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Position category descriptions & experience, education & training requirements for fiscal year 2004.


The Deputy Director, Defense Procurement The fancy word for "purchasing." The procurement department within an organization manages all the major purchases.  and Acquisition Policy (Acquisition Workforce and Career Management) has released the fiscal 2004 approved position category descriptions and career field experience, education, and training requirements. The requirements are effective Oct. 1, 2003.

Unless designated as DESIRED, the requirements are MANDATORY Peremptory; obligatory; required; that which must be subscribed to or obeyed.

Mandatory statutes are those that require, as opposed to permit, a particular course of action.
 for certification. The lists also include training requirements that will change during the fiscal year as new courses are deployed; each new course is listed with a projected deployment date. The career fields with projected changes are: Contracting; Industrial/Contract Property Management; Purchasing; and Life Cycle Logistics logistics

In military science, all the activities of armed-force units in support of combat units, including transport, supply, communications, and medical aid. The term, first used by Henri Jomini, Alfred Thayer Mahan, and others, was adopted by the U.S.
 (Sustainment path).

The descriptions and requirements can be downloaded from the Defense Procurement and Acquisition Policy Web site at <http://www.acq.osd.mil/dpap>. Should you have any questions, please contact Karla Merritt Merritt is the name of several places in North America:
  • Merritt, California
  • Merritt, Illinois
  • Merritt, Michigan
  • Merritt Township, Michigan
  • Merritt, Missouri
  • Merritt, North Carolina
  • Merritt, Ohio
  • Merritt, Oklahoma
 at (703) 681-3444 or e-mail karla.merritt@osd.mil An Internet address domain name for a military agency. See Internet address.

(networking) mil - The top-level domain for entities affiliated with US armed forces.
.
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Title Annotation:Career Development; Defense Procurement and Acquisition Policy
Publication:Defense AT & L
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:May 1, 2004
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