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63A Acquisition Manager

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Overview

An Acquisition Manager gets necessary equipment and supplies to the locations where they are needed. The manager oversees this support throughout the life cycle of an engagement.

Minimum clearance: Top Secret

Core Skills

  • Engineering, test, and deployment integration
  • Acquisition program internal control design
  • Production, quality, and logistics integration

Civilian Career Paths

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Purchasing Managers

Managing defense acquisition programs and establishing internal controls provides a foundation for directing purchasing activities and developing purchasing procedures.

How to prepare: Build a sample purchasing procedure that covers vendor evaluation, approval controls, and contract-conformance review to practice the commercial purchasing aspects of this role.

What the civilian work involves
  • Develop and implement purchasing and contract management instructions, policies, and procedures.
  • Direct and coordinate activities of personnel engaged in buying, selling, and distributing materials, equipment, machinery, and supplies.
  • Review purchase order claims and contracts for conformance to company policy.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • SAP software

Logisticians

Integrating logistics support with production, quality assurance, and program control transfers to coordinating logistics activities and reviewing support performance.

How to prepare: Create a sample logistics performance review that compares support results with customer targets and identifies corrective actions.

What the civilian work involves
  • Develop an understanding of customers' needs and take actions to ensure that such needs are met.
  • Review logistics performance with customers against targets, benchmarks, and service agreements.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • SAP software

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. DAFOCD, 30 Apr 26: ACQUISITION MANAGER (63A)

    [1] AFSC 63A4/63A3/63A1 ladder over 'ACQUISITION MANAGER (Changed 31 Oct 25)'; 1. Specialty Summary and 2. Duties and Responsibilities; cached text lines 10380-10405; PDF p.242 (printed p.280)

    PDF page 242 (opens in a new tab)

    Supports: Engineering, test, and deployment integration, Acquisition program internal control design, Production, quality, and logistics integration, Purchasing Managers (O*NET 11-3061.00), Logisticians (O*NET 13-1081.00)

  2. O*NET: Purchasing Managers

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Open source document (opens in a new tab)

    Supports: Purchasing Managers (O*NET 11-3061.00)

  3. O*NET: Logisticians

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Open source document (opens in a new tab)

    Supports: Logisticians (O*NET 13-1081.00)

Defense contractor jobs for 63A

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