The Director of Acquisition Education, Training and Career Development within the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition Reform, in collaboration with the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Civilian Personnel Policy, asked the RAND Corporation to assist the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) and several of the defense components in formulating the first iteration of these plans and then evaluating the components’ plans. As part of this project, RAND identified, and described in this document, the critical role that corporate and line executives play in the workforce planning activity
