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Acquisition challenges, 2008 and beyond: the new administration needs to rebuild the workforce, properly oversee it, and correctly use performance-based acquisition.(Forum: The Next President's Management Agenda)
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The Public Manager
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March 22, 2008
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As we head into 2008, federal acquisition faces a long list of challenges; three of the most pressing are the workforce, oversight, and performance-based acquisition.
Workforce
The key challenge for federal acquisition is rebuilding the workforce to give it the right size and right skills. There simply are not enough people to do the work, which greatly increased in volume and complexity at the same time that the workforce was slightly declining (Figure 1). Some of those remaining in the workforce lack the skills to handle task order awards, much less the award of original contracts to support major programs.
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