With an eye toward shaping a professional, agile and motivated defense acquisition workforce, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Materiel Readiness recently issued a memorandum entitled “Recommended Continuous Learning Opportunities for the Life Cycle Logistics Career Field, FY 18-19”. In it, he suggests opportunities to assist life cycle logisticians in achieving their 80 hour continuous learning requirement while at the same time providing recommendations for continuous learning modules specifically relevant to recent policy changes and key initiatives within the Department. According to the memo, “these modules are available through the Defense Acquisition University (DAU) website and span logistics, cross-functional areas, and executive leadership. These training opportunities are not required; they are merely a list of suggested current topics to enhance knowledge and skills.” They include:

• HBS 404 - Career Management
• HBS 415 - Ethics at Work
• HBS 425 - Managing Upward
• CLM 058 - Critical Thinking
• CLL 006 - Public-Private Partnerships
• CLL 008 - Designing for Supportability in DoD Systems
• CLB 008 - Program Execution
• CLC 013 - Services Acquisition
• CLE 003 -Technical Reviews
• CLR 252 - Developing Performance Attributes

He goes on to indicate that “another opportunity to achieve CLPs is for the individual to complete current LCL certification courses and LCL continuous learning modules that have been added or revised since the time of their certification. In particular, I recommend ACQ 315 Understanding Industry (Business Acumen) to reinforce our leadership's desire to understand and foster relationships with our industry partners.

The current LCL certification requirements can be found by selecting the LCL career field at: http://icatalog.dau.mil/onlinecatalog/CareerLvl.aspx#. A complete list of continuous learning modules is available at: http://icatalog.dau.mil/onlinecatalog/tabnavcl.aspx.”