"After dissolving several federal tech modernization units and shedding large numbers of technologists, the Trump administration has launched a new talent recruitment initiative, suggesting it still needs people to help drag the government's IT into the present. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) on Monday announced the establishment of the US Tech Force, an initiative it describes as a "cross-government program to recruit top technologists to modernize the federal government.""
"Those tech modernization initiatives are mostly gone thanks to Elon Musk's DOGE, which the billionaire recently admitted was only "somewhat successful" and not something he'd do again, as are many of the career tech professionals that worked at those agencies, and on now-stalled modernization projects that may not be continued under new management. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, for example, had hundreds of staff slashed early in the Trump administration, including a 100-strong red team."
OPM established the US Tech Force as a cross-government program to recruit top technologists to modernize federal information technology. OPM describes the Tech Force as distinct from prior efforts such as the US Digital Service and GSA's 18F, citing differences in mandates, structure, skill sets, and ability to convert to the competitive service. Many prior tech modernization units and career technologists were eliminated under DOGE-era changes. Elon Musk described DOGE as only "somewhat successful" and unlikely to be repeated. Significant agency IT staff reductions followed, including hundreds cut at CISA and about 2,000 IT positions lost at the IRS, hindering ongoing modernization projects.
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