The realization of NASA’s vision and mission depends on its people. As NASA’s history has demonstrated, it is its people—highly skilled, well-trained, and led by individuals with a clear commitment to NASA values—who will assure mission success. NASA’s Human Capital Program supports and enables NASA’s mission by identifying, acquiring, aligning, and sustaining the workforce needed to meet current mission requirements, as well as the challenges that lie ahead. The 2008 Workforce Plan is the management plan the Human Capital community will use to carry out, monitor, and evaluate progress toward achieving workforce-related goals and objectives.

		The 2008 Workforce Plan updates and builds on the successes of NASA’s former Workforce Implementation Plan. The 2008 Workforce Plan captures our activities to develop an adaptable workforce; an integrated talent management model that addresses the entire employee lifecycle; and workforce analytics that can deliver strategic insight and measure success through integrated human capital systems. –Toni Dawsey Assistant Administrator for Human Capital Management and Chief Human Capital Officer Learn more…

The NASA Strategic Plan addresses NASA's strategy for achieving the Vision for Space Exploration. It identifies the strategic management of human capital as one of NASA's cross-cutting management strategies, recognizing that the Agency must develop a workforce that is flexible enough to adapt to any significant change in mission requirements.

NASA’s Strategic Management and Governance Handbook (NPD 1000.0) also recognizes the importance of human capital management, both as a key element in mission support planning and in the context of NASA’s progress on government-wide initiatives under the President’s Management Agenda.