The Department of the Navy Systems Engineering Career Competency Model

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Whitcomb, Clifford
Delgado, Jessica
Khan, Rabia
Alexander, Juli
White, Corina
Grambow, Dana
Walter, Paul
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2015-04-30Metadata
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The Naval Postgraduate School is developing a competency model for the profession of
systems engineering. There is currently no professional engineering occupational code
(08XX) for systems engineers, so there is no verified competency model source to use for
human resource functions related to systems engineers. The key objective of the systems
engineering competency career model (SECCM) project is to develop a verified systems
engineering career competency model that can be used as a foundation for establishing
construct validity for SE related human resources actions. To ensure the SE competency
model will be able to be used this way, the SECCM project is having OPM use a standard
approach to verify the occupational analysis in compliance with the Uniform Guidelines on
Employee Selection Procedures (Uniform Guidelines). A verified SECCM provides a valuable
resource as a model that can be used for both key human resource functions as well as for
the consistent career development of systems engineers. The SECCM is based on the Office
of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) ENG Career Field Competency Model, currently used by
the ENG acquisition community. The SECCM has enhanced the current ENG model through
the addition of extensive sets of knowledge, skills, and ability (KSA) statements - each
defined in terms of Bloom’s taxonomy and mapped to each of the higher level system
engineering competencies. Each competency and the associated KSAs are further
partitioned into a series of typical career development points (i.e., from entry level to subject
matter expert), to allow for planning and tracking of a competency-based development of
systems engineers. This paper describes the development of the SECCM, and the current
state of the competency model and verification process.
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