The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has
issued a workforce strategy, saying that while it
“realizes it’s not possible to ‘solve the problem,'”
of significant uncovered capacity, it plans to put
in place a structure to alleviate current imbalances
by relying on workforce flexibilities.
Another central component to its plan is to build ten
strong and healthy centers, saying that foundation is
fundamental to ensuring core capabilities.
That process would include realigning major program-
level work packages among these centers, and would
“reduce current uncovered capacity to manageable levels.”
NASA said that while it would use personnel transfers
between centers to eliminate skill mismatches, the key
focus would be on retraining to ensure an equitable
balance of talent and work needed to sustain all ten
centers.