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Ensuring a Continuing Focus on Implementing Effective Human Capital 
Strategies: 

Gene L. Dodaro: 

Human Capital Management: Federal 2008: 

November 21, 2008: 

GAO-09-234CG: 

Outline: 

* Dynamics shaping the environment: 

* GAO efforts to assist upcoming transition: 

* Human Capital—Critical to meeting the nation’s challenges. 

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No Ordinary Transition: Dynamics Shaping our Environment: 

* A nation at war and facing first homeland security change; 

* Near-term and long-term economic challenges: 

- Financial Turmoil; 

- Economic Slowdown; 

- Long-term fiscal imbalance as backdrop; 

* Personnel and Performance Challenges. 

Presidential Transition Act: 

* Enacted in 1963 for an orderly transfer of executive power; 

* Provides for federal funding and disclosures; 

* Recognizes GAO as important resource. 

Transition: GAO Objectives: 

* Provide insight into pressing national issues. 

* Highlight the growing need for innovative, integrated approaches to 
solve national and global challenges. 

* Document targeted opportunities to conserve resources that can be 
applied to new initiatives. 

* Underscore critical capacity-building needs in individual agencies 
that will affect implementation of whatever new priorities are pursued. 

* Help inform the management improvement agendas of Congress and the 
new administration. 

GAO’s Transition Website: 

The last portion of the presentation was shown using the following 
website: 

[hyperlink, http://www.gao.gov/transition_2009/] 

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