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The following HTML text is provided to enhance online readability. Many aspects of typography translate only awkwardly to HTML. Please use the page image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy. Many interested parties have issued reports on their findings and are conducting studies on this important planning issue. Key among them was the February 2001 report issued by the U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century, commonly referred to as the “Hart-Rudman Report”.18 It states unequivocally: “Second only to a weapon of mass destruction detonating in an American city, we can think of nothing more dangerous than a failure to manage properly science, technology, and education for the common good over the next quarter-century.” Another report, “The Commission to Assess United States National Security Space Management and Organization,”19 similarly warned: “Government needs to play an active and deliberate part in expanding and deepening the pool of military, civilian, and commercial talent in science, engineering, and systems operations the nation will need to maintain its position as the number one space-faring country in the 21st century.” In January 2001, the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) placed development of federal human capital on its list of high-risk issues. Fewer than eight months later, the President’s Management Agenda20 cited workforce planning and restructuring as one of five critically needed government-wide management reforms. The concern over the adequacy of the nation’s S&E workforce is an issue rising to the top of many federal and corporate agendas.
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