Number: 98-938
Title: Defense Acquisition Workforce: Issues for Congress
Authors: Valerie Bailey Grasso, Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division 
Abstract: This report discusses recent congressionally mandated reductions in the Department of Defense (DOD) acquisition workforce. It reviews DOD's varied efforts to define who belongs to this workforce, and examines potential issues for Congress in identifying and downsizing, the workforce. It includes defense acquisition workforce definitions and estimates by the Congress, General Accounting Office, and various defense management reports. Consequent issues for Congress are identified. Congressional action concerning the defense acquisition workforce was taken in the FY1999 defense authorization and appropriation bills.
Pages: 20
Date: Updated March 11, 1999