{"id":17132,"date":"2018-10-15T14:24:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T14:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/10\/15\/dod-cio-government-lacks-interventions-with-future-workforce\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T04:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:46:08","slug":"dod-cio-government-lacks-interventions-with-future-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/management\/2018\/10\/15\/dod-cio-government-lacks-interventions-with-future-workforce\/","title":{"rendered":"DoD CIO: government lacks \u2018interventions\u2019 with future workforce"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Government has a problem: a majority of the workforce is closer to retirement age than to the beginnings of their careers, and agencies need to figure out how to attract young talent to replace those that will leave the workforce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the Department of Defense Chief Information Officer Dana Deasy<\/a>, government needs to work on its intersections with students and potential workers so that they see government as a potential option for them in their careers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cImagine today if every young engineer, computer scientist, whatever the degree is … imagine if they thought government\u2019s an option for them. Imagine the senior person who has been in industry for a number of years and they say there\u2019s one last role I\u2019d love to do before retiring and that role would be government,\u201d said Deasy, speaking Oct. 15 at the ACT-IAC Imagine Nation ELC 2018 conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cProbably that\u2019s hard to imagine today, to think about every young kid putting government up as a consideration, the person in their career for some time now taking a change with their career path into government, or somebody who\u2019s purposefully designed their career to make sure at some point they can step into a government role.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t