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GAO-03-264R 1 (2002-11-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptapev0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 November 15, 2002 The Honorable Dana Rohrabacher Chairman The Honorable Bart Gordon Ranking Minority Member Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics Committee on Science House of Representatives Subject: Human Capital Legislative Proposals to NASA's Fiscal Year 2003 Authorization Bill You asked us to provide additional comments on several issues relating to the July 18, 2002, hearing held by your Subcommittee on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's workforce and management challenges. Basically, these issues are associated with NASA's proposed legislative provisions for additional flexibilities and authorities to help it address its human capital challenge. I am pleased to submit the following comments for your consideration. 1. You and the NASA Administrator recognized that it would require five to seven years for NASA to transform its workforce and meet the goals of its Strategic Human Capital Implementation Plan. Does NASA's Strategic Human Capital Implementation Plan include an appropriate set of goals and a sound strategy for addressing NASA's human capital challenges? Do you have any recommendations that would strengthen this plan? Because our work has not entailed a detailed analysis of NASA's Strategic Human Capital Implementation Plan, we are not in a position to report on the appropriateness and soundness of the goals and strategies at this time.' However, in response to your question, we observe that NASA's Strategic Human Capital Implementation Plan contains a number of goals and strategies, as well as specific improvement initiatives that the agency is implementing or is committed to implementing. The goals, strategies, and improvement initiatives are organized under 'The focus of our work to date has been following up on NASA's actions to respond to its shuttle program workforce challenges. GAO-03-264R NASA Human Capital Flexibilities

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