Category: Acquisition Corps

  • Aberdeen Proving Ground

    February 3, 2010

    By: Colonel Jonas Vogelhut


    Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG) Maryland is a wonderful place to live and work. Nestled between Baltimore and Philadelphia, we have an excellent workforce comprised of Soldiers, other service members, Government Civilians, and Contractors. Our base is unique in the extreme growth we are feeling now and will continue to have over the next two years. The Base Realignment and Closure Act of 2005 mandated other bases close and send their jobs to APG. There are tremendous opportunities on...read more

  • Is Army culture vanishing with contractors?

    February 1, 2010

    By: Major John Pratt


    Deploy down range today and you'll see a number of contractors working alongside the military doing a number of tasks. Estimates now say that there are approximately 7 to 1 ratio of civlian to military in combat. That is a significant amount. Why has the military and specifically from an Army perspective that there are so many civlilans in Iraq or Afghanistan? Has the Army lost it's ability to do our mission by ourselves? We have either downsized or consolidated specialized tasks that we no...read more

  • Thank you 82nd Airborne

    January 22, 2010

    By: Colonel Jonas Vogelhut


    Thank you brave Soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division for your dedication to our nation and willing support to those in need in Haiti. It always amazes me to see our young men and women ready in a few hours notice to leave there home and deploy to a foreign nation willing to support our neighbors and help the fallen. Working long days and sleeping in the open or in small tents, they show a tremendous positive attitude that things will get better and that our nation is here to support them. As...read more

  • Acquisition Workforce

    January 12, 2010

    By: Colonel Jonas Vogelhut


    I, like most in the acquisition workforce, work each day striving to get capability to warfighters. Proven equipment Soldiers can use today to dominate on the battlefield. My current organization is unique because we handle a portfolio of different equipment, focusing on Situational Awareness, Force Protection, and Target Acquisition. The Soldiers, DoD Civilians and contractors in my organization work the development and sustainment of systems and rapidly transform...read more

  • Acquisition Corps - Hooah!

    January 8, 2010

    By: Colonel Jonas Vogelhut


    If your reading this, either you stumbled to the wrong site or your interested in the Acquisition Corps. I will work each week to create a blog about the Acquisition Corps, the great work the Corps does to provide for Soldiers and Warfighters, and the opportunities the Corps provides for officers looking to work a functional area and make a tremendous impact to our Army. As an overview, I provide the Acqusition Corps Vision and Mission from our web site....read more