RELATED July 03, 2025 Partnership for Public Service’s public comments on OPM’s “Suitability and Fitness” proposed rule June 23, 2025 Mad Money: The public believes the Trump administration’s cuts to the federal government will harm the U.S. economy and make the country less safe June 23, 2025 Public Service Leadership Model Pocket Guide Back to Reports Homeland Security: Winning the War for Talent to Win the War on Terror July 31, 2002 Underlying the current debate over the proposed Department of Homeland Security is a shared understanding that our domestic security hinges on the present and future quality of the new Department’s workforce. The urgent need for better workforce management tools springs not only from the critical nature of the new Department’s mission, but also from the daunting recruitment and retention environment that the new Department will face in the economy of the 21st century. The remainder of the report details the successes that government agencies have already enjoyed in using experimental flexibilities to meet those challenges and the Partnership’s recommendations based on that history and its own research. Download (161k)