The program will address health and socioeconomic inequalities that were illuminated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The U.S. Digital Service recently piloted pass-fail assessments of applicants against IT job requirements at the Department of Health and Human Services and National Park Service.

There will be 3.4 million unfilled skilled technical jobs nationwide by 2022, including IT and cybersecurity positions critical to government.

Civil service staffing for IT positions declined 6.3% through May 2018, according to an Office of Inspector General report.

The department is looking for current employees who have served in leadership roles and want to lead its information technology community.

The new process will offer market-sensitive pay across the board and enable the department to make job offers more quickly, such as at tech conferences.

The trade association and the Trump administration say they want to improve the skills of hundreds of thousands of IT workers nationwide.

The CXO professional development program is open to federal employees GS-9 through 13, if nominated by their supervisor for their leadership potential.

The Office of Personnel Management released a new set of tools Wednesday in its ongoing effort to reskill federal employees as technologies like robotic process automation and artificial intelligence begin to displace people from their current jobs. The emphasis of OPM’s latest effort is the blending of technological know-how with social skills. “Federal workers can be upskilled to high-value work that