Month: June 2013

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Defense Acquisition Certification

Here is a post that I hope is helpful to others out there who can be paralyzed from taking action to getting professional acquisition certifications. What is the official name and background of this program? The official name is the Acquisition Professional Development Program. The Acquisition Professional Development Program (APDP) promotes the development and sustainment of a professional acquisition workforce in the Air Force. It is DoD wide. You need it because certain jobs will require you to have it. Good acquisition organizations take this seriously, because it is an easy way to weed folks out from future jobs.

Where are the best places for information? Here are the links I found useful:

  • AF acquisition careers You can find an overview of the program and the useful sites here.
  • What are the requirements for each level?Follow the guidelines for your discipline here: dap.dau.mil.
  • How do I know what level I am? Go to Acquisition Career Management System but you might need to go to (afpc secure ) first. The purpose is to go to My Civilian APDP Record and
  • Where do I sign up for courses?here
  • What is the continuous learning requirement? 80 points over two years.

What is the road ahead for me? I have a level 3 certification due date of 2014-06-03. My acquistion position is “ACQUISITION POSITION NOTCRITICAL OR DEVELOPMENTAL” and my position title is that I am a “GENERAL ENGINEER”.

What classes have I completed? 2013-11-05 SYS 101 GRADUATED 2012-08-24 CON 115 GRADUATED 2012-07-25 PMT 251 GRADUATED 2012-06-28 SAM 101 GRADUATED 2003-08-01 TST 101 GRADUATED 2003-04-18 ACQ 201B GRADUATED 2003-02-21 ACQ 201A GRADUATED 2001-12-28 ACQ 101 GRADUATED Latest continuous learning points are from: 2012-08-24 34.0 CON 115. How can I get more continous learning points? (It looks like there is a whole web site on this. I’m going to focus on getting the courses done for L2 SPRDE-SYSTEMS ENGINEER, and hope that gets me more than enough CL points.)

Continuous Learning Status My status is “CURRENT”. My last suspense was 2012-07-25 (for what?) POINTS TO DATE: 34 (what does this mean?) SUSPENSE: 2014-07-25 (this requires attention — what does that mean)

Current plan? I need to take the following: * Log 103 * Sys 101 (just as a pre-req) * Sys 202 * Sys 203 * CLE 003

Welcome TIMOTHY - here is a summary of your progress toward earning 80 Continuous Learning points (CLPs) every 24 months:

The Personnel System shows that you are in an Acquisition Coded position, and you are required to earn 80 CL points within 24 months.

 Currently, your CL suspense date is:     7/25/2014
ACQNow CL points earned this period:     34
Points needed:                                    46

 If you do not have any upcoming CL events scheduled, you might consider the following methods of earning points to help you meet the goal:
- a DAU Web based course (click here)
- a DAU Continuous Learning Module (click here)
- an AFIT Module (click here)

What/where is a list of different types of certification levels you can get?

  • Contracting
  • Systems Engineering
  • Financial Management
  • Program Management
  • Information Technology
  • Logistics
  • Scientific Research and Development
  • Test and Evaluation
  • Production, Manufacturing & Quality Assurance

So I need to get certified in Systems Engineering

Level 1 (Done)

  • Acq 101 (done)
  • Sys 101 (done)
  • CLE 001
  • CLM 017

Level 2

  • ACQ 201 A/B (done)
  • LOG 103 (20 CLP) (working now)
  • SYS 202 (9 CLP) (done)
  • SYS 203 (36 CLP)

  • CLE 003

  • 2 Year Experience, BS

Level 3

  • SYS 302
  • CLE 012
  • CLE 068

  • CLL 008

  • 4 year experience

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Find corrupted images

So I deleted all my pictures, and I restored them which resulted in a bunch of corrupted images; thousands of corrupted images. To fix this, I wrote the following script in MATLAB using the image processing toolbox:

// insert blog here

Using matlab I tried to determine what a corrupted image is. First when using the image processing toolbox to open an image, I noticed:

g = imread(s);
Warning: JPEG library error (8 bit), "Corrupt JPEG data: premature end of data segment"."
Warning: JPEG library error (8 bit), "Invalid JPEG file structure: two SOI markers"."

Also, a histogram of such a file looked liked this:

histogram

So, the only challenge is to find the spike, or simply a crazy high percent of 128, the mean value. Simple enough.

cd('/media/95543211-fd8f-4fc9-9b24-3a787113e4c2/+JPEG');
jpegs = dir('.');

num_files = 100;

file_count = length(jpegs);

G = zeros(1,num_files-2);

for i = 3:(num_files+2)
    name = jpegs(i).name;
    disp(['working: ' name]);
    if true
        try
         I = rgb2gray(imread(name));
         [w, l] = size(I);
         gray_percent = sum(sum(I==128))/(w*l);
         G(i-2) = gray_percent;
         if gray_percent > 0.07
           disp(['moving . . . ' name]);
           movefile(name, ['too_much_gray/' name]);
         else
           disp(['good: ' name]);
           movefile(name, ['noerr/' name]);
         end
        catch
         disp(['bad: ' name]);
        end

    end
end

Then a script to see which images might be corrupt:

And a ruby script to move the results (yeah — really inefficient, I know).

So files that might crash matlab are at least removed.

#!/bin/bash

for f in *
do
  # echo "Processing $f file..."
  # take action on each file. $f store current file name
  if ! identify "$f" &> /dev/null; then
     echo "$f"
  fi
done

and (yes, this is silly)

#!/home/bonhoeffer/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p286/bin/ruby
filez = <<EOF
__003999
__026328
__029322
__032335
__035823
__035842
__036090
__038688
__039670
__048554
__048561
__048634
19991215_22_43_43_033877
19991215_22_43_43_034820
19991215_22_43_43_049844
19991215_22_43_56_038011
19991215_22_44_16_010202
20070729_14_42_57_048540
EOF

puts filez.split(' ').size

filez.split(' ').each do |f|
	puts "mv #{f} matlab_bad/#{f}"
	`mv #{f} matlab_bad/#{f}`
end