Acquisition Workforce: Department of Defense's Plans to Address Workforce Size and Structure Challenges
Abstract
In the past decade, the Department of Defense (DOD) has downsized its acquisition workforce by half. It now faces what it considers to be serious imbalances in the skills and experience of its remaining workforce and the potential loss of highly specialized knowledge if many of its acquisition specialists retire. In view of this concern, DOD created the Acquisition 2005 Task Force to study its civilian acquisition workforce and develop a strategy to replenish personnel losses. The Task Force made a series of recommendations to DOD in October 2000. On March 1, 2002, in response to the mandate in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002, DOD reported on its plans to implement these recommendations. The same mandate required us to assess, within 60 days of the date DOD submitted its report, the status of DOD s reported plans to reshape the workforce and to specifically examine the reported status of its efforts to implement the task force s recommendations. Because of the time frames involved, we did not evaluate the effectiveness of DOD s reported efforts.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 01, 2002
- Accession Number
- ADA400925
Entities
Organizations
- United States Government Accountability Office