The U S government is faced with growing challenges to managing its facilities and infrastructure A number of factors such as shrinking budgets an aging workforce and increasing costs demand new approaches to federal facilities management The Federal Facilities Council of the NRC has sponsored a number of studies looking at ways to meet these challenges This fourth study focuses on the people and skills that will needed to manage federal facilities in the next decade and beyond The book presents a discussion of the current context of facilities management an analysis of the forces affecting federal facilities asset management an assessment of core competencies for federal facilities management a comprehensive strategy for workforce development and recommendations for implementing that strategy