DOD Personnel: Further Actions Needed to Strengthen Oversight and Coordination of Defense Laboratories' Hiring Efforts

Abstract

The Department of Defense's (DOD) laboratories (defense labs) have used the laboratory-specific direct hire authorities more than any other category of agency-specific or government-wide hiring authority for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics personnel. As shown below, in fiscal years 2015 - 2017 the labs hired 5,303 personnel out of 11,562 total hires, or 46 percent using these direct hire authorities. Lab officials, however, identified challenges to hiring highly qualified candidates, such as delays in processing security clearances, despite the use of hiring authorities such as direct hire.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 30, 2018
Accession Number
AD1157322

Entities

People

  • Amie Lesser
  • Brenda S. Farrell
  • Charles Culverwell
  • Chelsa Gurkin
  • Cheryl Weissman
  • Christopher Falcone
  • Cynthia Grant
  • Isabel Band
  • Jennifer Weber
  • John Van Schaik
  • Joseph Cook
  • Michael Silver
  • Oliver Richard
  • Robert Goldenkoff
  • Serena Epstein
  • Vincent Balloon
  • Vincent Buquicchio

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

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Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Civilian Personnel
  • Congress
  • Department Of Defense
  • Employment
  • Engineering
  • Governments
  • Law
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Research
  • National Governments
  • National Security
  • Naval Warfare
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Students
  • United States Government
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Personnel Management and Statistics in the Military and Department of Defense
  • Research Science/Academic Research