Information Technology (IT) workforce management functions within the Department of Defense and the Federal Government are addressed in three key areas of legislation. Title 40, United States Code, Section 11315 codifies the roles and responsibilities of an agency Chief Information Officer (CIO) that were originally addressed in the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996. Described within those duties are key personnel responsibilities which include an annual adequacy assessment of the knowledge and skill requirements established for agency personnel in information resources management (IRM); an assessment of whether the positions and personnel at the executive and management levels of the agency meet those IRM skill and knowledge requirements; and the development of strategies and specific plans for hiring, training, and professional development to rectify any deficiency in meeting those requirements.
Section 209 of the E-Government Act of 2002, Public Law 107-347, describes the information technology training and workforce development requirements established for federal agencies. The Department of Defense, as an Executive Agency, is required to establish and operate an IT training program developed to rigorous standards, having curricula covering a broad range of IT disciplines to meet specific DoD IT and IRM requirements, and designed to deliver course content in the most efficient means possible. Further, as members of the Federal CIO Council, DoD and its federal agency counterparts are charged with oversight responsibility for IT workforce development. The Office of the DoD Deputy Chief Information Officer is represented on the Federal CIO Council IT Workforce Committee and works with both the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to influence the development and implementation of government-wide policy initiatives which enhance both DoD's and the rest of the Federal Government's IT workforce capabilities.
The Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) of 2002 established training and reporting requirements for members of the IT workforce who are responsible for protecting information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification or destruction. These individuals, DoD's Information Assurance (IA) workforce, will be identified and have their certification requirements tracked in order to comply with the requirements promulgated under sections 3544 and 3545 of title 44.