Acquisition Workforce Training Fund

What this funds

The Acquisition Workforce Training Fund (AWTF) is a permanent, indefinite appropriation providing a source of funds to train the Federal acquisition workforce. The AWTF is financed through a credit of five percent of the fees collected from non-Department of War (DOW) activities by GSA and other civilian agencies that manage Government-wide acquisition contracts, Multiple Award Schedule contracts entered into by GSA, and other multi-agency contracts. Receipts are available for expenditure in the fiscal year collected, in addition to the following two fiscal years. The AWTF is managed by GSA's Federal Acquisition Institute (FAI) in consultation with the Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) and the FAI Board of Directors. The AWTF was created to ensure that the Government's non-defense acquisition workforce has sufficient training resources to adapt to the changing nature of Federal The fund is authorized by 41 U.S.C. ' 1703(i), as amended by Section 854 of Title VII of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 (Public Law 110-181, January 28, 2008). The establishment and operation of FAI is authorized by 41 U.S.C. ' 1201, as amended by Section 864 of Title VIII of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011 Under current law, a portion of the administrative fee on certain Government-wide contracts is set aside and deposited into AWTF to support this training. As contracting requirements and supply chain considerations have grown more complex, the current level of funding has proven inadequate. As the current percentage of five percent has not changed since the AWTF was established in 2003, GSA is considering changes, similar to the fee increase proposed in the FY 2025 Budget, that would allocate a larger share of the fees already paid by Federal agencies to FAI and Defense Acquisition University (DAU). In practice, the majority of the impact would from the use of these contracts but would benefit from the enhanced training that their procurement officials will receive from FAI, which is solely funded by the AWTF. Need for New Acquisition Workforce Training Investment Federal contracting requirements are growing in complexity, with a greater need for services contracting, technology acquisition, and, more recently, supply chain risk concerns. This is true not only for contracting officers but also those program office professionals--namely contracting officer's representatives and program and project managers--who oversee contract performance, all of whom are considered part of the acquisition workforce. Congress has recognized the importance of training to meet these challenges and passed the Supply Chain Security Training Act of 2021 (Pub. L. 117-145) and the Artificial Intelligence Training for the FY 2026 Operating Plan and FY 2027 Budget Request The FY 2027 budget request estimates that GSA will obligate $17.5 million for FAI programs. The Board of Directors has reviewed the FAI programs to identify where additional AWTF funding is most needed to effectively support FAI's mission and goals. AWTF funds are used to FAI supports professional development of the civilian agency acquisition workforce by ensuring the availability of learning and career development opportunities. The funds collected by the AWTF support FAI activities in the following three programs: This program is used for FAI's mission, operational infrastructure, and strategic planning execution. It combines previously defined Human Capital Initiative and Operations and Logistics Support programs funding. The funding provides for FAI personnel salaries, travel, training, and This program is used to develop learning assets and deliver training to the acquisition workforce. It is also used for human-capital research studies and to support Government-wide and Training Delivery programs funding. The funding provides for development, delivery, and maintenance of learning and career development activities, human capital, and acquisition This program is used to support Federal acquisition workforce technology systems and related initiatives. The funding provides for overarching IT operations, maintenance, and enhancement activities, FAI.gov operations and maintenance, and FAI's Cornerstone on Demand support

Extracted from General Services Administration, p. 15. Verbatim; nothing here is paraphrased.

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4 linked contracts. These are obligations — lifetime awarded money — and they are not comparable to the request above and are never added to it. No total is shown: an award linked to several lines is counted in full on each, so the sum would not be a fact.

Confidence mix · 4 certain

Linked contracts are a floor, not a census. Coverage is bounded by how distinctively a program is named and, for performer links, to RDT&E and Procurement — O&M and military construction publish no performers. Budget figures are FY2027 request dollars; contract figures are obligations. The two measure different things and must never be summed together.

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