Defense acquisitions
Subtitle: further action needed to better implement requirements for conducting inventory of service contract activities : report to congressional committees
Contributors: Hutton, John P.; Solis, William M.
Publisher: U.S. Govt. Accountability Office
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Washington, D.C.]
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 36
Subjects: Management; Evaluation; Defense contracts; Public contracts; Letting of contracts; Government policy; United States. Department of Defense; United States
Other titles: Further action needed to better implement requirements for conducting inventory of service contract activities; Service contractor inventories
Description: The Department of Defense (DOD) relies on contractors to perform myriad functions, which can offer benefits and flexibility for DOD. GAO's work has shown that reliance on contractors to support core missions, however, can place the government at risk of transferring government responsibilities to contractors. In April 2009, the Secretary of Defense announced his intent to reduce the department's reliance on contractors. In 2008, Congress required DOD to compile and review an annual inventory of the number of contractor employees working under service contracts and the functions and activities they performed. The fiscal year 2010 National Defense Authorization Act directed GAO to report annually on these inventories. GAO assessed (1) the approaches used to compile the fiscal year 2009 inventories and how the approaches have changed, and (2) how the inventories have been reviewed and used to inform workforce decisions. GAO reviewed guidance; compared the approaches used to develop the fiscal year 2008 and 2009 inventories; and interviewed acquisition and manpower officials from DOD, the military departments, and selected defense components. GAO recommends DOD develop and issue a plan of action to collect manpower data and, in the interim, improve its estimating approach. DOD concurred with the recommendations.
Notes: Title from cover screen (viewed Jan. 20, 2011).

"January 2011."

"GAO-11-192."

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