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Kupor: OPM Is Implementing Forced Curve Ratings Across Federal Government
“We're doing this in our, in the, across the government is you have to kind of effectively legislate you know, effectively a force curve in order to change this behavior. So you have done that at senior levels of the organization. Yeah, we're doing it. We're do…”
Kupor: 70-80% of Federal Employees Receive Top Ratings, Only 0.2% Fail
“In the government, if you look across, you know, government for long periods of time, about, like, you know, 70, 80% of people get ranked a four or five, meaning, like, 70, 80% of the people are well above, like, average, basically, and Literally, like, 0.2% o…”
Kupor: OPM successfully dissolved 42-year federal hiring test consent decree
“And literally that consent decree existed until about three months ago when we kind of went back to the original plaintiff in that case, actually, who was still alive. And we were able to actually get to a resolution where we got ourselves out of that consent …”
Kupor: Federal government relied on self-attestation without skill tests for 42 years
“Literally for like 42 years basically the government did away with any form of test, not just like that pace test, which was kind of a, an aptitude test and a leadership test, but also any kind of like Functional tests... We literally relied on self-attestatio…”
Kupor: OPM Is Eliminating Degree and Tenure Requirements in Federal Job Classifications
“And so if we, and we're doing this, by the way, we're going to go eliminate all those requirements in the job classifications so that we can at least hire people at the level that's appropriate for their skills.”
Kupor: Government Cannot Cut Its Way to Deficit Neutrality Without Growth
“No matter how much we cut, and I think there's a lot of ways to cut, you can't cut your way to deficit neutrality in the government, basically. You can only solve this problem through growth, so we have to get to, like, three plus percent GDP growth”
Kupor: Only 7% of the federal workforce is under age 30.
“We've got about seven percent of the workforce in the federal government that is early career. And so I'm not supposed to say, you know, ages, but let's call it under the age of 30 is the way to think about it. And that compares with about, like, 22% in the no…”
Kupor: Government faces massive retirement cliff over next 10 years
“We're gonna, like, retire out a ton, ton of people over the next 10 years, and we're doing nothing to actually replace them with people who are modern, Understand new technology.”
Kupor: Tech Force aims to recruit at least 1,000 engineers into government
“TechForce is basically, ah, a ambitious project to recruit at least a thousand engineers into government.”
Kupor: Susie Wiles helped navigate White House policy to launch Tech Force
“I'm super grateful that we've had the sponsorship of Susie Wiles on this, who, you know, kind of has really helped us kind of navigate kind of through all the various, you know, things you have to do to get these policies through on the other end”
Kupor: Airbnb's Joe Gebbia redesigned the OPM retirement application with four people.
“Joe literally took a team of two killer engineers and like two great design people, and it's completely redesigned our retirement application, but it worked partly because we had killer people like Joe and team, but also because it was set up organizationally …”
Kupor: Tech Force is partnering with about 25 tech companies including Palantir
“We're partnering with about 25 of, you know, the best technology companies, obviously companies that you know well, like Palantir and Anvil and others.”
Kupor: Marc Andreessen connected him to Trump transition chair Howard Lutnick
“The truth of the matter is, you know, like I sent Mark and Ben an email when they were getting more involved in the campaign last summer, and I was like, hey, like, you know, if Trump wins and there's something that's interesting that works out, I'd love to at…”