OPM is Tackling Modernization Challenges From All Angles
The agency’s CIO office is bringing people, policy and technology together.
Every agency and every office is in a different place in their modernization journey. At the Office of Personnel Management, this path has been full of challenges that Deputy CIO Melvin Brown has worked to solve through a four pillar approach in people, process, technology and learning.
Around its workforce challenges, Brown has reinvigorated an intern program to get more early-career technologists into the office and also deployed hybrid-work environment to widen the hiring net.
Brown discusses the ways the agency is modernizing with its people, tech and leadership.
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Melvin Brown Deputy CIO Office of Personnel Management
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