A bipartisan and bicameral group of legislators, including Rep. Sara Jacobs (CA-51), with Rep. Brown, Rep. Jay Obernolte (CA-23), and Rep. Pat Fallon (TX-04) as co-leads. Senator Andy Kim (D-NJ) and Jon Husted (R-OH), have introduced the AI Talent Act to enhance federal agencies’ ability to recruit and retain top AI and technical talent. The proposed legislation aims to modernize federal hiring practices by establishing specialized talent teams, enabling skills-based hiring, and providing shared tools to expedite the identification and onboarding of qualified candidates. Key provisions include: (1) to establish Agency Tech & AI Talent Teams to improve recruiting, assessments, job announcements, and candidate evaluation; (2) to authorize OPM to create a central AI and tech talent team to lead pooled hiring, provide training and support to agency hiring teams, and develop shared resources; (3) to allow subject-matter experts to develop and administer skills-based assessments to ensure candidates demonstrate real technical proficiency; (4) to enable agencies to share qualified candidate pools (“shared certificates”), reducing duplicate hiring cycles and speeding placement; (5) to create a shared online platform to reuse and customize validated technical assessments across government; (6) to phase out automated self-assessments over five years, with limited, publicly posted waivers; (7) to allow agencies to stand up additional talent teams in other high-need areas (e.g., cybersecurity, data science, health care, IT); and (8) to authorize OPM to establish additional government-wide talent teams for high-need hiring priorities beyond AI and tech.
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