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Certification & Core Plus Development Guides

Certification & Core Plus Development Guides

Welcome to the Defense Acquisition University’s Interactive Catalog version of the DoD Acquisition, Technology & Logistics (AT&L) career field Certification & Core Plus Development Guides. The career field guides on this site represent the most current career field certification standards required of Defense Acquisition Workforce personnel depending on the career field/path and level (I, II, or III) assigned to the workforce member's acquisition position. It also represents the most current recommendations for continuing training and education depending on the workforce member's type of assignment within their career field/path. Select your guide either from the menu on the left or from the table below.

Changes to the Certification & Core Plus Development Guides: 

The Certification and Core Plus Development Guides were initially implemented on October 1, 2007. While changes to the certification standards are normally implemented on October 1, of any given year, other aspects of the guide, in particular the Core Plus component may be modified throughout the year. Besides linking directly to the guide listed, the table below identifies the date of the most recent publishing.

Review all Changes since October 1, 2007

Last Change Recorded: June 23, 2010

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Position Category Descriptions (PCDs)

Career Field

Date Last Modified

Level I

Level II

Level III

AUD Auditing 1-Oct-07 1-Oct-07 1-Oct-07
BUS-CE Business - Cost Estimating 1 Apr 09 27 Apr 10 1 Apr 09
BUS-FM Business - Financial Management 1 Apr 09 1 Apr 09 27 Apr 10
CON Contracting 17 Jun 10 27 Apr 10 17 Jun 10
FE Facilities Engineering 1-Aug-08 1-Oct-07 12-May-09
IND Industrial/Contract Property Management 1-Oct-07 17 Jun 10 1-Aug-08
IT Information Technology 27 Apr 10 27 Apr 10 27 Apr 10
LCL Life Cycle Logistics 23 Jun 10 23 Jun 10 23 Jun 10
PM Program Management 6-Aug-08 10 May 10 10 May 10
PQM Production, Quality and Manufacturing 1-Oct-07 27 Apr 10 27 Apr 10
PUR Purchasing 17 Jun 10 17 Jun 10 1-Oct-07
SPRDE-SE Systems Planning, Research, Development and Engineering – Systems Engineering 12 May 10 12 May 10 12 May 10
SPRDE-PSE Systems Planning, Research, Development and Engineering – Program Systems Engineer 12 May 10 12 May 10 12 May 10
SPRDE-S&TM Systems Planning, Research, Development and Engineering – Science and Technology Manager 7-May-09 6-Aug-08 27 Apr 10
T&E Test & Evaluation 27 Apr 10 27 Apr 10 27 Apr 10