The officials who built the Department of Homeland Security’s new cybersecurity talent management system acknowledge that there were times when the development process seemed long to them too.
The initiative was nearly seven years in the making. The new system, known as CTMS, officially went live in mid-November, and the department is now accepting applications.
Congress gave DHS the authority back in late 2014 to design its own talent management system — one that’s exempt from many of the government’s traditional competitive hiring, classification and compensation practices — for cybersecurity positions.
“We took the bold, brave step of completely walking away from OPM’s classification, OPM qualifications, the General Schedule, the way that we do pay, everything,” Angie Bailey, chief human capital officer for the Department of Homeland Security, said in an interview with Federal News Network. “We walked away from all of that and we said, ‘Congress gave us a blank sheet of paper. Why don’t we take that blank sheet of paper, and why don’t we, from scratch, actually build something that’s going to last, not just for today, but way, way into the future?'”
New employees hired under the DHS cyber talent management system will join what’s known as the “cybersecurity service.” They department will recruit, hire, pay and promote cybersecurity talent in different ways from their colleagues on traditional General Schedule.
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