Pentagon ahead of schedule on in-sourcing, beefing up acquisition workforce

Washington Post (Censer) - The Pentagon has hired 3,400 people since the fall of 2009 and replaced about 1,400 contractors with government workers as part of an aggressive effort to strengthen its oversight of acquisitions. The department is running well ahead of schedule in its plans to add 10,000 new employees and convert another 10,000 private jobs to the public sector by 2015, said Shay Assad, the Defense Department's top acquisition policy official...Contractor advocacy groups have pushed back against the shift from contractors to government employees, but Assad said the Pentagon is going about the process fairly.