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Policy

Office of Federal Procurement Policy

Guidance for Specialized Information Technology Acquisition Cadres.  (pdf)  (July 21, 2011)

Department of Defense

Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA)

OFPP Policy Letter Letter 05-01.  (PDF Version)

White House

Executive Order Amending Executive Order 12989, as Amended.  (June 9, 2008)

Office of Federal Procurement Policy

The Federal Acquisition Certification for Contracting Officer
Technical Representatives
.  (pdf)  (November 26, 2007)

Plans for hiring reemployed annuitants to fill acquisition-related positions.  (September 4, 2007)

Supplemental Emergency Contracting Cadre.  (pdf)  (July 30, 2007)

Office of Management and Budget

Validating and Monitoring Agency Issuance of Personal Identity Verification Credentials.  (pdf)  (July 11, 2007)

Office of Federal Procurement Policy

The Federal Acquisition Certification for Program and Project Managers.  (pdf)  (April 25, 2007)

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Audits

Department of Homeland Security

FEMA’s Contracting Officer’s Technical Representative Program.  (2MB, pdf)  (September 23, 2011)

General Services Administration

Review of the Acquisition Career Management Information System.  (3MB, pdf)  (August 18, 2011)

Federal Aviation Administration

FAA Policies and Plans are Insufficient to Ensure an Adequate and Effective Acquisition Workforce.  (August 15, 2011)

Environmental Protection Agency

EPA’s Contracts and Grants Workforce May Face Future Workload Issues Highlights.  (pdf)  (October 27, 2010)

Department of Energy

The National Nuclear Security Administration's Site Office Training and Staffing.  (pdf)  (June 14, 2010) 

Government Accountability Office

The Office of Management and Budget's Acquisition Workforce Development Strategic Plan for Civilian Agencies.  (pdf)  (April 26, 2010)

Department of State

Review of the Department of State Plan to Provide Qualified Contracting Officers and Contracting Officer Representatives for Oversight of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Projects.  (pdf)  (March 9, 2010)

Department of Energy

The Department of Energy's Acquisition Workforce and its Impact on Implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.  (pdf)  (April 2, 2009)

Internal Revenue Service

Workforce Planning Efforts Are Hindered by a Lack of Comprehensive Information on Employee Skills Levels (February 25, 2009) 

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News

Office of Federal Procurement Policy

Attracting Talent to the Acquisition Workforce.  (pdf)  (February 8, 2011)

Department of Defense

Department hires acquisitions workers to help reforms.  (May 20, 2010)

White House

Improving the Federal Recruitment and Hiring Process.  (May 12, 2010)

Office of Personnel Management

Hiring Reform.  (May 12, 2010)

More News

Hearings

House Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and Procurement Reform

Webcast and statements from a November 16, 2011, hearing entitled—On the Frontlines in the Acquisition Workforce's Battle Against Taxpayer Waste (November 17, 2011)

Commission on Wartime Contracting

Statements from a September 16, 2010, hearing entitled:  The Contingency Acquisition Workforce: What is needed and how do we get there?  (September 17, 2010) 

Senate Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia

May 20, 2009, hearing entitled Balancing Act: Efforts to Right-Size the Federal Employee-to-Contractor Mix.  (May 21, 2010)

Federal Acquisition Institute

FAI's latest annual report FY 2008 Annual Report on the Federal Acquisition Workforce. (pdf)  This is a 3.5MB document.  (August 11, 2009)

Senate Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia

Archived webcast from an August 5, 2009, hearing entitled:   Strengthening the Federal Acquisition Workforce: Government-wide Leadership and Initiatives.  (August 6, 2009)

House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee

Testimony for the hearing:  Acquisition Workforce: Merely a Business Expense or a Force Multiplier for the Warfighter?  (April 29, 2009)

House Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and Procurement

Testimony for the Hearing: The United States Agency for International Development (USAID): Management Challenges and Strategic Objectives.  Also see testimony from the Government Accountability Office.  (April 29, 2009)

House Armed Services Committee

Statements from an April 1, 2009, Readiness Subcommittee hearing on the National Security Personnel System – The Way Forward.  Video Webcast.

Chairmen.

Program Executive Officer, National Security Personnel System, Department of Defense.

Director, Defense Capabilities and Management, Government Accountability Office

Director, Office of Policy and Evaluation, Merit Systems Protection Board.

National President, Federal Managers Association.  (April 2, 2009)

Senator Tom Coburn

Report entitled "Justice Denied."  (October 31, 2008)

House Subcommittee on the Federal Workforce, Postal Service, and the District of Columbia

Statements from a September 11, 2008, hearing on H.R. 4272, an Act "to provide for an additional, limited exception to the provision prohibiting a State or local officer or employee from being a candidate for elective office."  (September 12, 2008)

Senator Tom Coburn

Missing in Action:  AWOL in the Federal Government.  (pdf)  (August 25, 2008)

Federal Acquisition Institute

Report:  Annual Report on the Federal Acquisition Workforce  Fiscal Year 2007.  (pdf, 965K)  (May 2008)

House Armed Services Committee

Report:  Deploying Federal Civilians to the Battlefield:  Incentives, Benefits, and Medical Care.  (5.35MB, .pdf)  (May 1, 2008)

Chief Information Officers Council

Report:  Information Technology (IT) Workforce Capability Assessment.  (MS Word) (1.6MB) (March 1, 2008)

Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

Hearing:  Subcommittee hearing on Building and Strengthening the Federal Acquisition Workforce (February 14, 2008)

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