The Office of Management and Budget has released a new policy letter, No. 05-01, setting a new body of policies on managing and developing federal employees involved in acquisition. The letter primarily: defines the acquisition workforce to include additional acquisition-related functions and create a multi-disciplined acquisition community; aligns non-Department of Defense and DoD acquisition workforce training requirements so that the acquisition workforce has common, core training that will promote workforce mobility; and emphasizes the importance to federal managers and the workforce of continuous learning, to include training on critical subjects such as ethics, performance-based contracting, and other areas.