These are some great suggestions for much-needed reform to the tech pipeline in government. I’d add just a few more from my 6 yrs in civil service -> reform the background check process, find ways to incentivize & compete for talent, abandon outdated performance models
We lose tons of candidates with vital tech and language proficiency in the multi-year wait for clearances. It suppresses diverse talent born overseas, people who have lived abroad, and weakens the federal talent pool. You won’t hire away from tech with 2yr waits for jobs
Gov is also unlikely to ever compete directly w/ private sctr on comp, but makes up for it with mission impact. That said: folks need to eat. Decouple tech from the GS scale or scale comp to enable new tech talent to pay rent, car payment, student loans, and save for retirement
@KembaWalden created and lead The Law of Election Security, a roundtable of cyber and elections lawyers from the private sector, and state and federal governments to think creatively on how to improve laws around elections - most recently focused on legislating digital forgeries.
I was an intelligence analyst before I left government. After the intelligence failures that led to Iraq, the IC restructured its analytic tradecraft to emphasize standard evidentiary requirements, confidence language, peer review and alternative analysis 1/
This was especially important because it let the community adapt into new areas of study - without a systemic way to identify bias and groupthink, any analytic community is bound to make bad conclusions when faced with new data 2/
As the disinfo research space grows, we need to think about ways to build industry-wide analytic standards before our Iraq War moment hits. 3/