AT&L Human Capital Strategic Plan v 3.0

Our workforce today is highly experienced, well educated, and well trained. However, we face very serious demographic challenges and potential talent shortages as we move to the future. In this environment, we must have comprehensive enterprise and specific component human capital plans to mitigate these challenges. If not effectively addressed, they will have a detrimental impact on the responsiveness and quality of our acquisition outcomes that support the national security mission. We need innovative approaches to improve our human capital strategic programs. In this regard, I am pleased to introduce Version 3.0 of the ATL Human Capital Strategic Plan. The first version of the ATL HCSP, published in June 2006, was created to help us understand and initiate strategies to address evolving global, national, federal, and DoD workforce challenges. We virtually leaped over a version 2.0 because of the substantial breakthroughs we have made since we started initiatives like benchmarking, outreach, and Data Green, under our governance boards and networking sessions. This version 3.0 incorporates the original five goals from version 1.0 and adds an additional goal entitled Recruit, develop, and retain a mission-ready workforce through comprehensive talent management. Assigning a separate goal provides the means to emphasize the importance of recruiting, developing, and retaining capable and motivated personnel to address the increased level of competition for talent.