Growing and Retaining AI Talent for the United States Government
This tackles a workforce problem for the U.S. government and its contractors, but it is incremental as it focuses on existing strategies like cultural adjustments.
The paper addresses the challenge of acquiring and retaining AI talent in the U.S. Federal Government, proposing that cultural changes can help grow and retain current talent to mitigate this issue.
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning have become transformative to a number of industries, and as such many industries need for AI talent is increasing the demand for individuals with these skills. This continues to exacerbate the difficulty of acquiring and retaining talent for the United States Federal Government, both for its direct employees as well as the companies that support it. We take the position that by focusing on growing and retaining current talent through a number of cultural changes, the government can work to remediate this problem today.