At the VA’s Office of Information and Technology (OIT), Chief Strategy Officer Nicole Gilbride stood up a personal pronoun project over the last year to help the agency’s LGBTQIA+ community feel safer.
Gilbride said that from a technology standpoint, it was actually pretty impressive. Her team at OIT was able to deploy a pilot in less than 30 days, and in just 60 days they went from an idea to a pilot to a solution…
Jessica Berrellez [executive officer at FDA’s Office of Digital Transformation] said Project Elixir is a “monumental shift” in how the FDA is hiring and paying its technology workforce.
“We are shifting to a new hiring authority that will give us direct hiring capabilities as well as a new pay structure,” Berrellez said. “This is really going to help to give us more of a competitive advantage in hiring and retaining the top tech talent that we need to drive all of our modernization work forward.” … Read the full article here.
