DAU West Region officially opens Headquarters in San Diego.The Defense Acquisition University (DAU DAU - /dow/ [German Fidonet] D"ummster Anzunehmender User. A German acronym for stupidest imaginable user. From the engineering-slang GAU for Gr"osster Anzunehmender Unfall (worst foreseeable accident), especially of a LNG tank farm plant or something with similarly disastrous ) West Region campus officially opened for business at a ribbon cutting ceremony A ribbon cutting ceremony is a public ceremony conducted to inaugurate the opening to the general public of a new building or business. Often, it is conducted in just the manner the name suggests: by tying a ceremonial ribbon across the main entrance of the building, which on Jan. 28, 2004. With the official opening of its West Region Headquarters in San Diego, Calif., DAU takes a major step towards achieving its goal of transforming acquisition training in support of the DoD AT & L workforce. The new San Diego facility is located on a military installation--Naval Base Point Loma--and offers many different Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act The Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA) was signed into law in November 1990. It requires the Department of Defense to establish education and training standards, requirements, and courses for the civilian and military workforce. (DAWIA DAWIA Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act of 1990 ) functional courses (program management, contract management, systems engineering, logistics, financial management, etc.). The DAU West Region, led by Dean Andrew Zaleski, is composed of 50 staff and faculty members who focus primarily on teaching DAWIA certification courses and providing performance support (consulting, targeted training, and partnering with regional organizations) throughout 13 western states, including Hawaii and Alaska plus the Pacific Rim. The region's charter, which calls for working with major DoD agencies and remaining current on significant AT & L workforce issues, allows the region to better serve the acquisition needs of its customers across the entire spectrum of DoD's 13 acquisition career fields. A Major Event for the Defense Acquisition Workforce The ceremony was hosted by DAU President Frank Anderson Jr. and Dean Zaleski. In his opening statement, Zaleski welcomed local government and industry officials from the West Region, DAU directors, faculty, contractors, as well as distinguished guests participating in the day's events: Navy Adm. Jose Betancourt, Jr., commander, Navy Southwest Region; Navy Capt. Anthony Gonzales, commander, Naval Base Point Loma Located in Point Loma, a neighborhood of San Diego, California, Naval Base Point Loma (NBPL) consists of 9 geographically separated complexes to include Subase, DFSP Fuel Farm, Bayside, Topside, Seaside, C3F Complex, Fleet ASW, Fleet Intelligence Training Center Complex, Old ; Lou Kratz, deputy under secretary of defense (logistics plans and programs); Richard Zirk, director. Defense Contract Management Agency-West Region; Jim Churchill, Program Executive Office Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (PEO C4I) and Space; Raymond Sayre, regional director, Western/Southwestern Region Navy College; and Rudy Fernandez, director, Economic Development and Veterans Military Liaison, representing the San Diego mayor's office. "Today's ceremony is a major event in the ongoing transformation of DAU," said Zaleski. "A significant phase of this transformation has been the reorganization of DAU to a regionalization regionalization Managed care The subdivision of a broadly available service–eg, a blood bank, into quasi-autonomous regional centers, capable of making decisions and providing more cost-effective and/or faster service to hospitals and health care facilities, concept, whereby DAU has reorganized into five regions within the continental United States United States territory, including the adjacent territorial waters, located within North America between Canada and Mexico. Also called CONUS. to become more customer-centric with the AT & L workforce. Today's event essentially completes this phase of the transformation." Leveraging the Dollar Invested in Learning Anderson praised organizers of the day's events. "This is really a fantastic day for the region and it has truly been a community effort," said Anderson. "This is not just DAU; it is about our teammates from the Navy and the people who are located here--Navy College and NPS (Naval Postgraduate School The Naval Postgraduate School is a graduate school operated by the United States Navy. Located in Monterey, California, it grants primarily master's degrees plus some doctoral degrees to its students, who are mostly active duty officers from U.S. and foreign military services. )--and how everybody chipped in and pulled together. So, when you look at this facility," he added, "what we've created here is embedded learning, and it represents the best of what can happen in the Department if we learn how to collaborate, share, and work as a team of one." [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Anderson told the audience that DAU holds classes during the day; the Navy College is running courses at night that will help young sailors pursue their degree requirements; and NPS is able to reach out to a much larger and broader Army and Navy community throughout the nation from their teaching center here. "About two years ago, Mr. Wynne asked that we look at ways to team and partner, so that we leverage the dollar invested in learning," said Anderson. "It is a lot better for the DoD community when we can create this kind of facility that can be used by more than one DoD organization. So I am really excited about what has happened here today." Strategic Partnerships Signed In conjunction with the ribbon cutting, the DAU West Region signed three Strategic Partnerships with Alliant International University This article needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. (AIU), San Diego, Calif; University of California, Los Angeles UCLA comprises the College of Letters and Science (the primary undergraduate college), seven professional schools, and five professional Health Science schools. Since 2001, UCLA has enrolled over 33,000 total students, and that number is steadily rising. (UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX ); and University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). , Irvine (UCI). These partnerships offer significant educational opportunities for the Department of Defense Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (DoD AT & L) workforce, whereby multiple DAU courses may be transferred toward professional certificates, bachelor's, master's, and doctoral programs. Editor's note: Manley provides contract support to the DAU West Region. |
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