Acquisition Workforce Growth and Recommendations for Insourcing

Abstract

The Deputy Secretary of Defense and the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics (USD(AT&L)), in an effort to grow a highly-skilled acquisition workforce, requested the Defense Business Board form a Task Group to identify smart strategies for increasing the acquisition workforce, including policies and plans that will help bring previously outsourced jobs back into the Department of Defense (DoD). The leadership asked the Board to provide best practice recommendations that support the Department's "insourcing" strategy. They also asked the Task Group to carefully consider how the Department can best rapidly acquire and prepare/train the talent it seeks in order to prevent pitfalls that might lead to unintended gaps in expertise and quality. The Task Group also considered the impact an insourcing strategy will have on the existing contractor base's ability to support DoD throughout the transition. A copy of the official Terms of Reference (TOR) may be found at Appendix A.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA518996

Entities

Organizations

  • Defense Business Board

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Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Best Practices
  • Business Administration
  • Civilian Personnel
  • Contracts
  • Department Of Defense
  • Employment
  • Government Procurement
  • Governments
  • Human Resources
  • Law
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Acquisition
  • National Security
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Systems Engineering

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  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.