Vance Gilstrap serves as the Dean, Capital and Northeast Region, for Defense Acquisition University (DAU). As the Dean, he is responsible for directing DAU’s training, consulting, and acquisition leadership support to acquisition programs in the greater National Capital Region and throughout the Northeast US, including nearly 50,000 acquisition workforce members. He directs DAU’s training, credentialing, and acquisition consulting missions to PEOs, PMs, acquisition programs and Agencies, and workforce members, to implement Presidential, Congressional, & SECDEF guidance for training certification and to improve acquisition outcomes.

• Responsible for DAU’s training, consulting, and acquisition leadership support to DoD Acquisition
• Directs DAU’s training, credentialing, and acquisition consulting missions to PEOs, acquisition and services programs, Defense Agencies, and 50,000 DoD Acquisition Workforce members
• Leads over 100 faculty and staff in delivery of training and consulting in every acquisition functional area and many specialty knowledge areas such as Agile development, project management, cyber protection, cloud migration, DevSecOps, risk analysis, and source selection