Acquisition Challenges, 2008 and Beyond

As we head into 2008, federal acquisition faces a long list of challenges;

three of the most pressing are the workforce, oversight, and performance-

based acquisition.

Workforce

The key challenge for federal acquisition is rebuilding the workforce to

give it the right size and right skills.There simply are not enough people to

do the work, which greatly increased in volume and complexity at the same

time that the workforce was slightly declining (Figure 1). Some of those remaining

in the