Over the years, recruitment and the creation of a healthy talent pipeline for national security jobs have become a concern. A changing landscape of challenges, including competition from the private sector, government shutdowns, shifts in educational priorities, and hiring freezes have complicated efforts to attract sufficient young talent with the right skillsets. In particular, the U.S. government faces significant gaps in cyber and IT talent. In recent years, there have been 16 times more federal employees in IT who are over 50 than under 30, leaving a looming talent cliff at a time when cyber and IT talent is more critical than ever. Join us for a discussion with Sherry Van Sloun, National Intelligence Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and recently served as assistant director of national intelligence for human capital at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), and Brett Hunt, the Senior Director of Volcker Alliance’s Next Generation Service Corps initiative, with over eighteen years of leadership experience in the public and private sectors, to look at how we build the national security workforce of the future and what steps we need to take now.
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