About SSCF
The Army Senior Service College Fellowship is a 10-month senior-level educational and leadership development program sponsored by the Office of the Army Director, Acquisition Career Management. SSCF prepares selected senior Army civilians and military equivalents for strategic leadership across the Army Acquisition Enterprise, including service as Capability Program Executives, Portfolio Acquisition Executives, senior program and portfolio leaders, and other key acquisition leadership positions.
SSCF is conducted through the Redstone Arsenal Seminar and the Virtual Seminar and remains the Army’s only civilian fellowship approved as Senior Service College equivalent. The program received Senior Service College equivalency from the Army G-3/5/7 on 28 March 2013.
The SSCF curriculum develops strategic civilian leaders through three enduring pillars: Leadership, Acquisition, and National Security Strategy. Fellows engage in graduate studies, strategic research, PMT 4010, national security policy and strategy, industry and military engagements, mentoring, distinguished guest practitioner sessions, book reviews, and applied leadership development.
Aligned with Army and Department of War acquisition transformation, SSCF prepares Fellows to lead in a portfolio-centered acquisition environment focused on speed, rigor, accountability, industrial base capacity, data-informed decisions, and delivery of warfighting capability at scale.
Mission & Vision
Mission: Develop strategic civilian acquisition leaders who can think critically, lead with character, integrate national security strategy with portfolio-centered acquisition execution, and deliver effective warfighting capability in support of Army and Department of War priorities.
Vision: The Army’s premier civilian senior leader development program for preparing acquisition leaders to lead portfolios, strengthen the industrial base, and deliver warfighting capability at speed and scale.
Desired Outcomes
Leadership
SSCF graduates will be prepared to lead people, programs, portfolios, and organizations through complexity, ambiguity, change, and operational pressure.
They will demonstrate strategic thinking, executive communication, ethical judgment, enterprise perspective, coaching, influence, and the ability to challenge assumptions while making evidence-informed decisions.
Acquisition
SSCF graduates will be prepared to lead in a transformed acquisition environment built around CPEs, PAEs, portfolio accountability, acquisition flexibility, data-driven decision-making, industrial base awareness, and rapid delivery of warfighting capability.
They will understand how to balance speed, rigor, cost, schedule, performance, sustainment, technical risk, and mission outcomes across programs and portfolios.
National Security Strategy
SSCF graduates will be prepared to connect national security strategy, Army priorities, global security dynamics, military history, industrial capacity, and Joint/Army operational needs to acquisition decisions.
They will understand how acquisition leadership contributes to deterrence, readiness, modernization, allied and partner capability, and warfighting advantage.
Potential Applicants
- Do you aspire to become a senior leader?
- Have you reached a point in your civil service career where you have senior experience but are not sure how to reach the next level?
- Are you recognized for your ethics, hard work, accomplishments, and leadership potential?
- Are you a Defense Acquisition Corps member at the GS–14/15 Level or an equivalent?
If your answer to each of these questions is YES, you may want to apply for the Senior Service College Fellowship program.
For more information about the fellowship, please visit the U.S. Army Acquisition Support Center site.