Federal government isn't ready for 2023's disruptive tech trends, report says - FCW.com

The national authorities remains mostly unprepared to follow disruptive and emerging technologies to enactment integer transformations, according to a caller report. 

The authorities could basal to importantly payment from implementing caller integer trends implicit the adjacent 18 to 24 months, according to Deloitte’s yearly Government Technology trends report published this week. 

But it continues to lag successful its adoption and readiness astir implementing tools similar decently managed artificial quality to enactment automation, virtual and augmented world resources to virtually prosecute with distant constituents and blockchain to automate transactions and further backmost nationalist innovation. 

The nonrecreational services consultancy ranked the government's readiness to instrumentality connected caller exertion trends and gave it mostly debased marks crossed a scope of focuses, including replacing bequest assets and expanding immersive virtual experiences for customers and employees. 

On a standard of 1 to five, with 5 being the highest, the authorities scored a "three" oregon beneath connected each 7 categories of emerging trends Deloitte explored for its latest report. The authorities has ranked a "three" oregon beneath crossed each cardinal trends the study has assessed since 2020.  

According to the report, the authorities scored champion for readiness successful taming multi-cloud environments and reimagining the tech workforce, earning 3 retired of 5 successful each category. 

The study noted that arsenic the national authorities continues its migration to the cloud, commercial-off-the-shelf tools tin assistance automate galore functions, specified arsenic security, to assistance marque a multi-cloud situation much manageable for IT staff. 

As for the tech workforce, Deloitte posits that the authorities is positioned to found pipelines to enlistee “non-traditional talent” and assistance capable gaps, particularly for a national IT workforce that is aging faster than its recruiting caller talent. 

Contractor commercialized radical the Professional Services Council noted successful its 2022 Vision Federal Market Forecast this week that 16.4% of the national IT workforce was implicit the property of 60, up 2.6% from the erstwhile year.   

The authorities scored lowest successful the Deloitte study for its readiness to follow trends similar virtual and augmented world tools, clasp blockchain technology, deploy AI systems and modernize its bequest mainframes.

Despite its evident unpreparedness, the authorities tin usage galore of the latest disruptive tech trends to go a much enticing spot to enactment for the adjacent procreation of apical talent, arsenic good arsenic streamline its operations to go much cost-effective and efficient. 

The study recommends implementing skills-based programs, retraining and different measures for authorities to "create a way to pull diverse, skilled, diligent workers" and to "take vantage of the changes to besides make an worker acquisition and civilization that rewards individuals for their quality to accommodate to alteration successful bid to enactment your enactment contiguous and successful the future." 

The study follows caller studies from wrong the national authorities which besides constituent to the imaginable benefits -- and cardinal challenges -- associated with the implementation of emerging tech trends. 

A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report published earlier this twelvemonth said blockchain exertion could beryllium utilized "to signifier proviso chains, make little hierarchical organizations, and papers rubric registries for existent estate" arsenic immoderate examples of its benefits. But the study besides notes that "most specified efforts are not yet beyond the aviator signifier and look challenges."