Reviewing Federal IT Workforce Challenges and Possible Solutions

PURPOSE:

• To examine the development, recruitment, and retention of the federal government’s IT and cybersecurity workforce.
• To discuss the potential for forming an industry-government rotational workforce.

BACKGROUND:

• In 2015, 209,000 cybersecurity jobs went unfilled in the U.S., according to Intel.
• Modernizing the federal government’s IT not only requires investments in technology and acquisition reform, but also in the talent necessary to identify, operate, and innovate federal IT.
• The Government Accountability Office placed cybersecurity workforce issues on the 2017 High Risk List and recommended the federal government expand its cyber workforce and training efforts.