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The Senior Executives Association points out the non-SES portion of the federal workforce is 18% black, but the SES is less than 11% black.
Improvement may come more from individual self reflection than in some grand gesture.
Another senior Pentagon official is resigning. Katie Wheelbarger, the acting assistant secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs submitted her letter of resignation on Wednesday.
The State Department has recognized diversity challenges across multiple administrations, but GAO has reported on the same workforce challenges for the past 30 years.
Joe Paiva, a retired Army officer and former CIO at the Commerce Department’s International Trade Administration, offers federal and industry executives some ideas for making hiring more equitable and less unintentionally biased.
Diversity is only half of the agency's upcoming workforce strategy. Mirembe Nantongo, one of the State Department's deputy assistant secretaries in the Bureau of Global Talent Management, said the other half focuses on inclusion.
The workforce at the Department of Homeland Security is more diverse than most other federal agencies, but the agency struggles to retain those employees for future leadership positions.
In today's Federal Newscast, a new report from the Government Accountability Office shows that while diversity has increased among workers at the State Department overall, that has not been the case for upper level managers.
In effort to foster a more diverse and inclusive workforce, the Coast Guard is also developing a new certification program to create "diversity and inclusion practitioners" across its leadership cadre.
We are more diverse nationally, but the 4th of July brings us together
Jothi Dugar, the NIH’s clinical center’s chief information security officer, said she is using the agency’s Diversity of Science effort to increase the number of women in cybersecurity.
Agencies face an uphill battle competing with the private sector to recruit top cyber talent right out of college or advanced degree programs, but the State Department, and the opportunity to explore new cultures, serves as an enticing lure to recent graduates to federal service.
Not everyone is seeing an even distribution when it comes to women in federal IT. Some areas of technology remain a boys’ club.
Ahead of Public Service Recognition Week, the federal community will remind Americans that the employees who serve them are a diverse group of people who live and work throughout the country.