Jodi McCallum
JODI E. MCCALLUM is an instructor and member of the contracting faculty at AFIT. She has been a member of the acquisition workforce for over 17 years and has worked in a variety of roles in the contracting career field including contract specialist, contracting officer and quality assurance program coordinator. As a member of the contracting faculty in AFIT/LSB, she serves as a subject-matter expert for Contracting and performs a wide variety of duties and responsibilities that include carrying out instruction, curriculum development, administration, research, and consultation in support of the AFIT mission to educate defense professionals. She is principally responsible for instructing the Mission Ready Contracting course (MRC 103), the Air & Space Force’s badge-awarding course for contracting professionals. This five-week hybrid course is given to over 500 acquisition professionals each year and is required for all new officer accessions and select civilians.
Additionally, she is a course director and instructor of WSYS 167 Command the Deal: Leveraging Negotiation Psychology for Mission Success, a traveling course which is designed to help acquisition professionals look beyond just the process of negotiation to what drives people, so they can build consensus and alignment for effective execution of mission requirements.
Ms. McCallum is also a proud veteran of the United States Navy and the New Mexico Army National Guard prior to joining the Department of the Air Force in 2008.
Course Instructor
MRCO 103 Mission Ready Contracting Course
WSYS 167 Command the Deal: Leveraging Negotiation Psychology for Mission Success
Course Director
WSYS 167 Command the Deal: Leveraging Negotiation Psychology for Mission Success
Areas of Interest & Consulting
Acquisitions
Contracting
Negotiations
Services Contracts
Source Selections
Quality Assurance
Post-award administration and contract management
Education
1997 Bachelor of Science, Sociology & Religion, Eastern New Mexico University, Portales, NM
2013 Master of Arts - Management, Wayland Baptist University, Plainview, TX
DAF Experience
2023 – Present: Course Instructor/Director, Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), Wright-Patterson AFB, OH
2019 – 2023: Contracting Officer/Quality Assurance Program Coordinator, AFMISC AFICC/771 Enterprise Sourcing Squadron (ESS), Wright-Patterson AFB, OH
2011 – 2019: Contract Specialist, AFLCMC/Hanscom-OL, Strategic Warning and Surveillance Systems Division, Peterson AFB, CO
2008 – 2011: Contract Specialist, 27th Special Operations Contracting Squadron, Cannon AFB, NM
Certifications
Warranted Contracting Officer
Contracting (Level I, II, & III) Acquisition Professional Development Program
Program Management (Level I) Acquisition Professional Development Program