Enhancing the Department's management capabilities

"In July 2009, the Defense Business Board (DBB) report, 'Review of the National Security Personnel System' (FY09-06) described how the senior civilian leadership of the Department of Defense (DoD) were unwilling and unprepared to take on the responsibilities of managing their people and measuring their peformance as required in a performance-based culture. In response to these findings, the Chairman of the DBB formed a task group to address these supervisory problems and develop a specific list of initiatives that would allow the Department to better select and develop their civilian leaders to be more effective managers of people"--Cover.