About the Defense Acquisition Early Career Workforce Advisory Team

The Defense Acquisition Early Career Workforce (ECW) Advisory Team is established to serve as an advisory council that is representative of the early career workforce. The Advisory Team seeks to provide a continuous engagement strategy to shape the future of the Defense acquisition culture and workforce initiatives. The early career workforce is defined as individuals with one to ten years of civilian experience in the Defense Acquisition Workforce.


2021 Defense Acquisition Early Career Workforce Advisory Team Activities

In 2021, the Defense Acquisition ECW Advisory Team is continuing its regular monthly engagements with keynote speakers to learn about Acquisition Workforce or industry hot topics and ongoing challenges. These meetings are arranged by HCI with input from Advisory Team members.

In January, the Cohort welcomed Ms. Pam Jamieson, who provided an update on Back-to-Basics. Mr. Brian Friedrich, Defense Civilian Personnel Advisory Service Labor and Employee Relations Team, joined the Cohort in February to discuss Executive Order 13957 and Office of Personnel Management rule changes. In March, AcqDemo Program Manager Mr. Scott Wortman shared updates to AcqDemo.


Defense Acquisition Early Career Workforce Advisory Team Reflections on Working Virtual During COVID-19

(October 2020) - When the United States declared a National Emergency in response to the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pandemic on March 13, 2020, the declaration marked the start of an unplanned chapter of major change across the nation and for the entire Department of Defense (DoD) team, including the 181,000 members of the defense acquisition workforce, which includes us—the 38,000 Early Career Workforce professionals. As the story goes, homes turned into schools, offices, and day-care facilities—left parents in the acquisition workforce in quite the conundrum – “how will we execute our critical acquisition responsibilities, in partnership with industry, to keep the Warfighter in the fight, while ensuring that the next generation is at the kitchen table doing multiplication and division?!”. READ MORE


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DoD Hosts Early Career Workshop to Serve as Change Initiative Platform for the Acquisition Workforce

(June 2019) - The Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, the Honorable Ellen M. Lord, hosted the inaugural Early Career Workshop (ECW), June 4-6, 2019. The goal of the workshop is to gain an operational perspective of what is working well, what can be improved, and engage this critical subset of our overall acquisition workforce. The workshop will serve as a change initiative platform for the early career workforce, defined as individuals with one to ten years of civilian experience in the Defense Acquisition Workforce, launching a continuous engagement strategy that purposely involves them in shaping their role in the future of acquisition. READ MORE


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Contact

For additional information about the Early Career Workshop Cohort, contact the HCI team at HCIacqworkforce@hci.mil.