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acquisition environment is influenced by each organization's mission support strategy, successful customer relationships, and core principles of decision making. This lesson provides you with an opportunity to guide your actions and to research and develop a strategy so you can recognize when your efforts support the mission. In this lesson, you will cite key components of successful customer relationships and describe how your office achieves success through the key relationship criteria it
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