Attendance at resident CGSC, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, offers special opportunities for AAC officers. Officers who did not attend fully funded ACS should pursue an advanced degree in a technical, scientific or managerial field. Every effort should be made to ensure that one acquisition assignment in this time period is operationally related. Assignments in materiel fielding, division or corps force modernization, contingency contracting at division, corps or Army level, and operational testing help keep AAC officers current in the operational art and sensitive to the needs of the warfighter. Officers who did not attend fully funded ACS should complete an advanced degree in a technical, scientific, business or managerial field.
Attendance is mandatory to be a product manager.
Pursue, at this level, civilian academic opportunities directly related to specific duty position requirements. Short course and seminar study programs may be available as required for specific duty positions. Attendance is mandatory to be a project manager. Army Acquisition Corps officers can expect to be considered for joint duty assignments since over twenty percent of AAC billets are joint duty authorizations. However, FA 51 officers are exempt under the Secretary of Defense Scientific and Technical waiver category from the joint duty requirement in Title IV of the DOD Reorganization Act of 1986 for eligibility for promotion to brigadier general.