Notice ID 36C24E23Q0008
This project establishes a partnership between the National Artificial Intelligence Institute (NAII) and a contractor to procure research services that help to benchmark the U.S. federal government’s hiring demand for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other emerging and disruptive skill sets. This research also contributes to the NAII’s efforts to certify and validate AI knowledge across the workforce, ultimately ensuring that AI is designed and used in ways that are effective, trustworthy, and ethical. The contractor shall draw from a database of current and historical job postings across the globe to develop a comprehensive, real-time portrait of labor market demand.
Specific tasks to be completed:
The contractor shall use an agreed upon definition of the AI workforce to identify job openings requesting skills related to AI. This definition generally classifies jobs based on job titles (e.g. machine learning engineers), skills (e.g. deep learning), and related attributes listed in job openings to identify jobs requiring AI-related expertise. The contractor would work with the NAII to forge a definition that is consistent with the way that the NAII is thinking about AI.
The contractor shall provide data enabling the investigation into key questions that include, but are not limited to, the following:
- How often does the federal government request skills related to artificial intelligence or other emerging and disruptive skill sets?
- What are the key roles in which the federal government requests artificial intelligence or other emerging and disruptive skill sets?
- How does the federal government’s demand for artificial intelligence or other emerging and disruptive skill sets differ by experience and education levels?
- How does the federal government’s demand for artificial intelligence or other emerging and disruptive skill sets compare against employers in the private sector?
- Total online job openings for AI-related jobs to gauge demand for AI skills, relative also to non-AI related jobs to normalize for overall growth.
- Projected growth (as implied by posted wages) and average salary premium by skill to pinpoint additional emerging and disruptive skill sets.
- Top skills requested by occupation to track demand for other emerging and disruptive skills across different job roles.
- Average advertised salary by job and skill to assess compensation levels across different roles and skill requirements.
- Education and experience requirements by job and skill to analyze the education and experience levels typically associated with different roles and skills demanded by employers.
The contractor shall use questions from a list created by both the NAII and the contractor as survey questions for AI baselining.
The contractor shall leverage data elements to investigate these, or related, questions including the following, broken out by the federal government and by private NAICS 2-digit sectors:
In addition to the data elements listed above, the contractor shall provide a high-level summary of key findings and data from its initial analysis of the data in a PPT presentation and document;
The contractor shall provide requisite data and analysis in well-formatted flat files;
The contractor shall collaborate with representatives from the NAII to design a white paper and, if mutually agreed upon, a jointly-authored academic article that communicate key findings and data elements from the analysis;
The contractor shall collaborate with the NAII to jointly promote the research via media outlets, social media, websites, conferences, or other mutually agreed upon channels…
