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Training Plan - Systems Engineering

Training Agreement (SCEPTA)
A SCEPTA agreement has been developed for each acquisition career fields. The SCEPTA agreement selected for a student will coincide with the student's academic major. The respective DCMA supervisor with cognizance over the student selected to participate in the Student Career Experience Program will complete this agreement. This form will be completed 5 workdays prior to the date the student reports for duty.

Training Period: Start and end date of training period
Date: Date SCEPTA is completed and all signatures acquired
Student Name/Address/E-mail: List address where student will be residing while participating in program
School Name/Address/Telephone: School name, address, and school program administrator's telephone number
Degree/Major: Indicate the degree the student is pursuing and academic major
Current Academic Year: List calendar school year
Status: Place an "x" in the appropriate block to indicate the student's status
Program of Instruction

This section describe the training events that will make up the student's training plan during their co-op experience with a DCMA activity. The DCMA Human Resources representative and local supervisor will outline the specific activities that will be make up the student's training plan to ensure the training supports the student's academic program of study.

  • Place an "x" in the left box of two or three topic areas. These topics will represent the subject areas the co-op student will receive training during their DCMA experience.
  • Introductions with Senior Management and Command Orientation: Indicate the dates these events are scheduled
  • Multi-Functional Rotations: Each student will rotate for one workday through each of the following offices Contract Operations, Technical Assessment Group, and the Management Support Office; List the date of the scheduled rotation.
  • Special Project: Briefly describe the scope of the assignment in such detail for the student to understand the task, expected outcome, and end product (i.e. report, memo, chart). The topic or subject of the project should be related to the student's academic major.
  • Warfighter Customer Visit: Select a customer site and schedule a three-day to week customer visit for the co-op student. This visit should demonstrate DCMA's support of the Military Service's combat support mission.

Signatures: All appropriate official must sign the training plan to indicate their concurrence with the prescribed actions.

DCMA STUDENT CAREER EXPERIENCE PROGRAM TRAINING PLAN
Systems Engineering
TRAINING PERIOD (mmddyy-mmddyy): Date:
STUDENT NAME/ADDRESS/EMAIL ADDRESS SCHOOL NAME/ADDRESS/TELEPHONE





 
DEGREE/MAJOR STATUS (check one)
Senior  
Junior  
Sophmore  
CURRENT ACADEMIC YEAR  
PROGRAM OF INSTRUCTION:
Description of training activities. Supervisor will select 2 -3 process areas to focus the student's training and development. Place a check in the selected process areas.
1. Understand DCMA's role in the acquisition community by spending time in each of the Agency's functional service areas.
2. Understand the scope of DCMA's transportation services duties by spending time in each of the following areas:
  1. Learn DCMA's role in providing the military service customer with acquisition planning and support services. Participate with the customer in pre-award type activities suggesting approaches to ensuring efficient, cost and mission effective transportation solutions.
  2. Become acquainted with the types of contracts, orders, and other transactions and understand the appropriate uses and limitations of various transportation requirements and solutions.
  3. Discuss with the contractor and the customer the contractor's transportation instructions and ensure an understanding clear understanding of the customer's expectations.
  4. Become acquainted with the types of automated transportation tools and various shipping means and tracking mechanisms and understand and apply them.
  5. Spend time with a contractor and customer transportation offices to understand their perspectives and gain an appreciation of their roles and concerns.
  6. Understand and interpret specifications, drawings, and workmanship standards. Review and understand critical features.
  7. Understand earned value reporting relationships and tools and how they are used in conjunction with the contractor's work breakdown structure to assess project health.
  8. Spend time with contractor and customer systems engineers to understand their perspectives and gain an appreciation of their roles and concerns.
Introductions with Sr Mgmt (date)   Command Orientation
(date)		  
OTHER TRAINING ACTIVITIES
MULTI-FUNCTIONAL ROTATIONS
Name of Office Date
   
   
   
   
SPECIAL PROJECT
Description:
WARFIGHTER CUSTOMER VISIT (Three days - Week)
Examples: 
Unified Combatant Commands (e.g., CENTCOM, SOCOM, SOUTHCOM, etc.)
Naval Shipyards (e.g., Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, etc.)
NASA Centers and Field Facilities (e.g., Johnson Space Center, Goddard Space Flight Center, etc.)
Systems Commands (e.g., MARCORPSYSCOM, ASC, NAVAIR, CECOM, SMC, etc.)
Major defense contractor sites (e.g., General Dynamics Amphibious Systems, etc.)
Others (e.g., Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, etc.)
Director Human Resources:  
College Representative:  
Supervisor:  
CMO Commander:  
Student:  

page last updated on: 03/24/2009 15:41