Challenges for BRAC and Aberdeen Proving Ground
From a GAO report out today. It's 25 pages long, but here are the most interesting paragraphs. C4ISR stands for Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance.
The Army is in the process of developing and implementing plans to transfer C4ISR functions from Fort Monmouth to Aberdeen Proving Ground. The Army faces some significant challenges and has started to identify mitigation strategies that, if implemented as intended, may lessen the mission-disruption risks associated with the transfer....First, the Army is facing human capital challenges in hiring a projected 3,700 federal government civilian
employees to fully reconstitute its expected workforce authorization of about 5,100 civilians
at Aberdeen Proving Ground in 2011, which includes a large number of scientists and
engineers with technical expertise. The Army expects that about 2,200 of these new
employees will not be hired until after the slated closure of Fort Monmouth and transfer of
functions to Aberdeen Proving Ground in 2011. Officials project that the workforce will be
fully reconstituted in 2016...
To help mitigate the effects of the potentially smaller and less experienced workforce at
Aberdeen Proving Ground, the Army has identified strategies, including focusing on the
highest-priority workload and deferring some portions of the C4ISR workload, temporarily
transferring some of the workload to other DOD organizations, or hiring additional
contractors.
Comments
What is the best way to finding employment opportunities at APG? I am a staffing / talent manager (HR) and am looking for opportunities at APG.
Thanks,
Posted by: Adam | September 1, 2008 3:55 PM
You should contact the folks at Fort Monmouth. Much of the hiring for future jobs at APG is still being done at Monmouth,
Posted by: bryanintimonium | September 2, 2008 12:55 PM
What is the best way to attract BRAC related office space users? Our firm is developing a mixed use development in Perryville Maryland and would like to seed the project with office.
thank you.
Posted by: doug hill | December 2, 2008 12:58 PM