The Trump administration on Monday kicked off an effort to find about 1,000 technology specialists interested in joining the federal workforce for two years of intensive development work.
“The US Tech Force is recruiting an elite corps of engineers to build the next generation of government technology,” the new program announced on its website. “Backed by the White House, Tech Force will tackle the most complex and large-scale civic and defense challenges of our era – from administering critical financial infrastructure at the Treasury Department to advancing cutting-edge programs at the Department of Defense – and everything in between.”
The program comes in the wake of a months-long campaign waged by the Trump administration to reduce the size of the federal workforce, a project that likely worsened the chronic lack of sophisticated tech talent available in the government.
“We have some resources, but certainly it’s an area that we need to build out more,” said Scott Kupor, the director of the Office of Personnel Management, per The New York Times.