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NASA Workforce: Briefing on National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Use of Term Appointments

GAO-08-920R Published: Sep 10, 2008. Publicly Released: Sep 10, 2008.
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Congress expanded the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) ability to use term appointments to fill civil service positions in 2004. NASA sought this flexibility to ensure that it could hire and retain the workforce it desired. In a joint explanatory statement accompanying the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008 (Pub. L. No. 110-161), Congress asked us to review NASA's use of term appointments for civil servant positions. We briefed the committees on the results of our review. This report summarizes that briefing. As agreed to by the committees, this concludes our work performed under this mandate.

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