Excerpt from The Status of Financial Management Reform Within the Department of Defense and the Individual Services: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support of the Committee on Armed Services United States Senate, One Hundred Eight Congress, Second Session, November 18, 2004 I strongly support the need for modernizing Federal human-capital policies both within dod and for the entire Federal Government. Since April 2003, I have testi fied on four different occasions, including before this subcommittee, on nsps and related dod human capital issues.21 In the near future, we will issue a summary of the forum gao and the National Commission on the Public Service Implementa tion Initiative cohosted to advance the discussion of how human capital reform should proceed. Participants discussed whether there should be an overall govern ment-wide framework for human capital reform and, if yes, what such a framework Should include. While the forum neither sought nor achieved consensus on all of the issues identified in the discussion, there was broad agreement that there should be a government-wide framework to guide human capital reform built on a set of time less beliefs and boundaries. Beliefs entail the fundamental principles that should govern all approaches to human capital reform and should not be altered or waived by agencies seeking human capital authorities. Boundaries include the criteria and processes that establish the checks and limitations when agencies seek and imple ment human capital authorities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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