Figure 3: Illustration of Principles for Determining Critical Skills and Competencies: NHGRI's Workforce Planning:
NHGRI has identified the organizational capabilities it needs to achieve its goals in the human genome project. About every 5 years since 1990, the agency has developed new strategic goals for the project and identified the general organizational capabilities needed to meet these goals. For example, based on the advice of federal and nonfederal managers, scientists, and other stakeholders, the agency has consistently determined it needs the capability to (1) develop and use state-of-the-art genetic analysis techniques, (2) create and manage very large databases of genetic information, and (3) explore the ethics of developing detailed genetic maps of people. However, as the science has matured, NHGRI has increasingly emphasized the capability to develop medical applications of genetic discoveries. As research priorities have changed, NHGRI has also identified and developed the inhouse capability to provide and manage financial grants to support pre- and postdoctoral researchers at universities and for its own in-house research program.
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