Further actions are needed to improve DoD’s civilian strategic workforce plan covering about 718,000 full-time civilians, GAO has said.
According to the plan DoD intends to hire 10,000 acquisition personnel and in-source another 10,000 by fiscal 2015, reduce duplication, overhead and excess while instilling a culture of restraint, reduce funding for service support contractors, freeze the number of DoD civilian senior executives and flag officers at the fiscal year 2010 level, and reduce the number of senior executive by 150 by spring of 2011.
GAO said the plan driving these efforts and others addresses five and partially addresses nine of 14 requirements in the fiscal 2010 national defense authorization act pertaining to the entire workforce and needs further development.
For example, the plan addresses the requirement to assess critical skills, but only partially addresses requirements such as assessing competency gaps, identifying specific strategies for developing and training its civilian employee workforce, and assessing the department’s progress in implementing the workforce plan with results-oriented performance measures, according to GAO-10-814R.
