Suzette Kent, federal chief information officer and a 2019 Wash100 award winner, said she believes artificial intelligence could result in the creation of jobs amid concerns regarding its potential impact on the workforce, FCW reported Thursday. "We know for a fact that we are creating more jobs in the data space, in the computational sciences spaces, and the design spaces," she said Wednesday at a Bipartisan Policy Council-hosted panel discussion.
Read More »DOE Cyber Nominee Karen Evans Talks Priorities at Senate Panel Hearing
Karen Evans, the White House’s nominee to head a new cybersecurity office at the Energy Department, has said she plans to address the cyber skills gap at DOE once confirmed, Federal News Radio reported Tuesday. “If I’m confirmed, DoE could really lead the way through a lot of innovative approaches to identifying …
Read More »NIST Invites Govt, Industry Participation in New Cyber Education Working Group
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is inviting interested government, academic and corporate personnel to become part of a new working group under the agency-led National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education. NIST said Thursday the NICE Working Group seeks members to identify new strategies to address the cybersecurity skills gap in the U.S. …
Read More »GAO Calls for Improvements in Human Capital Management
The Government Accountability Office has called on the Office of Personnel Management and other federal agencies to make some improvements to the General Schedule classification system and other key areas of human resource management. GAO said in a May 20 report that it found inconsistencies in five of the eight …
Read More »OPM Asks Federal Agencies to Take Stock of Cyber Skills Needs
The Office of Personnel Management plans to compile an inter-agency database of cybersecurity experts to help identify the government’s future skillset needs, NextGov reported Wednesday. Brittany Ballenstedt writes OPM Acting Director Elaine Kaplan has distributed a memorandum calling on federal agencies to update their lists to reflect new work definitions …
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