New Acquisition Workforce Report Shows Number of Contracting Professionals Increased
Source: Office of Management & Budget news release (.pdf), June 4, 2007
According to a new report, the government continues to increase the total number of contracting professionals in the acquisition workforce. Today, the Office of Federal Procurement Policy released the Annual Report (.pdf) on the Federal Acquisition Workforce showing the government hired more than 2,600 new employees into the contracting field for Fiscal Year 2006. This hiring resulted in a net increase of about 350 people since FY 2005 and 1,200 people since FY 2000.
...... FAI has produced annual acquisition workforce reports since 1976 and all reports will soon be available at www.fai.gov.