Deploying & Growing Talent and Tools to Drive Innovation
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Deploying & Growing Talent and Tools to Drive Innovation Melissa Starinsky Director Federal Acquisition Institute May 11, 2016
Transcript of Deploying & Growing Talent and Tools to Drive Innovation
Deploying & Growing Talent
and Tools to Drive Innovation
Melissa Starinsky
Director
Federal Acquisition Institute
May 11, 2016
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Today’s Topics
Federal Acquisition Institute (FAI)
Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP)
Transforming the Marketplace Initiative
FAI/DAU Joint Plan
Implementation Status
Other FAI Initiatives
Questions
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The Federal Acquisition Institute
Support 23 CFO Act agencies and 100+ small agencies
Serve more than 200,000 civilian agency acquisition workforce members
In FY ‘15, delivered training to 70,000 people and conferred 325,000 CLPs
Staff of 15 FTE
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Acquisition Workforce Human Capital Planning
FAI provides civilian agencies with human capital
analysis and planning support.
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Training & Certification
Three certification tracks: FAC-C, FAC-P/PM, and FAC-COR
Support delivery of core training and offer wide range of continuous
learning point options
Pursuing deployment of experiential learning offerings
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Acquisition Research
FAI provides acquisition research
and benchmarking data.
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OFPP Transforming the Marketplace
December 2014 –
OFPP Administrator
tasked FAI and DAU
with joint plan Build capability to use agile
approaches to technology
acquisitions that facilitate
continual customer testing of
creative contractor ideas
Deploy new and innovative
approaches to workforce
development
FAI/DAU meet and
report regularly to
OFPP on progress
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Implementation Status
• Working with OFPP and USDS to transition Digital
Services Contracting Professional Training and
Development Program to FAI
• Developing a Back to Basic Series for deployment
later this year
• Leveraging public domain and other available
content through partnerships
• Supporting Category Management Training
• Launch Tools
• On Demand, Just-in-Time Learning Solutions
• Contracting Professionals Smart Guide
• Project/Program Manager Guidebook
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Digital Services Contracting Professional Training and Development Program
Digital Services
Contracting
Professional Training
and Development
Program
6-month
experiential
learning
program
Pilot #1 just
completed with
29 graduates
Develops digital
service
procurement
experts with
Core-Plus
Certification
(FAC-C-Digital
Services)
Cohort #2
slated to begin
later this FY
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Just-in-Time Tools and Training
Offering Learner Choice
and Variety
Guidebooks
Knowledge Nuggets
Acquisition Seminars
On-line Learning
Army Avatars
Accessible through
FAI.gov or FAITAS and
offer Continuous
Learning Point (CLP)
Opportunities
A wealth of learning
solutions available
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Partnering with Other Agencies (access via FAITAS)
By partnering and sharing with other agencies, twelve (12) innovative
learning solutions now available to civilian agency acquisition
personnel
Thanks to Harry Hallock, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army
(Procurement) and Matthew Meinert, Army Contracting Command
(ACC), Chief, Virtual Contracting Office (VCE) Office!
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Army Contracting Command Videos
Accessible through FAITAS and gives learners
Continuous Learning Point (CLP) credit!
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FAI.gov Media Library
Lifting the Curtain: Can We Talk Series Category Management Knowledge Nugget Behind the Buy Podcasts
On demand library of acquisition seminars,
knowledge nuggets, podcasts, and more!
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Other FAI Initiatives Other FAI Initiatives Comments/Impact
Leverage FITARA moment to
drive improvements to FAC-
P/PM Core Plus IT program
• Stronger value for FAC-P/PM-IT for all stakeholders
Establish CAO/CIO/CHCO cross-boundary partnerships
• Six initiatives underway
Support GSA Leasing
Certification Specialty
Track
• Automated support of SPE-mandated certification of 100s
of leasing COs
• Deployment of GSA requirements in FAITAS is being
scheduled
Explore/expand experiential
learning opportunities
• Increase proficiency levels as 70%-80% of learning occurs
by doing
• DITAP
• Openopportunities.gov
Support Category Mgmt • Improve value and rate of adoption of CM tools
• Align practices across civilian agencies with Federal policy
in CM
• Knowledge Nugget now available on FAI.gov
• Populating Prices Paid Matrix
• Developing more training
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Experiential Learning Opportunity GSA platform to connect experiential learning
opportunities with career development needs
of workforce
Initially developed for digital services type
opportunities but can be leveraged for
acquisition community
NOT formal details or job rotations (although it
could be) – develop-in-place assignments –
time commitment varies
NOT to be used for staff augmentation
Can satisfy certification CLP requirements,
drive employee engagement up, and improve
recruitment and retention efforts
Gives workforce opportunity to build skills they
might not otherwise be able to develop in their
current job
For more information,
please contact:
Anne Reinhold,
Procurement Analyst at
(202) 689-7806; or,
Lisa Nelson, Open
Opportunities Program
Manager at 202-779-0262
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IT P/PM Summit IT P/PM Summit convened by OFPP,
OFCIO, and FAI on December 11 to
address IT PM certification challenge
More than 50 participants; more than
20 agencies / components from CAO,
CIO, and acquisition workforce
management communities
Six cross-agency/discipline
improvement initiatives (w/IPTs)
identified and underway
Interagency Program Management
Executive Steering Board (PM ESB) to
plan, implement, and oversee the
improvement initiatives
For more information, see our
newsletter:
https://www.fai.gov/drupal/sites/defa
ult/files/2016-4-3-FAI-Newsletter-Spring-
2016.pdf
Challenge Statement
Many barriers exist which result
in too few qualified, federally
certified, Program Managers for
IT-related programs, especially
given FITARA
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Six (6) FITARA IT PPM Initiatives 1.Develop Federal IT PPM Workforce Training Asset
Inventory
2.Align IT PPM Talent Management Lifecycle Strategies
3.Improve PPM and FAC PPM Value Propositions
4.Improve, Integrate, and Simplify Competency
5.Identify and Deploy Innovative Learning Strategies
6.Explore Master IT PPM Designation
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Questions?
