The U.S. Army Acquisition Support Center (USAASC) is a Direct Reporting Unit of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology responsible for providing oversight of the approximately 29,000-strong Army Acquisition Workforce (AAW). The Army Director for Acquisition Career Management (DACM) is the Army’s senior level advocate for all AAW matters. The AAW consists of civilian and military professionals residing in Army staff offices, Army commands, Army service component commands, Capability Program Executive offices, and direct reporting units.
by Brent G. Ingraham
The character of warfare is changing at a pace few institutions were designed to match. Threats are cheaper, faster and more numerous. Technology that once took decades to mature now evolves in months. Our adversaries know this and are adapting accordingly.
Last fall, the Army undertook the most significant acquisition reform in decades, moving from twelve Program Executive Officers to six Portfolio Acquisition Executives, ahead of congressional mandate, before the guidance was fully written. The reorganization was never the point. The point was speed—and the ability to deliver integrated capability at the pace the battlefield demands.
The results are already visible in the way we deliver capability. When...
Renae Florack believes growth has no ceiling—but only if you’re willing to be the one pushing it higher. As a project manager, she sees learning and progress as active pursuits, driven by conscious, continuous effort, rather than circumstance. That mindset shows in how she owns her professional development and consistently advocates for herself, treating both as essential skills, not optional extras. In doing so she proves that momentum is built by those who choose to create it.
The Army is operating in an era defined by strategic competition with China, technological disruption and software-defined warfare. In response to acquisition timelines that often take decades, the Army has shifted toward rapid prototyping, experimentation and accelerated pathways, leveraging Middle Tier Acquisition (MTA) authorities, rapid capability offices and iterative software models to compress delivery timelines and maintain strategic...
