Federal Computer Week reports that the Homeland Security Department's infrastructure protection directorate is looking to hire 621 new employees in the next 18 months to help balance its federal and contracting workforces.
Philip Reitinger, deputy undersecretary for the National Protection and Programs Directorate, told the House Homeland Security Transportation Security and Infrastructure Protection Subcommittee on June 10 that the department hopes to hire 350 additional federal workers by reducing contractor funding, and to create 71 new positions, mostly in cybersecurity. The directorate currently has 800 federal workers and about 264 vacancies. "Filling vacant federal positions and right sizing the federal and contractor staff ratio across NPPD is my utmost priority," Reitinger said.
Brittany Ballenstedt
Brittany Ballenstedt writes Nextgov's Wired Workplace blog, which delves into the issues facing employees who work in the federal information technology sector. Before joining Nextgov, Brittany covered federal pay and benefits issues as a staff correspondent for Government Executive and served as an associate editor for National Journal's Technology Daily. She holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from Mansfield University and originally hails from Pennsylvania. She currently lives near Travis Air Force Base, Calif., where her husband is stationed.
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