Defense Acquisition Workforce: Actions Needed to Guide Planning Efforts and Improve Workforce Capability

Abstract

GAO and others have found that DOD needs to take steps to ensure DOD has an adequately sized and capable acquisition workforce to acquire about $300 billion in goods and services annually. DOD is required by statute to develop an acquisition workforce plan every 2 years. DOD issued a plan in 2010, in which it called for the department to increase the size of the acquisition workforce by 20,000 positions by fiscal year 2015, but has not yet updated the plan.

Open PDF

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2015
Accession Number
AD1000500

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Attrition
  • Business Administration
  • Civilian Personnel
  • Congress
  • Contracted Services
  • Department Of Defense
  • Employment
  • Financial Management
  • Governments
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Acquisition
  • Military Personnel
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • United States Government

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management