Research Catalog

Title

Workforce planning in the intelligence community : a retrospective / Charles Nemfakos, Bernard D. Rostker, Raymond E. Conley, Stephanie Young, William A. Williams, Jeffrey Engstrom, Barbara Bicksler, Sara Beth Elson, Joseph Jenkins, Lianne Kennedy-Boudali, Donald Temple.

Author

Nemfakos, Charles.

Publication

Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2013.

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Additional Authors

• Rand Corporation, issuing body.
• National Defense Research Institute (U.S.), sponsoring body.

Description

xiv, 76 pages: illustrations; 26 cm.

Summary

The U.S. intelligence community has a continuing and important role to play in providing the best intelligence and analytic insight possible to aid the nation⁰́₉s leaders in making decisions and taking action. Executing this role will require unprecedented collaboration and information sharing. The personnel throughout the intelligence agencies are essential to accomplishing these tasks. The intelligence community has made significant progress during the past decade in rebuilding its workforce and developing capabilities lost during the 1990s. As decisionmakers look ahead to a future most certainly defined by constrained budgets, it will be important to avoid repeating the post⁰́₃Cold War drawdown experience and losing capability in a similar way because the consequences of such actions can be long lasting. This report chronicles intelligence community efforts over more than half a decade to improve community-wide workforce planning and management. It describes workforce planning tools that will help decisionmakers maintain a workforce capable of meeting the challenges that lie ahead, even as budgets decline. In addition, the community⁰́₉s collective efforts to take a more strategic approach to workforce planning point to a number of important considerations that serve as guideposts for the future: (1) rebuilding lost capability takes time, (2) resource flexibility is needed, (3) risk is an essential element in workforce planning, (4) systematic planning shores up requirements, and (5) the supply of military personnel is likely to decline. These lessons learned through an era of workforce rebuilding can inform resource decisions today and in the years to come.

Subject

Intelligence service > United States > Personnel management

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: ch. One Introduction -- ch. Two Intelligence Community Reform and Workforce Planning -- Intelligence Community Rebuilding -- Role of the Director of National Intelligence in Workforce Planning -- Parallels in the Evolutions of the Defense and Intelligence Structures -- Workforce Planning in Intelligence Community Integration -- ch. Three Strategic Workforce Planning -- Workforce Planning in the Intelligence Community -- Characteristics of the Intelligence Workforce -- ch. Four Understanding Supply -- Civilian Employment Plan -- Joint Duty Program -- Accounting for Core Contractors -- Military Workforce -- Summary -- ch. Five Forecasting Demand -- Workforce Demand Forecasting Methods -- Aligning Resources with National Priorities -- Base Force Concept -- Summary -- ch. Six Looking Ahead: Considerations and Guideposts -- Rebuilding Lost Capability Takes Time -- Resource Flexibility Is Needed -- Risk Is an Essential Element in Workforce Planning -- Systematic Planning Shores Up Requirements -- Supply of Military Personnel Is Likely to Decline -- In Conclusion.

ISBN

• 9780833080783 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0833080784 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2013034426

OCLC

• 856976979
• SCSB-10056401

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library