The Office of Federal Procurement Policy, Department of
Defense, and General Services Administration have announced
a partnership to train civilian and defense acquisition
workforces at a shared facility.
“This new partnership will ensure that the right people get
the right training at the right time. We look forward to
working with DoD to ensure that we train our acquisition
workforce to serve the entire federal government, not just a
single agency,” said OFPP administrator David H. Safavian.
OFPP is an arm of the Office of Management and Budget.
The federal acquisition institute, currently under the
direction of OFPP, managed by and located in GSA
headquarters, is to be moved to the defense acquisition
university’s Ft. Belvoir, Va. campus, where OFPP said
acquisition workers would have access to DAU materials
and training, and would adapt DAU courses for civilians.
“This provides a key opportunity to ensure we have the
highly skilled acquisition workforce needed to support
agency missions and to meet federal workforce management
challenges,” said GSA’s chief acquisition officer Emily
Murphy.
