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September 27, 2018 By AMK

GAO sees progress, more to do on acquisition workforce

The government has made progress to address issues with the acquisition workforce in the decade since a special advisory panel report found that workforce to be “understaffed, overworked, and undertrained,” GAO has said.

That workforce primarily encompasses contracting officers, contracting officer’s representatives and program and project managers, but it also extends to related positions such as engineers, logisticians, and cost estimators, a report said.

Steps in response to that report have included establishing the defense acquisition workforce development fund to help DoD recruit train and retain acquisition personnel and which “has helped DoD close some staffing gaps,” with the department’s acquisition workforce increasing by a quarter in that time. However, the department has not achieved its growth targets for each career field, falling short in six.

Keep reading this article at: https://www.fedweek.com/federal-managers-daily-report/gao-sees-progress-more-to-do-on-acquisition-workforce/

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: Acquisition Advisory Panel, acquisition training, acquisition workforce, competition, Congress, DoD, GAO

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