Acquisition Workforce Growth and Recommendations for Insourcing

The Deputy Secretary of Defense and the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics USDATL, in an effort to grow a highly-skilled acquisition workforce, requested the Defense Business Board form a Task Group to identify smart strategies for increasing the acquisition workforce, including policies and plans that will help bring previously outsourced jobs back into the Department of Defense DoD. The leadership asked the Board to provide best practice recommendations that support the Departments insourcing strategy. They also asked the Task Group to carefully consider how the Department can best rapidly acquire and preparetrain the talent it seeks in order to prevent pitfalls that might lead to unintended gaps in expertise and quality. The Task Group also considered the impact an insourcing strategy will have on the existing contractor bases ability to support DoD throughout the transition. A copy of the official Terms of Reference TOR may be found at Appendix A.