Agency Comments:

We provided a draft of this report to the Secretary of Labor, the
Executive Director of PBGC, the Director of NIH, the Administrator of
GSA, and the Commissioner of SSA. Each of these organizations provided
comments on the draft report and agreed with the information presented.
DOL's Director of Workforce Planning and Diversity; PBGC's Chief Human
Capital Officer; and GSA's Program Management Officer, Office of the
Chief People Officer, also provided written technical comments to
clarify specific points regarding the information presented. Where
appropriate, we have made changes to reflect those technical comments.
NIH and SSA officials did not provide technical comments.

In addition to technical comments, GSA noted that while the report
presents a case study on workforce planning efforts of one region, GSA
has used and continues to use a robust agencywide workforce planning
process. We have clarified the report to recognize that our example is
limited to the activities of one GSA region and does not address the
agency's overall workforce planning efforts.