Press Release
Defense Acquisition University Signs Memorandum of Agreement with
Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled
March 22, 2002
For immediate release
Contact: Annmarie Hart-Bookbinder
Public Affairs Specialist
Phone: (703) 603-0174
Fax: (703) 603-0655
email: abookbinder@jwod.gov
Ft. Belvoir, VA-In an effort to provide state-of-the-art online
education and training to the Defense acquisition community while
maximizing Federal agency awareness of products and services provided
by people who are blind or have other severe disabilities under
the Javits-Wagner-O'Day (JWOD) Act, the Defense Acquisition University
(DAU), signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) today with the Committee
for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled, the
Federal agency that administers the JWOD Program. Signatories of
the Agreement were Rita Wells, Ph.D., Deputy Executive Director
of the Committee staff, and Frank J. Anderson, Jr., President, DAU.
This Agreement details a Committee staff employee to DAU to assist
with e-learning curriculums. This will enable DAU to enhance and
update training references and information on the requirements of
the JWOD Program as authorized by the Federal Acquisition Regulation
(FAR). DAU has also agreed to assist the Committee in building a
continuous JWOD learning course to be hosted by DAU.
For both DAU and the JWOD Program, which have supported each other's
initiatives in the past, this Agreement provides an important new
partnering opportunity to meet common acquisition education goals.
For DAU, a new e-learning curriculum will provide its end users
across the globe with access to the training they need when they
need it. For the JWOD Program, inclusion in DAU's curriculum will
provide the greatest number of Defense Acquisition personnel with
the information they need to find JWOD solutions to their product
and service needs. With the unemployment rate for Americans with
severe disabilities holding steady at over seventy percent, partnerships
with Federal agencies such as DAU are crucial to the JWOD Program
as it strives to create new employment opportunities for Americans
who are blind or have other severe disabilities on Federal product
and service contracts.
For more information on DAU, visit www.dau.mil.
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