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Navy Contracting Facing The Challenge of Building And Training A New Workforce

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Thursday, August 27th, 2009

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By Geoff Fein Just like its brethren across the Defense Department acquisition workforce, the Navy's contracting office is looking to increase its workforce while the workload continues to grow, according to a Navy official. In the 1990s, the Navy downsized its contracting workforce markedly to the point where they had half the civilian workforce as they did in the mid-1980s at Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), Jerome Punderson, director of contracts, told Defense Daily in a recent interview. "Which presented…

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