Acquiring Expertise? Developing Expertise in the Defense Acquisition Workforce

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dc.contributor.authorMullis, William Sterlingen
dc.contributor.committeechairDowney, Gary L.en
dc.contributor.committeememberSnoderly, John Rossen
dc.contributor.committeememberAllen, Barbara L.en
dc.contributor.committeememberSchmid, Sonjaen
dc.contributor.departmentScience and Technology in Societyen
dc.date.accessioned2016-09-21T06:00:17Zen
dc.date.available2016-09-21T06:00:17Zen
dc.date.issued2015-03-30en
dc.description.abstractThe goal of this research project is to tell the story of acquisition expertise development within the DOD using the evolution of the Defense Acquisition University as its backdrop. It is a story about the persistent frame that claims expertise leads to acquisition success. It is about 40 plus years of competing perspectives of how best to acquire that expertise and their shaping effects. It is about technology choices amidst cultural and political conflict. It is about how budget, users, infrastructure, existing and emerging technologies, identity and geography all interrelate as elements within the technology of expertise development. Finally, it is about how at various times in the evolution of the Defense Acquisition University the technologies of tacit knowledge transfer have been elevated or diminished.en
dc.description.degreePh. D.en
dc.format.mediumETDen
dc.identifier.othervt_gsexam:4881en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/72963en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectdefense acquisitionen
dc.subjecttacit knowledgeen
dc.subjecttacit specialty expertiseen
dc.subjectUnited States Department of Defenseen
dc.subjectsocial construction of technologyen
dc.titleAcquiring Expertise? Developing Expertise in the Defense Acquisition Workforceen
dc.typeDissertationen
thesis.degree.disciplineScience and Technology Studiesen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.leveldoctoralen
thesis.degree.namePh. D.en

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