250 – Cost Accounting Stds
CON Adv Contingency Con
CON 124
Contracting Fundamentals
10 days classroom
TBD
9.5 days classroom
CON 127
Contract Management
CON 290
Contract Administration and Negotiation Techniques in a Supply Environment
TBD
CLC 058
Introduction to Contract Pricing
Unique Notes:
None
POC: Center for Contracting Director, Lenny Manning:
10 days classroom
CLC 051
Government Property
CLC 056
Analyzing Contract Costs
2 hrs, online
1 CLM: Harvard Business Series
CON 170
Fundamentals of Cost and Price Analysis
CLC 057
Performance Based Payments & Value of Cash Flow
HBS 428
Negotiations
10 days classroom
CLC 033
Contract Format and Structure
1 Year Experience
2 Years Experience
4 Years Experience

8. Purchasing 1 Year Experience 2 Years Experience Level I Certification
Level II Certification
CON 100
Shaping Smart Business Arrangements
CON 121
Contract Planning
12 hrs, online
20 hrs, online
CON 237
Simplified Acquisition Procedures
CON 124
Contract Execution
6 hrs, online
13 hrs, online
CLC 058
Introduction to Contract Pricing
CON 127
Contract Management
10 hrs, online
CLG 001
DoD Government Purchase Card
Unique Notes:
None
POC: Center for Contracting Director, Lenny Manning:
CLC 030
Essentials of Interagency Acquisitions/Fair Opportunity
CLC 033
Contract Format and Structure
1 Year Experience
2 Years Experience

9. Earn College Credits for your DAU Courses
DAU partners with more than 100 colleges & universities to obtain credit for DAU courses toward degrees and certificates
“Excel-erate” Your Master’s Degree…
Through this program, partner universities are offering the Defense Acquisition Workforce credit toward masters degrees for DAWIA Level II and III certification.
DAU has more than 100 strategic partnerships with universities, other governmental agencies, professional associations, and defense industry companies.
Of primary interest to our students are our partnerships with universities and colleges.
The purpose of these partnerships is to obtain credit for DAU courses towards the degrees and certificates offered by these educational institutions. By obtaining graduate or undergraduate credit for DAU courses, workforce members can earn their degrees more quickly and at lower cost, thereby meeting their DAWIA certification education requirements or enhancing their qualifications for promotion.
In addition, some universities also offer DoD students discounted course costs because of these strategic partnerships.
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10. Helping Meet Continuous Learning Requirements
One of the key DAU transformation initiatives was to provide learning assets to the Defense Acquisition Workforce 24/7 to help them do them perform their jobs more effectively
The DAU Continuous Learning Center offers online, self-paced Continuous Learning Modules (CLM)—more than 200 in total.
These short modules (2-4 hours on average) can be searched to find knowledge needed to address a workplace need. Our workforce members can formally enroll in the module, complete all of the material, and upon successfully completed the assessment at the end of the module earn continuous learning points (CLP), which will help them meet their requirement to earn a total of 80 continuous learning points every two years to maintain their DAWIA certification.
In addition to CLMs, the DAU continuous learning webpage provides workforce members access to information on numerous ways to earn CLPs.
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11. Providing Online Tools To Enhance Job Performance
Defense Acquisition Portal
Ask A Professor
PM Toolkit
A one-stop source for acquisition information and tools
Got an acquisition question? Go to the experts!
All the information a program manager could ever ask for in one convenient location
Service Acquisition Mall
Acquisition Community Connection
DAU Media
All the tools and templates one needs to create performance-based service acquisition requirements
Where the DoD and AT&L workforce meets to share knowledge
Video clips from senior leaders on acquisition topics
Knowledge Sharing
DAU's three primary components of knowledge sharing are the Defense Acquisition Portal (DAP), the Acquisition Community Connection (ACC), and the DAU Knowledge Repository (Acker Library).
The DAP provides access to online, searchable acquisition regulations and policy documents; an Ask A Professor feature, the Defense Acquisition Guidebook, and the Integrated Framework Chart.
The ACC is the online location where the defense acquisition community meets to obtain information by acquisition interest area and share knowledge through participation in communities of practice.
The DAU on Knowledge Repository (Acker Library) provides online access to collections of periodicals, reports and books related to acquisition.
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Acker Library and Knowledge Repository
Integrated Defense AT&L Lifecycle Chart
Defense Acquisition Guidebook
The acquisition policy and discretionary best practice guide

12. Stay Current on Acquisition Policy & Research
Our periodicals recognize students as subject matter experts, showcasing their original content to high-level policymakers
Defense AT&L
An award-winning bi-monthly publication featuring articles focused on real people and events that reflect experiences and observations for the Defense Acquisition Workforce
Defense Acquisition Research Journal
This peer-reviewed scholarly journal captures acquisition research, lessons learned/best practices, tutorials, expert opinion for the Acquisition community
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13. Professional Development Opportunities
The DAU Alumni Association provides a means for continuing professional growth within the defense acquisition community and helps workforce members meet their continuous learning requirements.
The Association hosts the annual Acquisition Community Symposium and a number of Hot Topic Forums.
If you are a government employee attending the Defense Acquisition University, you are eligible for a three year free membership in the National Defense Industrial Association.

14. Access DAU resources on your mobile device at:
Connect With Us
DAU Mobile recognizes when is being accessed from a mobile device and provides a more focused and user-friendly menu to easily connect users to the most essential features of the DAU webpages. The same information provided throughout DAU.mil is always at our customers’ fingertips.
In the future, DAU Mobile will be adding features to mirror our webpage, such as a rotating ticker with the latest news and a GPS-based map feature that will be able to navigate students with step-by-step directions to their classrooms.
Students and customers who also connect with us through social networks can receive up-to-the-minute news on course offerings, Hot Topic Forums, symposiums, inclement weather updates and other related defense acquisition updates.
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Access DAU resources on your mobile device at:

15. Student Academic Policies & Information
Students should visit the Student Policies and Information page at for information on:
Student Standards of Conduct
Violations of the Standards of Conduct
Course Enrollment, Extensions, and Walk-ins
Disenrollment, Dropping a Course, and Wait Lists
Course Prerequisite/Pre-course Work Requirements
Student Travel
Student Assessment and Evaluation
Student Attrition Codes
Accommodating Students with Disabilities
Transferring Students Between Career Fields (Programs) and from Other Institutions
Test Reset Policy and Procedures
Student Transcripts, Records Retention, and Disclosure of Student Academic Records (Privacy)
Student Complaint/Grievance Procedures
Although you covered some essential student policies as part of the course introduction on Day 1, this chart is an excellent listing of all the resources available to the student on
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DAU encourages students who have a concern or issue with the learning environment to discuss it with their instructor.
Students who feel their issue is not resolved satisfactorily may go to the department chair/site manager or Regional Associate Dean for Academics.

16. Connect with Our Learning Assets at www.dau.mil
DAU Training & CL Courses
Mission Assistance
Better Buying Power
Defense Acquisition Portal
Acquisition Community Connection
DAU Knowledge Repository
This is a summary chart that provides links to DAU’s major learning assets.
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17. The training you get from DAU… helps you support our warfighters.
This is the “get off the stage” chart for this presentation. It emphasizes that DAU training is important because it:
helps Defense Acquisition Workforce members achieve DAWIA certification
more importantly, DAU training helps workforce members do their acquisition jobs more effectively so they can provide the best products and services cost-effectively and on-time to our ultimate customer: the Warfighter.
The training you get from DAU…
helps you support our warfighters.