Trump Admin to Hire 1,000 for New 'Tech Force' to Build AI Infrastructure (cnbc.com)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/12/21/075239/trump-admin-to-hire-1000-for-new-tech-force-to-build-ai-infrastructure
- Source link: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/15/trump-ai-tech-force-amazon-apple.html
> The Trump administration on Monday unveiled a new initiative dubbed the "U.S. Tech Force," comprising about 1,000 engineers and other specialists who will work on artificial intelligence infrastructure and other technology projects throughout the federal government.
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> Participants will commit to a two-year employment program working with teams that report directly to agency leaders in "collaboration with leading technology companies," according to [2]an official government website . ["...and work closely with senior managers from companies partnering with the Tech Force."] Those "private sector partners" include Amazon Web Services, Apple, Google Public Sector, Dell Technologies, Microsoft, Nvidia, OpenAI, Oracle, Palantir, Salesforce and numerous others [including AMD, IBM, Coinbase, Robinhood, Uber, xAI, and Zoom], the website says.
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> The Tech Force shows the Trump administration increasing its focus on developing America's AI infrastructure as it competes with China for dominance in the rapidly growing industry... The engineering corps will be working on "high-impact technology initiatives including AI implementation, application development, data modernization, and digital service delivery across federal agencies," the site says.
"Answer the call," says the [3]new web site at TechForce.gov .
"Upon completing the program, engineers can seek employment with the partnering private-sector companies for potential full-time roles — demonstrating the value of combining civil service with technical expertise." [And those private sector companies can also nominate employees to participate.] "Annual salaries are expected to be in the approximate range of $150,000 to $200,000."
[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/15/trump-ai-tech-force-amazon-apple.html
[2] https://techforce.gov/
[3] https://techforce.gov/
Good ol' government IT (Score:1)
Let's break down how these thousand "technologists" will be tasked during their two year stint:
All of them will spend the first one or two months waiting for their super duper secure smart cards with FIPS compliant crypto. Add another month for waiting for keys/certs to be reset a couple/three times.
In the remaining time:
About 30 or 40 of them will take a month or two to do something cool and practical in a sandbox environment where it isn't actually useful in practice.
And then they will wait the remaining
Making up for all the ones they fired? (Score:3)
Does this make up for all the IT people that the Trump administration fired because firing people makes the government more fficient? Including the US Cyber command, the NSA chief, and the people maintaining the IRS computer systems?
[1]https://federalnewsnetwork.com... [federalnewsnetwork.com]
[1] https://federalnewsnetwork.com/it-modernization/2025/12/irs-moves-1000-it-employees-out-of-its-tech-shop-with-few-clear-signs-of-what-work-theyll-do-next/
no must kickback something to technology companies (Score:2)
no must kickback something to technology companies to get the job and signup for an 60+ hour work week
Guess where they're gonna work (Score:2)
[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbJ4ilDvGyc
Criminal recruitment (Score:2)
On one hand, you'll now be able to break laws with impunity.
On the other, Trump will destroy all aspects of your life, beyond measure.
Pigs at the trough.
It would have been more futuristic (Score:2)
If he called it Tech Force 2000
Very cool... (Score:4, Insightful)
Sounds like a program perfectly suited to kicking welfare in the direction of preferred corporate allies(both in terms of what tech gets adopted for federal use; and who gets to use the government payroll as an internship/evaluation program) and for ensuring that none of the departments with significant technical requirements who had their own internal expertise DOGEd to ribbons will get to regain it; instead periodically getting the Accenture Experience from a free-floating layer of loyalists who don't give a fuck because they'll be off to the private sector in 18 months anyway.
When that predictably turns out well; we can presumably grab some folksy Reagan line about how the government can't do anything right; and just directly farm out the contract to palantir or whoever.
Re: Very cool... (Score:2)
Seems like a perfect 'Big Brother' tool to find everyone that don't conform to the rules of the ruling party.
Stasi would have loved this tool.