a. Summary. Acquisition professional candidates are members of the acquisition work force. They assist in planning, directing, coordinating, and supervising specific functional areas that pertain no the acquisition of equipment/weapons. This MOS wi1l be assigned only as a skill designator MOS.

b. Requirements/Prerequisites

(1) Will be automatically assigned to members of the acquisition work force who have completed a successful tour of two years in length in an acquisition billet.

(2) May apply for the MOS after accumulating two years of acquisition experience from duties performed while assigned to an officially designated acquisition billet.

(3) Secret security clearance.

c. Duties. The acquisition professional candidate participates as an associate project officer primarily assigned to provide expertise to acquisition management officers in highly technical functional areas that pertain to the acquisition of equipment and weapon systems. The responsibilities may range from providing assistance in the areas of project initiation, systems development, systems engineering, test and evaluation management, integrated logistics support management, systems manpower and training requirements, life-cycle system support management, etc. to the management of project technical data and documentation.

d. Related DOT Classification/DOT Code. Operations-Research Analyst 020.067-018.

Information Derived From MCO P1200.7V Part 1. Current as of Nov 00