Defense Space Activities: Management and Guidance Performance Measures Needed to Develop Personnel.

From: General Accounting Office Reports & Testimony | Date: January 1, 2006 | Copyright information

GAO-05-833 September 21, 2005

The Department of Defense (DOD) employs space to support critical military capabilities and funding for space is about 5.4 percent of DOD's budget. In 2001, the Space Commission noted that DOD needs a force composed of educated, motivated, and competent personnel, but DOD was not yet on course to develop the space cadre the nation needs. DOD has a defensewide space human capital strategy and implementation plan and an Executive Agent for Space responsible for space planning, programming, and acquisitions. Congress required two GAO reports ...

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