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Cyber

GAO Finds Agencies Miscategorizing IT Positions Of Federal Workforce

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, March 12th, 2019

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GAO Finds Agencies Miscategorizing IT Positions Of Federal Workforce

Federal agencies are misstating work roles for a portion of their information technology (IT) workforces, making it difficult for them to better understand their critical personnel needs, which is necessary to help them plan to fill these needs, in particular for cyber security expertise, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) says in a new report. A 2015 law requires agencies to “identify and categorize all of their IT and cyber-related positions,” says the report on the federal cyber security workforce. “However,…

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