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.