Modernizing the nuclear security enterprise : strategies and challenges in sustaining critical skills in federal and contractor workforces : report to the Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, U.S. Senate.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

United States. Government Accountability Office

Contributor:

Aloise, Gene

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. National Nuclear Security Administration--Personnel management--Evaluation.

United States.

United States. National Nuclear Security Administration.

Employee retention--United States.

Employee retention.

Government contractors.

Public contracts--United States--Personnel management--Evaluation.

Public contracts.

Nuclear weapons--Security measures--United States.

Nuclear weapons.

Nuclear weapons--Security measures.

Personnel management--Evaluation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (i, 39 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Strategies and challenges in sustaining critical skills in federal and contractor workforces

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Govt. Accountability Office, [2012]

Summary:

NNSA has primary responsibility for ensuring the safety, security, and reliability of the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile. NNSA carries out these activities at three national labs, four production sites, and one test site, collectively known as the nuclear security enterprise. Contractors operate these sites under management and operations (M & O) contracts. The enterprise workforces often possess certain critical skills that can only be developed through a minimum of 3 years of experience working in a secure, classified environment. Because NNSA could have difficulty maintaining the critically skilled workforces necessary to ensure the safety, security, and reliability of the nation's nuclear weapons, GAO was asked to examine: (1) strategies NNSA and its M & O contractors use to recruit, develop, and retain critically skilled workforces; (2) how NNSA assesses the effectiveness of these strategies; and (3) challenges in recruiting, retaining, and developing this specialized workforce and efforts to mitigate these challenges. GAO reviewed NNSA's and its M & O contractors' human capital documents and interviewed officials. GAO recommends that NNSA consider developing standardized definitions for human capital metrics across the enterprise to ensure NNSA and its M & O contractors gather consistent contractor data.

Notes:

Title from cover screen (viewed on May 1, 2012).

"April 2012."

Includes bibliographical references.

"GAO-12-468."

OCLC:

792896895