Army Systems Engineering Career Development Model.

摘要

The Army Improved Systems Engineering (SE) Career Development System (CDS) report begins with a description of the evolution of the baseline CDS, composed of: a) an assumed input of Army Engineering Career Field individuals whose careers are then developed through the five major elements of education, experience, tenure, currency, and cross-functional competencies integrated by career management and mentorship; and b) an objective output of a future pool of engineering Key Leadership Position (KLP) candidates. Research objectives focused on expanding the CDS elements of Education and Experience, Tenure and Cross-Functional Competencies, Mentorship, and Continuing Learning Modules (CLM). Discovery activities are then illustrated and followed by research findings described in terms of strengths, limitations, observations and recommendations for each subtask. The report concludes with summary observations resulting from a holistic perspective of the four subtasks and three major career development recommendations. Specifically those recommendations focus on: improving the transition from Engineering Level III-to-KLP, a shift to the use of value propositions as career development objectives as an explicit way of assessing and documenting individual capability demonstrations, and development of an Integrated Professional Development Planning and Measurement tool in the form of a Professional Development Decision Support System.