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Slashdot: Biden Launches US Digital Corps To Bring Young Tech Talent To Government

Biden Launches US Digital Corps To Bring Young Tech Talent To Government
Published on August 31, 2021 at 09:00AM
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Fast Company, written by Mark Sullivan: On Monday the Biden administration announced a new program, called the U.S. Digital Corps, designed to attract young tech talent to roles in the government. The Corps offers early-career technologies a chance to get engaged in government via a two-year fellowship focused on major Biden administration priorities, including coronavirus response, economic recovery, cybersecurity, and streamlining government services. The program will begin by recruiting 30 people with skill sets in software engineering, data science, design, cybersecurity, and other critical technology fields this fall. It'll place them in one of five agencies -- the General Services Administration (GSA), Veterans Affairs, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau -- where they'll start work in 2022. Only 3% of the government's workforce is under 30 years old, says the GSA, which will handle the recruiting. And only a quarter of the current workforce are women. The GSA says it'll hire a diversity of people for the Corps to help even out those ratios. The program will recruit from "leading undergraduate programs," as well as from "alternative training pathways" such as apprenticeships, bootcamps, and certificate programs. [...] The U.S. Digital Corps is a collaboration between GSA, the White House Office of Management and Budget, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Office of Personnel Management, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. It's the "first and only government-wide, technology-specific recruitment program for early-career Americans," says the GSA in a press release.

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