{"id":57495,"date":"2019-01-28T02:00:18","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T02:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2019\/01\/28\/is-better-talent-management-the-key-to-government-attracting-silicon-valley\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T00:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:16:14","slug":"is-better-talent-management-the-key-to-government-attracting-silicon-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/smr\/cultural-clash\/2019\/01\/28\/is-better-talent-management-the-key-to-government-attracting-silicon-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"For tech all-stars, working at the Pentagon can be a career killer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Department of Defense has a talent management problem. The Pentagon is struggling to attract and retain talent for technology-centric jobs related to artificial intelligence, coding and software development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To exemplify this talent management issue, Josh Marcuse, executive director of the department\u2019s Defense Innovation Board, asked attendees at a November roundtable hosted by Defense News in California to raise their hand if they knew how to write a line of code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About half the hands went up. Then he asked how many with their hands up have been paid by the DoD to write a line of code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No hands went up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The DoD must identify personnel for high-tech positions, train them and allow them to use their skills in rotational opportunities, Marcuse argued, otherwise they\u2019ll walk out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Air Force in particular is looking track personnel that can speak coding languages such as Python, similar to how it identifies personnel with formal language skills such as Russian or Mandarin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before it was officially launched, the service\u2019s Kessel Run project released a solicitation for engineers and coders to join the Air Force. 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They\u2019re out of Kessel Run,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s no place for them to go, there\u2019s no flexibility on their career path and if they\u2019re lucky they\u2019re given the opportunity to be a SharePoint manager. That\u2019s the best we can offer them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jyn, another pilot program \u2014 this one under Army Cyber Command and run out of the Pentagon\u2019s Defense Digital Service \u2014 seeks to leverage top technical talent from the private sector through DDS and pair them with their counterparts in ARCYBER, Nicole Camarillo, executive director of talent strategy at ARCYBER, told Defense News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Defense Digital Service recruits individuals from the private technology sector for a limited \u201ctour of duty\u201d with the Pentagon.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/it-networks\/2019\/01\/14\/how-the-air-forces-new-software-team-is-proving-its-worth\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/4464288.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">How the Air Force\u2019s new software team is proving its worth<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The Air Force&#039;s Kessel Run project is trying to change the culture inside DoD to bring it into the modern software era.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere are a lot of complexities to the culture within the military and both properly supporting tech talent and being able to invite best practices from the private sector into military and government culture is one of the major challenges,\u201d Camarillo said. \u201cDDS was an opportunity to leverage the top technical talent they already brought in from DoD from the private sector and pair them with the top technical talent that we were identifying within Army Cyber.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marcuse said that through the Jyn program, DDS discovered someone who had \u201can extremely esoteric skill set\u201d in calibrating sensors. But beforehand, the department was unsure how to properly utilize him, and so he was assigned to count pushups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By coincidence, DDS had discovered him, and he\u2019s now developing the kinds of low-frequency devices that detect and neutralize the threat of drones that drop grenades on special operators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI think these pockets [of talent] already exist [in the DoD], we just have to identify them [and] cultivate them because the best will get frustrated and leave,\u201d Shah said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon is struggling to attract and retain talent for technology-centric jobs related to artificial intelligence, coding and software 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