Matthew Cornelius, Executive Director of the Alliance for Digital Innovation

The Federal CIO Council’s “Future of the Federal IT Workforce Update” report highlights several critical recommendations that agencies should embrace to upskill and reskill the current IT workforce, recruit and more seamlessly hire new talent in the Federal government, and ensure stronger partnerships between Federal employees and industry. In particular, ADI applauds those recommendations focused on requiring subject matter experts are involved in the hiring of technical talent and ensuring that training of the extended IT workforce – which includes acquisition professional who procure agency technologies – are aligned to industry best practices. ADI’s continues to support all creative efforts, including many of those ideas highlighted in this report, which will foster stronger partnerships between Federal employees and innovative commercial technology companies so that they can collaborate more effectively drive IT modernization further, faster across the government.