Federal Manager's Daily Report

The Office of the Secretary of Defense and the defense

agencies lack a comprehensive strategic workforce plan to

guide their human capital efforts, the General Accounting

Office has said.


It said efforts by the component agencies to develop and

implement such plans have generally lacked essential key

elements such as analyses of critical skill and competency

gaps, without which it’s harder to design strategies to hire,

develop and retain the best workforce.


The plans also lacked results-oriented performance measures

necessary for assessing human capital initiative outcomes,

said GAO.


It said DoD is in need of information on current competencies

and those that will be needed in the future as well as the

tools to collect and manage that information. The problem is

not exclusive to DoD, said GAO.

gao.gov.