International Acquisition

Pentagon acquisition chief Frank Kendall has authorized the expansion of a career specialization in international acquisition.

In a Sept. 2 memo, Kendall writes:

The role international acquisition plays as an integral part of DOD's overall acquisition efforts has never been more critical. Increasingly, acquisition officials in many fields are involved in and have major responsibilities for international acquisition. The identification of all International Acquisition (Int Acq)  positions will ensure that acquisition workforce personnel -- regardless of position category -- will receive priority for training for successful performance. I hereby authorize the coding of Intl Acq Specialty positions in any functional areas.

Consequently, personnel engaged in "implementing or providing support to international cooperative research, development, engineering, test and evaluation, acquisition, life-cycle logistics, foreign military sales, direct commercial sales, building partner capacity transfers, and exportability integration" should have their job description categories include international acquisition, Kendall states.